FP&A & Data Analyst

Who you are

• You won't need a finance qualification or years of FP&A experience to apply
• This is a genuine route for a strong analyst who wants to move closer to the commercial heart of the business, and equally suited to someone who already combines technical and commercial finance skills
• Proficient user of Excel and SQL
• Experience building something end-to-end — a pipeline, a dataset or an automated report
• Comfortable working with data from multiple sources, and confident tracing it back to source
• Willingness and curiosity to leverage AI tools, with the judgement to know when the output is wrong
• Some exposure to management accounts, forecasting or budgeting, or a genuine appetite to learn it properly
• A growth mindset, happy to own problems and build solutions rather than wait for direction
• Experience with Python, Snowflake, dbt, BigQuery, Looker, Power BI or Tableau would be desirable
• A finance qualification such as CIMA, ACA or ACCA, or a background in commercial FP&A, would be desirable but isn't required
• Experience at a start-up or scale-up, where you had to build things yourself, would be desirable

What the job involves

• You’ll translate complex financial data into useful management information and produce annual budgets aiding long-term planning and growth
• The FP&A team is responsible for driving strategic decision making through forecasting, analysis and reporting on performance
• You'll work closely with the FP&A Manager and will also work with the wider finance team, as well as other functions across iwoca including capital markets and strategy. It's a small team, so you'll have real ownership from early on and direct exposure to senior stakeholders and the Board
• We're building a fast-paced FP&A function, powered by better data and by making the most of the tools available to us
• You'll take real ownership of that: writing the queries, building the datasets and pipelines, and helping shape our forecasting platform, while learning the financial planning side so you understand what the numbers mean, not just where they come from
• Preparation of the monthly operating model, including reconciliations to accounting software and posting of journals required to complete the model
• Contribute to and improve forecasting methodology
• Assisting in preparation of monthly Board documentation and interim and year-end Budget documents
• Liaising with departments across the business to:
• Understand business developments and how they impact inputs to the operating model
• Identify areas of inconsistencies between operating model forecasts and those used by the wider business to improve the accuracy of reporting
• Understand reporting requirements for each department to increase quality of communication across the business.
• Reporting to external stakeholders
• Writing SQL to pull, clean and reconcile financial and operational data from across the business, and building the datasets and pipelines that feed our operating model and reporting
• Finding and fixing weak points in how data reaches us, and moving reporting off manual processes and onto something that runs itself
• Contributing to the build out of iwoca's forecasting platform, designing features and using AI tools to build, test and speed up your work
• Integrating with third-party tools e.g. Looker, Snowflake and NetSuite

Benefits

• Work where you work best: Twice a year we rent houses in places like Sicily and the French Alps where each team can work together for a week poolside. We champion flexible working in all our teams
• Invest in iwoca: We want people to be invested in iwoca's success so after six months you'll be awarded share options
• Keep yourself healthy: We offer comprehensive health insurance and cash plans. You'll also get gym discounts and we host yoga classes in the office every week
• Start (and end) your day right: Each floor of iwoca HQ has a fully stocked fridge for breakfast and every Friday we unwind with beers and wine
• Life-work balance: We know your life outside of work comes first. We offer enhanced maternity and paternity leave for new parents plus a nursery benefit. We also have unlimited unpaid leave
• Learning and development: Whether you want to learn to code, experiment with motion design, or beat cognitive biases, you'll have time and budget to invest in your professional development