Senior Finance & Strategy Manager

Justzapp; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Health Insurance

Extended sick pay & parental leave

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Job summary

Zapp, Londons leading premium convenience platform, seeks a Senior Finance & Strategy Manager to partner with leadership. You will own forecasting, budgeting and long-range plans, shaping pricing and subscription economics while guiding operational decisions with rigorous financial analysis.

You will lead investor reporting, support fundraising, and manage the cap table, delivering insights to drive EBITDA growth in a fast-scaling business with high autonomy.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)
• Hands-on FP&A and broader strategic finance experience
• Experience with investor reporting, fundraising or corporate transactions is advantageous
• Able to influence senior stakeholders and drive data-driven decisions
• Comfort with large data sets and advanced Excel

Responsibilities

• Own forecasting cycle end-to-end: rolling forecast, reforecasts, budget and long-range plan.
• Build and maintain scenario-based financial models informing operating decisions and strategy.
• Analyze variance against budget/forecast and translate to actionable leadership insights.
• Partner with commercial, operations, marketing and product to improve profitability and EBITDA.
• Support investor reporting, board materials, due diligence and fundraising processes.
• Manage cap table modelling and equity impact of funding rounds and option grants.
• Provide clear KPI reporting to leadership and align budgets with business objectives.

Skills

FP&A

Financial modelling

Stakeholder management

Advanced Excel

Education

ACA / ACCA / CIMA

Tools

Excel

SQL/BigQuery

Job description

Zapp is London's leading premium convenience retail platform. Founded in 2020, our vision is to disrupt the multi-trillion dollar convenience retail market, currently dominated by major players, by developing best-in-class customer-centric technology and fulfilment solutions. Zapp partners with some of the world's leading brands to deliver an exclusive range of hand-picked products 24/7, delivered in minutes.

Overview

The Senior Finance & Strategy Manager will act as a core commercial and strategic partner to leadership, combining financial planning and analysis with broader strategic finance. Reporting to the Director, Strategic Finance & Financial Control, you will turn data into decisions: owning the forecasting and budgeting cycle, driving the business towards its profitability targets, and helping to shape the analysis behind pricing, subscription and other commercial and strategic activity.

The role deliberately spans the full breadth of strategic finance, from planning and commercial analysis through to investor reporting, corporate activity and management of the cap table, giving you rare end-to-end exposure in a fast-scaling business. This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role for someone who wants real ownership from day one.

Key Responsibilities

Planning, forecasting and modelling

Own the company's forecasting cycle end to end: the rolling cash forecast, quarterly reforecasts, the annual budget and the long-range financial plan.

Build and maintain robust, scenario-based financial models that support both short-term operating decisions and long-term strategy.

Run variance analysis against budget and forecast, isolating the key drivers and translating them into clear, actionable recommendations for leadership.

Commercial finance and profitability

Partner with teams across the business, including commercial, operations, marketing and product, to drive performance against profitability and EBITDA targets and to inform strategic priorities.

Support the financial analysis behind pricing decisions, promotional activity, subscription (Zapp+) economics and unit economics, quantifying the margin impact of commercial choices before they are made.

Identify margin, mix and efficiency opportunities across the business and build the business cases to act on them.

Investor reporting and corporate activity

Support investor reporting and relations, preparing board materials, investor updates and the analysis that underpins them.

Support corporate activity including fundraising, due diligence and transaction processes, owning the financial information shared with investors and advisers.

Manage and maintain the cap table, modelling dilution and the equity impact of funding rounds, option grants and other corporate events.

Reporting and business partnering

Prepare and present clear, insightful reporting to senior leadership, surfacing the KPIs and financial metrics that matter.

Act as a trusted finance partner to department heads, aligning their budgets and plans with overall business objectives.

Requirements

Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA).

Strong hands-on finance experience spanning FP&A and broader strategic finance, gained in industry (retail or high-growth consumer experience a plus, but by no means essential).

Proven track record of building scenario-based financial models from the ground up to support both operating and strategic decisions.

Commercially and strategically minded, comfortable turning analysis into recommendations on pricing, margin, growth and strategy.

Exposure to investor reporting, fundraising or corporate transactions is an advantage.

Demonstrated ability to influence and constructively challenge senior stakeholders.

Highly motivated, confident self-starter who thrives on autonomy in a fast-paced, dynamic and complex environment.

Advanced Excel; comfort working with large data sets (SQL / BigQuery a plus).

Enjoy 25 days of holiday per year (plus all bank holidays).

Private Health Insurance.

Extended sick pay and maternity/paternity leave pay.