ppro - Strategic Finance Manager
Requirements
• 5+ PQE CIMA / ACCA / ACA or equivalent. • Proven experience in a high-growth environment (Payments or Fintech space preferred). • Experience spanning FP&A, commercial business partnering, or investment banking. • Demonstrated experience managing month-end close processes in partnership with Accounting teams, ensuring accuracy, control, and timely reporting. • Technical Proficiency: • Advanced Excel skills with a mastery of financial modeling • Proficiency in SQL / Google BigQuery to extract and manipulate data independently. • Strong understanding of financial reporting, KPI frameworks, and business performance analytics. • Strategic Communication: Ability to distill ambiguous problems into solutions and present them confidently to senior business leaders. • Project Leadership: Ability to manage initiatives from concept through implementation, influencing stakeholders across different time zones and functions. • Analytical Rigor: A detail-oriented mindset with the ability to maintain a "big picture" strategic lens.
Responsibilities
• Strategic Business Partnering & OpEx Management • This pillar focuses on driving financial discipline, operational efficiency, and keeping the global organization on track against profitability targets. • OpEx Ownership: Lead monthly OpEx reporting and act as the core finance business partner to internal departments. Collaborate closely with the Accounting team during month-end close to ensure flawless financial accuracy. • Performance Management & Forecasting: Lead the financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting cycles for operational spend. Drive deep visibility into monthly performance against budget, proactively identifying trends, risks, and mitigation strategies. • Process Scalability: Champion a continuous improvement mindset by identifying inefficiencies, challenging legacy processes, and implementing scalable finance and reporting frameworks across cross-functional teams. • Commercial Finance, Revenue & Go-to-Market (GTM) • This pillar focuses on top-line growth, market expansion, and maximizing the ROI of our commercial engines. • GTM Strategy & Growth: Provide robust financial modeling and strategic analysis for new market entry, sales channel optimization, and marketing campaign effectiveness to accelerate sustainable revenue growth. • Revenue & Deal Structuring: Partner with commercial teams on complex deal structuring, pricing strategies, and strategic partnerships. Assess ROI, commercial viability, and long-term impacts on gross profit and revenue retention. • Commercial Incentive Management: Own the end-to-end financial design, management, and assessment of sales commission plans and incentive schemes, ensuring alignment between sales performance and corporate revenue targets. • Executive & Board Reporting: Synthesize complex commercial and operational data into clear narratives. Prepare high-impact materials for the Board of Directors and investor reports, highlighting key revenue drivers and commercial KPIs.
Benefits
• Hybrid working - We offer a hybrid structure with a 3 days / week on site expectation, so you can strike the balance between office and home working. In addition to our 28-day holiday allowance, we also provide a work from abroad policy, enabling employees to work remotely for up to another 30 days per year • Learning and Development - We offer a GBP 1,000 annual budget to support your professional growth—because investing in your development benefits us all. In addition, we provide leadership cafés, on-the-job training, and other opportunities to help you grow your skills and thrive in your role.. • Insurance - Because better safe than sorry - we want our employees to benefit from various insurances including a medical insurance (BUPA health care plan) and a 5% matching pension plan through Now Pensions. • Enhance Family Leave - We understand the importance of family - that's why we offer enhanced family leave to support you during key life moments. • Workplace Nursery Scheme - Save on childcare through salary exchange • Gym membership - PPRO helps contribute towards the costs of your gym membership, supporting your physical fitness journey while easing the burden on your wallet • Mental Health Platform - We’ve teamed up with a top well-being platform to provide one-on-one therapy, chat therapy, therapist-led courses, guided meditations, and more. • Our HQ office on Procter Street, is a short walk from Holborn, Farringdon and Covent Garden so if you’re a foodie there’s plenty nearby. The office is befitting a tech business and is set up for cross team collaboration. • Pet-friendly office- Because work is better with your paw-tners by your side • Our Principles: • We get things done: We are courageous; we take ownership, make decisions and get things done. • We act with trust and integrity: We listen first and challenge respectfully. We seek out and leverage diverse perspectives. We welcome and offer honest and open feedback, always assuming positive intent • We put the customer first: We are laser focused on delivering outstanding outcomes for our customers. We put the customer at the heart of what we do. • We make things better: We boldly explore new ideas and have an unwavering commitment to continuous improvement. • We work as a team: We collaborate closely and value team success over individual achievement.
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