Product Financial Analyst

Global Payments; Greater London; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Payments is seeking a Financial Analyst to join the Product FP&A team in London. You will support budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis for product areas, building financial models and delivering insight to drive investment decisions.

You will work with Product, Technology, and Commercial teams to interpret data, prepare governance materials, and provide commentary on risks, opportunities, and growth scenarios.

Qualifications

• Professional accounting qualification such as CIMA/ACCA/ACA is desirable.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field required.
• Experience in financial analysis, reporting, forecasting, and data management.

Responsibilities

• Support finance colleagues in working with Product leaders, preparing financial insight and helping investigate the assumptions behind business decisions.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and performance management for assigned product areas, taking responsibility for agreed inputs, analysis, and reporting outputs.
• Analyse product performance, investment spend, revenue, cost, margin, and key business drivers.
• Identify and investigate risks, opportunities, trends, and variances, preparing clear commentary and contributing to recommendations with guidance from finance colleagues.
• Build and maintain financial models and contribute analysis to business cases and scenarios for product investments, growth opportunities, and strategic initiatives.
• Support investment prioritisation, capital planning, governance, and tracking against approved business cases.
• Help prepare Quarterly Product Reviews through financial analysis, performance commentary, and supporting materials.
• Build effective working relationships across Product, Technology, Commercial, and Finance to gather inputs, understand business drivers, and resolve queries, progressively taking a more active role in stakeholder discussions.
• Prepare ad hoc analysis, modelling, and presentations to support finance colleagues in responding to senior stakeholder and executive requests.

Skills

Power BI

Financial modelling

Forecasting

Budgeting

FP&A

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Accounting/Economics

Professional accountancy qualification exposure (CIMA/ACCA/ACA)

Tools

Excel

Job description

Are you ready to write your next chapter? Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for a Financial Analyst to join our ever-evolving Product FP&A team and help us unleash the potential of every business.

You will support the Product Finance team with financial planning, product performance analysis, and investment appraisal.

Working alongside experienced finance colleagues and Product stakeholders, you will take responsibility for defined analysis and reporting deliverables, while building the commercial understanding and stakeholder skills to develop into a trusted finance business partner.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support finance colleagues in working with Product leaders, preparing financial insight and helping investigate the assumptions behind business decisions.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and performance management for assigned product areas, taking responsibility for agreed inputs, analysis, and reporting outputs.
• Analyse product performance, investment spend, revenue, cost, margin, and key business drivers.
• Identify and investigate risks, opportunities, trends, and variances, preparing clear commentary and contributing to recommendations with guidance from finance colleagues.
• Build and maintain financial models and contribute analysis to business cases and scenarios for product investments, growth opportunities, and strategic initiatives.
• Support investment prioritisation, capital planning, governance, and tracking against approved business cases.
• Help prepare Quarterly Product Reviews through financial analysis, performance commentary, and supporting materials.
• Build effective working relationships across Product, Technology, Commercial, and Finance to gather inputs, understand business drivers, and resolve queries, progressively taking a more active role in stakeholder discussions.
• Prepare ad hoc analysis, modelling, and presentations to support finance colleagues in responding to senior stakeholder and executive requests.

What you’ll bring

• Working towards, or recently completed, a professional accountancy qualification such as CIMA, ACCA or ACA.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related discipline.
• Relevant experience supporting financial analysis, reporting, forecasting, and data management.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience using data visualisation and reporting tools such as Power BI.
• Experience building or maintaining financial models, with an interest in developing business case and scenario analysis skills.
• A working understanding of FP&A processes, including budgeting, forecasting, and performance management.
• The ability to build effective working relationships, ask thoughtful questions, and develop confidence in working with stakeholders.
• Clear communication skills, with the ability to explain financial analysis and key findings to finance and non-finance colleagues.
• A proactive approach, commercial curiosity, and a desire to develop into a finance business partner, with the ability to manage agreed deliverables and seek guidance when needed.
• Strong attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high‑quality, accurate financial analysis.
• It’s a bonus if you have Previous experience using Power BI to build dashboards and support decision‑making.
• Exposure to commercial analysis or business case preparation, with an interest in understanding how financial insight informs business decisions.
• Understanding of accounting principles and financial reporting frameworks would be advantageous but is not essential.
• Experience supporting payments, fintech, or product‑led businesses, with an understanding of product performance, investment decisions, and commercial drivers.

Global Payments and Worldpay recently joined forces, and we’re currently operating across two Workday application systems.

At Global Payments (NYSE : GPN), we empower simple, fast, secure payments for everyone. And to do that, we’ve built a complete, worldwide commerce ecosystem that delivers software and services at scale to millions of companies around the world—from ambitious startups to global enterprises. Our team of 27,000 experts is dedicated to your success. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, we're a Fortune 500® company and a member of the S&P 500 with worldwide reach spanning North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Wherever you are—or wherever you want to be—we’re there, ready to support you.

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