Senior FP&A Analyst

Over the past two year’s Pleo has been on a rocketship - like growth journey. And to keep that rocket going in the right direction, we’re looking to strengthen our FP&A team. We’re excited to be looking for someone who can provide financial insights and analysis to help us define solutions for business challenges, drive business decisions and identify growth drivers - all to help Pleo reach its ambitious growth goals.   To succeed in this role we think you will need between 3-5 years of experience in providing objective views and recommendations to help with prioritisation and capital & resources allocations - and you want to leverage this experience to drive meaningful outcomes in Pleo as an FP&A Senior analyst.

If you’d describe yourself as a collaborative finance professional with strong business acumen and analytical skills, you’re in the right place! 

In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to make a real impact on the future of one of Europe’s fastest growing FinTech Unicorns. So if all of this has got you nodding your head and feeling excited, we’d love for you to click apply and make the introduction.   The role is 12 month parental leave cover, however we will explore any options to extend the successful candidate at the end of the 12 months. 

What you will be doing?

• Owning financial models to provide senior management with the insight needed to make key decisions on business investments and strategy
• Driving historical analysis to provide actionable recommendations on ways to improve investment allocations, strategic goals and cross business alignment
• Driving communication of business performance and key insights to group management and Pleo’s board and investors by leading reporting cadences
• Taking a lead role in annual budgeting processes and in investment case assessment to drive efficient resource allocation and prioritisation outcomes
• Contributing to identifying key growth and efficiency drivers within Pleo and defining KPIs to measure these through both leading and lagging indicators
• Being a key contributor to cross team projects aimed at analysing and evaluating internal and external business dynamics and improving performance 

The hard skills needed!

• 3-5 years experience in a controlling function, strategic or commercial finance, reporting & analytics function, financial services, or management consulting
• High commercial awareness and understanding of business environment
• Strong communication skills to drive engagement with executive level management, investors and board of directors, with a high focus on attention to detail, accuracy and consistency of messaging
• Ability to operate in a fast paced hyper growth environment and manage ambiguity
• Fluent in English (spoken and written)
• Experience in either Fintech or SaaS businesses is a plus but is not required.
• Relevant qualifications such as a bachelor or masters degree in a relevant field and / or a professional accounting qualification

Show me the benefits!

• Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
• Lunch is on us - with catering in our Lisbon, Copenhagen and London offices or a monthly lunch allowance paid directly together with  your salary in other markets 🍜
• Private health insurance to ensure you’re fit in body and mind to do your best work
• We offer 25 days of holiday + your public holidays
• For our CDD team we offer flexibility/remote working options
• Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice
• Wellbeing days - fully paid days off designed for a slower pace, allowing you to take time to recharge and prioritise self-care
• We’re trialling MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and wellbeing support with great success so far  ❤️‍🩹
• Access to LinkedIn Learning - acquire new skills, stay abreast of industry trends and fuel your personal and professional development continuously 
• Paid parental leave - we want to make sure that we're supportive of families and help you feel that you don't have to compromise your family due to work 👶
• All of us have a stake in Pleo’s success - ask us about our equity grant scheme

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Why join us?

Working at Pleo means you're working on something very exciting: the future of work. Our mission is to help every company go beyond the books. Pleo itself means ‘more than you’d expect’, and it’s been the secret to our success over the last 8 years. So it’s only fitting that we’d pass this philosophy onto our customers to help them make the most of their finances.

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