Finance Business Partner

Zepz; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Zepz is seeking a Finance Business Partner to drive strategic financial insights and enhance business performance. This role involves cost center management, financial reporting, and collaboration with key stakeholders to promote optimal financial outcomes in a fast-growing environment.

Benefits

Unlimited Annual Leave

Private Medical Cover

Retirement pension schemes

Life Assurance

Competitive parental leave

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a finance business partner or FP&A role.
• Strong ability to analyze complex financial data.
• Ability to work in a high-pressure environment.

Responsibilities

• Analyze financial data to track trends and generate insights.
• Enhance financial reporting and translate data into narratives.
• Partner with teams to identify trends and opportunities.

Skills

Analytical skills

Cost management

Stakeholder influence

Team collaboration

Education

Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Job description

About Zepz

Zepz Group is the group powering leading global remittance brands: WorldRemit and Sendwave. Zepz Group has been disrupting an industry previously dominated by offline legacy players by reducing the barriers to finance and increasing safety and convenience for users. Every day, Zepz Group and its brands work towards unlocking the prosperity of cross-border communities through finance and technology - driven by the vision of a world that celebrates migrants' impact on prosperity, at home and abroad. Zepz served over 9+ million users through its presence in over 4,600 corridors with over 40 send countries and 90 receive countries

Come join us!

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Our Commitments:

We act like owners - We are relentlessly delivering for our users and spending money thoughtfully.

We embrace embarrassing honesty - We function best when we're open and honest with one another - especially about our challenges and doubts.

We have a bias to action - We get to first outcomes quickly, iterate and learn.

We strive to be better - We may make mistakes, but always learn from them.

We are inclusive - to better reflect and serve our users.

As a Finance Business Partner at Zepz, you will play a pivotal role in providing strategic financial insights and partnering with key stakeholders to drive business performance. You will be responsible for managing cost centre reporting, delivering accurate forecasts, and influencing decision-making to optimize financial outcomes. This role requires a proactive, detail-oriented professional with strong analytical skills and a deep understanding of cost management in a high-growth environment.

Reporting to the Manager, you will:

• Analyze financial data to track trends, identify areas of concern, and proactively generate actionable insights to improve cost efficiency and enhance overall business performance.
• Challenge business on tracking vs budget, and ensure adherence to targets
• Enhance financial reporting and storytelling by translating complex data into clear, compelling narratives for executive leadership and key stakeholders.
• Serve as a strategic financial advisor to stakeholders, understand their goals and objectives, guide decision making and ensure financial alignment with company goals.
• Identify and implement process improvements to streamline reporting, improve forecasting accuracy, and drive better decision-making.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to analyze key business metrics, identify trends, and uncover opportunities to drive top-line growth and profitability.

What we're looking for from you

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
• Previous experience in a finance business partner / FPA role / managing cost centre budgets
• Strong ability to analyse complex financial data, identify trends, and create detailed reports that inform strategic decision-making
• A proactive team player who collaborates well with others and can demonstrate the ability to influence stakeholders
• Ability to work effectively in a high-pressure, fast-paced environment while maintaining focus on quality and deadlines

What you'll get from us
Please note that the benefits below will apply to permanent roles.

We have five core benefits for our talent in the US, UK, Philippines, Poland, and South Africa. specifically:

• Unlimited Annual Leave: Feel free to make the most of your time off and maintain a healthy work-life balance!
• Private Medical Cover: You can opt-in to a Private Medical Insurance scheme. This provides you with access to thorough medical coverage, so you can feel confident in your health and well-being.
• Retirement: We offer pension schemes to help you plan for and secure your future.
• Life Assurance: Life assurance is available to give you peace of mind and protect your loved ones in case of the unexpected.
• Parental Leave: We offer competitive parental leave schemes to ensure you are spending as much quality time with your new bundle of joy as possible.

We are also remote-first as an organisation, offering flexibility for you to work where you need to be most productive. In addition to the above, you will discover that we have a range of secondary perks (such as the cycle-to-work scheme and employee discounts) depending on your location, to help you thrive at Zepz!
Why choose Zepz?

• Our team of over 1,000 employees is fully distributed across the world. We are working from coffee shops, homes, and co-working spaces - making us one of the larger fully distributed growth-stage startups in the world but we also offer workspace in our talent cluster locations - spaces we can meet, collaborate and connect.
• We are proud parents, community organizers, farmers, band members, yoga teachers, YouTube influencers, former Olympians, and serial entrepreneurs.
• We collectively speak over twenty languages, including Akuapem, Amharic, Bengali, Ewe, Fante, Ga, Igbo, Kalenjin, Luganda, Oromo, Somali, Swahili, Wolof, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.
• At Zepz, embodying our commitments binds us together. We are collectively passionate about striving to achieve our vision and purpose - to continue to provide the best service to our users.

Ready to Apply?

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. If interested, please submit your resume along with a cover letter (optional), highlighting why your experience demonstrates you meet the requirements of the role. Please also indicate the countries in which you have work authorization.

Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. But we'll let you in on a secret: there's no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. Zepz is a place where everyone can thrive.

So however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, and if at all you might need any form of support to make the process as comfortable as possible, please let us know and give us a shot by applying. We want you to be excited to wake up to make an impact every day.

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