paddle - Senior FP&A Analyst

• Commercial Finance & Business Partnering • Build financial partnerships with key stakeholders across the business (e.g. GTM, Operations), becoming a trusted advisor to senior leaders on resource allocation, commercial strategy and investment optimisation for Marketing and Product decisions. • Drive insights from Paddle's key metrics (GMV, take rate, CAC, LTV, NRR, churn) into actionable recommendations that influence business direction. • Leverage finance insights to inform finance and business leadership of important risks and opportunities. • Support business case development for strategic initiatives such as pricing strategy, market/ product expansion and or new launches. • Partner with the Director of FP&A and the VP of Finance to support board-level reporting and strategic narratives. • Forecasting & Analysis • Support the evolution of Paddle’s planning models to bridge financial targets with operational execution, enabling our leadership team to translate cross functional insights into faster and better-informed strategic decisions. • Build and deliver management reporting and dashboards that cut through complexity—ensuring finance insights and recommendations are timely, focused, and decision-oriented. • Develop deep expertise in Paddle's transaction-based revenue model, bringing visibility to performance across customer segments, geographies, and products. • Identify opportunities to optimize unit economics and improve capital efficiency across the business. • Team Development • Bring fresh perspectives to our KPI framework and support the team in building commercial fluency. • Contribute to building a high-performing, high-EQ FP&A culture that values clarity, ownership, and collaboration. We strive for a high-impact, low-ego culture. • Represent FP&A in cross-functional projects, championing data-driven decision-making across the organization. • We'd love to hear from you if you: • Commercially astute and strategically minded - you can connect financial data to business outcomes, and you're energized by influencing commercial strategy, not just reporting on it. • An exceptional business partner - established in stakeholder management, you can translate complex financial concepts into simple, compelling narratives for non-finance audiences and build trusted relationships with senior leaders. • Technically strong in FP&A fundamentals - proficient in financial modeling, forecasting, and scenario planning, ideally with experience in SaaS, payments, or transaction-based business models. • Comfortable with complexity and ambiguity - you thrive in fast-paced scale-up environments where you're flying the plane whilst building it, navigating data quality challenges and evolving tooling (we're re-implementing Pigment). • Looking to develop the way the team and Paddle operates… and develop yourself too in the process. You enjoy mentoring others and building capability across the team. • Detail-oriented with strong executive presence - you balance precision and accuracy with the ability to zoom out and present confidently to C-level stakeholders. • Someone who does what they say, to a very high standard, consistently - you believe that this is how long term trust is built with the business. • Everyone is welcome at Paddle • At Paddle, we’re committed to removing invisible barriers, both for our customers and within our own teams. We recognise and celebrate that every Paddler is unique and we welcome every individual perspective. As an inclusive employer we don’t care if, or where, you studied, what you look like or where you’re from. We’re more interested in your craft, curiosity, passion for learning and what you’ll add to our culture. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t match every part of the job ad, especially if you’re part of an underrepresented group. • Please let us know if there’s anything we can do to better support you through the application process and in the workplace. We will do everything we can to support any accommodations needed. We’re committed to building a diverse team where everyone feels safe to be their authentic self. Let’s grow together. • Paddle Together - “None of us, is as smart as all of us” • Paddle Simply - “Simple can be harder than complex: you have to get your thinking clean to make it simple” • Paddle for others - “We can realise our wildest dreams, so long as we help enough other people to realise theirs”