FP&A Team Manager

swan.io; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holidays 27 days

Biannual retreats

Diversity & Inclusion commitment

Job summary

Swan is seeking a high-impact FP&A leader to orchestrate the entire planning cycle and translate complex financial and regulatory dynamics into executable corporate strategy.

You will lead a 2-department Finance team (FP&A and accounting) and partner with the CEO and leadership to drive profitability and strategic growth across Europe. The role emphasizes data-driven decision making and finance system modernization.

Qualifications

• 5 to 8 years of FP&A experience in a fast-scaling tech startup, B2B SaaS, or FinTech/Banking.
• Established people manager with ability to coach a team toward execution.
• Strong data literacy and advanced financial modeling skills.
• Experience implementing or optimizing modern finance stacks (ERP, EPM, BI).
• Ability to deliver clear, actionable recommendations to executives.

Responsibilities

• Lead and structure the annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, and long-range planning across all business lines.
• Manage and mentor the FP&A team with ownership and delivery standards.
• Drive business partnering with leadership to challenge performance and guide decisions.
• Own corporate reporting architecture with monthly packs, board materials, and KPIs.
• Modernize finance operations by improving systems and data flows.
• Monitor unit economics and assess margin risks in transactional flows.

Skills

FP&A experience

People management

Strategic analysis

Data literacy

Financial modeling

Finance systems

Tools

ERP systems

EPM tools

BI platforms

Job description

About

Swan is the leading European fintech specialized in embedded banking. A laureate of the French government’s selective year list of tech champions, “French Tech Next 120,” we are quickly expanding across Europe.

Over 100 European companies have already seamlessly integrated banking services such as accounts, cards, and payments into their products through our Banking-as-a-Service platform. This approach, known as “embedded finance”, empowers businesses to elevate their offerings and create new revenue streams — often times tripling their revenue!

Our founders’ vision from the beginning was Simplicity: that anyone with a fintech idea at 2 am can visit our website, start building, and buy themselves a coffee with a self-issued card the very next day. That vision has taken us far.

Following a 38M€ Series B round last September, we have been doubling our headcount and already have over 230 Swanees across offices in Paris, Bordeaux, Berlin, Barcelona, Amsterdam, and Milan! If you’re excited about joining a European fintech adventure, Swan is the way!

To learn more about us: About Swan ; Our story.

Job description

Your mission

Your primary mission is to orchestrate Swan’s entire financial planning cycle, translate complex transactional and regulatory dynamics into actionable corporate strategies, and manage a high-performing FP&A function that acts as a true co-pilot to leadership

Main Tasks

• Lead and structure the annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, and long-range planning processes across all business lines
• Manage and mentor the FP&A team, establishing deep individual ownership, clear delivery standards, and robust professional development paths
• Drive business partnering by collaborating directly with leadership team to challenge performance and support strategic decision-making
• Own the corporate reporting architecture, producing monthly performance packages, board materials, and investor relations KPIs
• Modernize finance operations by continuously improving financial systems, automated data flows, and analytical tools to reduce manual task cycles
• Monitor Unit Economics & Safeguarding risks, analyzing the margins behind transactional flows

Your team

The Finance Department at Swan is structured around two core operational pillars, both reporting directly to the CFO: the accounting (4 FTEs) and FP&A department (3 FTEs). As a central function within Swan, the Finance team does not operate in a silo. We act as a critical business partner, collaborating daily with the Executive Leadership Team to drive strategic decisions. The team interfaces heavily with all key business lines to optimize transaction flows, challenge operational budgets, and build scalable financial processes that ensure Swan’s sustainable move toward profitability

Preferred experience

You’re a great match if:

• You have 5 to 8 years of experience in FP&A with a proven track record in a fast-scaling tech startup, B2B SaaS, or FinTech/Banking ecosystem
• You are an established people manager with a demonstrated ability to delegate, run impactful 1:1s, and coach a team toward high execution standards
• You have strong strategic synthesis ("hauteur de vue"), capable of moving beyond numbers to extract key business takeaways and deliver clear, actionable recommendations to executives
• You possess strong data literacy and tool fluency, with advanced skills in financial modeling and experience implementing or optimizing modern finance stacks (ERP, EPM tools, or BI).
• Our ideal teammate: Empathetic. Skilled. Frank. We love to challenge each other, and we leave our egos at the door.

It’s okay if you don’t tick all the boxes - don’t let imposter syndrome prevent you from applying!

Swan is committed to providing a caring work environment for all employees, regardless of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, or belief.

When it comes to recruitment, we’re interested in your work experience, skills, and overall personality. Because diversity makes the workplace stronger and is necessary for Swan’s success, we are intensifying efforts to incorporate concrete actions to help us improve in this area.

About Swan

Perks of being a Swanee:

• Holidays: 27 days of paid leaves.
• Twice a year we go somewhere gorgeous (a chateau, a mountain) where we reconnect, deep-dive into big topics, and relax.
• This isn’t a perk, it should be the rule, but diversity and inclusion are important at Swan. We’re working hard to get better every day.

Our values:

Swan’s core values guide our actions daily. Individually, they may seem obvious, but together, they form a unique culture.

Simplicity: Leonardo Da Vinci said: “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” If something's convoluted or confusing, we work extra hard to break it down. - Making complex things simple is what we do.

Long Term: We always play the long game, whether it's to support our partners in their growth journey, or make tangible commitments to climate action.

Excellence: We are a team of experts who consistently go all out to create pixel-perfect banking services and exceed our partners' expectations— whatever it takes.

Be Human: We believe in the power of kindness and the importance of acting with integrity. But embracing our humanity extends beyond interpersonal interactions, it means caring about greater issues that affect our planet.

You can find out more about our culture.

Recruitment process

• A 30-min video call with our Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions
• Hiring Manager interview : Grégory (CFO) (60 min)
• Case study: Grégory and 1 FP&A Analyst
• Peer Interview: Two others Swanees
• Last interview (N+2): Camille, our CEO (60 min) to evaluate core skills