Finance Analyst

Monzo; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company in London is looking for a Financial Analyst to assist in financial planning and analysis, collaborating with various teams. Candidates should have demonstrable experience in finance and advanced Excel skills. This hybrid role offers flexibility and a learning budget for professional development.

Benefits

£1,000 learning budget

Flexible working hours

Hybrid working environment

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in finance or related field.
• Open to working towards a relevant accounting qualification.
• Ability to explain work clearly.

Responsibilities

• Assist in review and validation of opex transactions.
• Maintain cost tracking models.
• Collaborate with non-finance teams.

Skills

Experience in FP&A

Advanced Excel skills

Stakeholder management

Data visualization

Good organization skills

Education

Relevant qualification in finance

Tools

Google Sheets

Microsoft Excel

Looker

PowerBI

SQL or Big Query

Job description

🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.

We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.

With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!

We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️

About the role

We are looking for a

• Assisting review and validation of opex transactions for accuracy and correct cost allocation
• Maintaining cost tracking models (latest opex estimate), ensuring they reflect latest assumptions
• Preparing cost reviews/presentations, summarising spend to latest forecast, risks and opportunities
• Collaborating with non-finance teams to understand movements and update the opex estimate
• Contributing to the forecasting; collecting inputs, validating assumptions, and review packs.
• Assisting with the forecasting and budgeting process, consolidating submissions and checks.
• Maintaining clear cost models, documenting logic, with clear and concise outputs
• Providing supporting analysis for external audits and regulatory requests (as appropriate).
• Supporting Finance Analytics to automate manual reports into automated dashboards.
• Ensuring all meetings have an agenda, agreed actions, owners, follow ups and timelines.
• Supporting the preparation of process and training documentation within remit
• Upholding the behaviours and conduct that contribute to Monzo values and culture.

We’d love to hear from you if you have…

• Demonstrable experience in FP&A, accounting, economics, analytics, statistics or related field
• Relevant qualification or open to working towards a relevant accounting qualification
• Advanced knowledge of formulas in Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel
• Experience in business modelling, and data visualisation to support insights/storytelling
• Experience using Looker or PowerBI (desirable)
• Knowledge of SQL or use of Big Query (desirable)
• Ability to explain and present work in a simple, clear and concise manner
• Good organisation skills and stakeholder management skills (managing expectations).
• Effective at presenting in meetings with non-finance teams.
• Demonstrable initiative to improve data, processes or collaboration

What’s in it for you

📍This role is based in our London office, with a hybrid working environment with flexible working from home arrangements and some in-person attendance. We're open to distributed working within the UK (with the expectation of occasional work from our London office for key meetings).

⏰We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team.

📚£1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.

Application journey steps

1. Phone call with recruiter (30 mins)
2. Video competency based interview with 2 team members (30 mins)
3. Video presentation task and interview with 2 team members (60 mins)

Our average process takes around 3-4 weeks but we will always work around your availability. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process but if you do have any specific questions ahead of this please contact us on [e-mail]

We’ll only close this role once we have enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to make sure you don’t miss out.

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Equal opportunities for everyone

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog , 2024 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2024 Gender Pay Gap Report.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.

If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage 😊