Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

What will you do

• FP&A Analyst spends much of their time analysing operational and financial data, building vastdatabases, and preparing reports for senior management
• The key duties and responsibilities of an FP&A Analyst usually include:
• Working closely with the leadership team to formulate the business's medium to longterm financial and strategic plan
• Working with Business Unit heads to build their annual budgets and forecasts
• Producing models to project long term growth and determine the impacting business factors
• Delivery of competitor analysis, market trends and associated commentary to the Leadership team
• Analysing financial and operational results to better understand company performance
• Utilising BI tools to delivery meaningful insights into business performance
• Communicate to senior management the reasons behind the product/department performance and results
• Provide detailed analysis and commentary on cost centre results
• Reviewing operations and recommending new productivity or cost saving initiatives
• Preparing business cases to support new investment, strategic and other business decisions
• Reviewing existing processes and procedures to develop recommendations for improvement efforts
• Evaluating previous budgets, expenditures to develop and implement future budgets
• Communicating results and recommendations to senior management for improvements that will lead to cost reduction, revenue generation and streamlining operations
• Provide insights to senior management around financial modelling, forecasts and profitability

What you need to succeed 

• Significant analytical skillset, including the utilisation of BI and reporting tools
• Strong quantitative abilities
• Able to solve complex problems
• Excellent communication skills with ability to build relationships
• Strong influencing and interpersonal skills
• High level of commercial acumen
• Advanced computer software skills, including writing macros in Excel and other accounting packages
• Professional qualification such as CA or CPA or CFA

What we can offer

• You can work from anywhere you want, including flexible hours! Furthermore, we don’t promote work-life balance in the traditional sense
• Instead, we believe in work-life integration and care about results above all else
• Are you ready to wow the world? SOAX provides global opportunities to bring your creativity to fresh new challenges every day
• We're a fast-growing startup and we have big goals! You will be able to help us achieve the next milestone in our journey
• At SOAX you will thrive if you want to grow, learn, and stretch yourself. That’s why we provide learning and development budgets for courses and books
• We know money talks, so we offer a competitive salary and benefits in GBP
• Great team of enthusiasts to work with, we have a culture that emphasizes collaboration, energy, and openness so that newcomers will feel at home with us quickly
• Our onboarding process is fast-paced but still supportive