Senior Finance Business Partner

Monzo; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the fintech sector is seeking a Senior Finance Business Partner to enhance its commercial finance team in London. This role encompasses managing financial performance, strategic decision support, and building relationships with leadership, aimed at continuous improvement and strategic financial insight. Ideal candidates should possess strong financial modelling skills, analytical capabilities, and a relevant professional qualification.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Learning budget of £1,000 per year

Macbook provided

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in financial business partnering required.
• Advanced Excel/Google Sheets experience necessary.
• Experience with data analysis and forecasting tools preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage P&L and Balance Sheet to deliver the financial plan.
• Build trusted relationships with business leadership.
• Lead preparation of bottom-up forecasts.

Skills

Financial modelling

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Interpersonal skills

Presentation skills

Attention to detail

Organisational skills

Education

Relevant professional qualification

Tools

SQL

Excel

Google Sheets

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 ️

Our Finance team is growing and we are looking for a Senior Finance Business Partner to join the Commercial finance team covering our Payments and Mortgage Broking businesses. You will work in a team that manages the P&L and Balance Sheet to deliver the financial plan, helps the business to make strategic financial decisions, challenges to improve performance, and owns the end-to-end financials and financial controls for your business area. The role covers all aspect of financial performance and planning.

The right candidate will enjoy supporting and challenging the business across new initiatives, love to build business cases, present and debate investment choices and be comfortable with both digging into data to deliver insights and thinking about broader strategic choices.

• Being the single point of contact between the business and finance
• Taking end to end ownership of the P&L, balance sheet, funding and capital for that business area, working with all parts of the Finance Collective to be the single face of Finance to the business
• Building trusted relationships with the business leadership team
• Driving and optimising commercial performance through deep engagement in product / customer strategy, pricing, scenario analysis and performance analytical insights
• Holding the business leadership to account for delivery of forecast performance and helping them to course correct as well as anticipate future risks and opportunities
• Leading on the preparation of bottom-up forecasts, both short and long range, working closely with the FP&A team to support the planning and stress testing cycle
• Working with Treasury to inform customer behavioural analysis and with Financial Control on specific accounting judgement determination
• Being responsible for product level pricing model framework and ensuring pricing is in line with finance performance hurdles
• Understanding and explaining actual performance and support FP&A to create appropriate narrative
• Contributing to the overall Monzo equity story
• Supporting the build of a highly competent and motivated team of financial analysts with clear objectives for ongoing development to partner with existing and new businesses
• Leading business partnering for specific area and help represent the company’s commercial dynamics to the wider team

We’d love to hear from you if you..

• Have demonstrable experience in financial business partnering
• Are qualified with a relevant professional qualification
• Hold strong financial modelling (advanced Excel/Google Sheets) experience
• Have great analytical & problem solving skills, with the ability to identify trends, issues and recommend actions
• Hold good interpersonal & influencing skills, ability to engage across various internal functions to develop, get buy-in and deliver outcomes across teams
• Have the ability to confidently present data in a meaningful and effective way; understanding the needs of the end users and tailoring presentations to their requirements
• Have experience building strong, trusted relationships with stakeholders at all levels
• Have experience building business cases, presenting and debating investment choices
• Demonstrate ability to be hands-on and enjoy supporting colleagues, projects or tasks both big or small
• Have strong attention to detail and organisational skills, able to support with developing new processes and streamlining existing processes to create efficiencies
• Can demonstrable SQL, data analysis experience and experience using forecasting tools

What’s in it for you

This role is based in our London office

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.

We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup.

The application journey has 5 key steps:

- Phone call with recruiter (30mins)
- Video call with finance team member (30 mins)
- Video call with hiring manager (45 min)
- Video call with stakeholder (30 mins)
- Final interview with CEO (30 min)

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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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.

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