Senior FP&A Business Partner — Credit Expert

Qonto; Paris; Sur place; EUR 70 000 - 100 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A leading fintech company in Paris is seeking a Senior FP&A Business Partner - Credit Expert to manage financial performance of new credit activities. This pivotal role involves developing forecasting models and acting as a financial business partner across various functions. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in credit metrics, advanced Excel skills, and a strategic mindset. The role offers a dynamic work environment and a competitive salary package along with various perks.

Prestations

Tailor-made career track

Inclusive work environment

Competitive salary package

Meal vouchers

Public transportation reimbursement

Great health insurance

Mental health initiatives

Childcare benefits

Monthly team events

Qualifications

• Experience with credit/lending metrics and strong financial modeling skills.
• Ability to build complex forecasting models with multiple variables.
• Proven experience as a finance business partner.

Responsabilités

• Structure the new credit activities performance framework.
• Implement regular production and analysis of credit-specific financial indicators.
• Develop robust forecasting models for credit business.

Connaissances

Credit Financial Expertise

Advanced Financial Modeling

Strategic Business Partnering

Cross-functional Collaboration

Autonomous Leadership

Outils

Advanced Excel

Financial planning system

Data analysis tools

Description du poste

Our mission? Creating the freedom for SMEs to succeed in business and beyond, by delivering Europe’s leading finance workspace. We combine business-class tools (seamless invoicing, spend management, and pre-accounting) with unwaveringly attentive 24/7 support, designed to help businesses breeze through all things finance.

Our journey: Founded by Alexandre and Steve in July 2017, Qonto has rapidly gained trust, serving over 600,000 customers. Thanks to our wonderful team of 1,600+ Qontoers, we also made it to the LinkedIn Top Companies French ranking!

Values

• Customer focus — Prioritize customers in everything you do
• Ownership — Own your part, get things done
• Teamwork — Make (team)work easy
• Mastery — Continuously raise the bar
• Integrity — Always do what’s right, and respect people

Our beliefs: At Qonto, we're committed to fostering a welcoming environment where everyone can thrive. We prioritize evaluating applicants based solely on skills and potential, ensuring diversity with 55% international team members, 44% women, and 20% parents. Join us in building a workplace that celebrates diversity and individuality.

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Mission

Join us as a Senior FP&A Business Partner - Credit Expert to initiate and coordinate the financial performance management of our new credit activity. You'll be our first credit-specialized FP&A hire, building robust analysis and forecasting models and becoming the key financial business partner for this strategic area.

Impact

This role will have significant impact on Qonto's growth trajectory by enabling effective financial management and performance tracking of our credit activity, directly supporting our transformational regulatory transition into Credit Institution. You'll work closely with Marine, our VP Strategic Finance who brings 25 years of experience in various Finance roles within the payment and tech industries; she will support you in implementing this new business line financial framework.

Responsibilities

• Structure the new credit activities performance framework to track offer performance end-to-end and contribute to overall company-wide monitoring and reporting
• Implement regular production and analysis of credit-specific financial indicators (cost of capital, cost of risk, ROE,…)
• Develop robust and reliable forecasting model related for credit business, incorporating multiple scenarios and risk factors
• Establish strong relationships and act as the financial business partner for the credit activities, coordinating with cross-functional scope spanning over Product, Ops, Finance, Risk, and Compliance
• Lead budget and forecast processes for the credit activity, ensuring alignment across all stakeholders

What you can expect

Market/Team Context: You'll be joining at an exciting time as we transition into a Credit Institution, giving you the opportunity to contribute to significant business transformation in a fast-growing fintech environment. You'll work closely with our Risk and Corporate Finance (ALM) teams as primary interlocutors, alongside other functions (e.g Growth and Product teams).

Methodologies: We value structured analysis and data-driven decision making. You'll have autonomy to implement processes and coordinate in a cross-functional set-up while co-constructing knowledge with your manager. We emphasize upfront planning, quality delivery, and continuous improvement.

Tools we use: Advanced Excel modeling, financial planning system, and data analysis tools. You'll have the opportunity to enhance our toolkit as we build our credit FP&A capabilities.

Recent projects: We're currently defining new financial indicators to monitor our credit activities, improving forecasting models, and supporting the broader finance transformation initiatives across Qonto.

About your future manager / Head of

Marine brings 25 years of professional experience with a deep focus FP&A and finance transformation activities in the payment and tech industries. She's currently learning Qonto's processes and is excited to co-construct knowledge with you. Her leadership style emphasizes autonomy, collaboration, and building expertise within the team. Marine will provide you with the support and guidance needed while giving you the freedom to shape and implement the credit FP&A function.

About You

• Credit Financial Expertise: You have experience with credit/lending metrics and strong financial modeling skills. You understand the fundamentals of loss provisioning, cost of risk calculation, and credit-specific performance indicators.
• Advanced Financial Modeling: You excel at building complex forecasting models with multiple variables and scenarios. You have advanced Excel skills and ideally some experience in building data analysis models.
• Strategic Business Partnering: You have proven experience as a finance business partner with strong communication and presentation skills. You can influence without authority and translate complex financial data into clear business insights.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: You have a track record of working effectively across functions, building consensus, and coordinating complex projects with multiple stakeholders, ideally including Risk teams.
• Autonomous Leadership: You have 7 to 10 years of experience with increasing autonomy and demonstrated learning agility. You can work independently, take initiative, and quickly learn new domains while ensuring alignment with your manager.

Perks

• A tailor‑made and dynamic career track. An inclusive work environment. And so much more to help you succeed.
• Offices in Paris, Berlin, Milan, Barcelona, and Belgrade
• Competitive salary package
• Meal vouchers
• Public transportation reimbursement (part or global)
• A great health insurance (depending on the country)
• Employee well‑being initiatives: access to Moka Care to take care of your mental health and great offers for sports and wellness activities
• A progressive disability and parenthood policy (1 in 6 of Qonto employees is a parent!) and childcare benefits with selected partners
• Monthly team events

Our hiring process

• Interviews with your Talent Acquisition Manager and future managers
• A remote or live exercise to demonstrate your skills and give you a taste of what working at Qonto could be like

Find more information about our interview process on our careers website.

On average, our process lasts 20 working days and offers usually follow within 48 hours.

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