Senior Fp&A Analyst

Zen Educate Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

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Job summary

Zen Educate in London is seeking a Senior Finance Analyst / Business Partner to help scale our finance function as we move from reporting to shaping strategy. The role is hybrid in London with 2 days from home and responsibility for core reporting, budgeting, and partner to regional leaders.

You'll own budgeting, forecasting across UK and US, and build driver-based models for revenue, headcount and costs. You’ll drive automation, analysis, and clear commentary to guide important decisions.

Qualifications

• Own core reporting end to end for management reporting.
• Lead budgeting and termly reforecasts across UK and US.
• Build driver-based models for revenue, headcount and costs.
• Run variance analysis and translate into actionable insights for leadership.
• Act as a finance partner to Regional Directors and commercial leads.
• Lead analyses on unit economics and ROI; support pricing decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own a core set of weekly and monthly management reports end to end.
• Automate reports to improve speed and consistency.
• Write commentary explaining movements and proposed actions.
• Lead annual budget and termly reforecasts across UK/US.
• Build driver-based models for revenue, headcount and costs.
• Partner with Regional Directors in monthly performance reviews.

Skills

Core reporting

Budgeting

Forecasting

Driver models

Variance analysis

Finance partner

Unit economics

ROI analysis

Data reconciliation

Tools

Abacum

Xero

Hibob

Pleo

BI tools

Job description

Location: London, Oval (Hybrid, 2 days per week from home)Salary: £50,000 – £65,000 pa + stock options + benefits Contract: Full-time About The Role Hi, I'm Anna, CFO at Zen Educate. We're scaling across the UK, and US, and our finance function is moving from "reporting what happened" to "shaping what happens next". We're hiring a Senior Finance Analyst / Business Partner to help lead that shift.

This is not a role where you inherit a polished machine and keep it ticking. You'll help build it. You'll own core reporting, sit at the centre of our budget and reforecast cycles, and be the finance partner our Regional Directors call when they need an answer they can act on.

We're looking for someone with real rigour and a genuine itch for efficiency: the kind of person who automates a process once, removing manual steps to make room for strategic insight. If you are excited by a role with strategic, measurable impact whilst collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders, we'd love to meet you

What we’re building and why

Here’s the challenge: UK schools spend over £2 billion a year on temporary staff. But £600m of that goes straight into the pockets of recruitment agencies, money that should be going back into classrooms and teachers’ pay. So we’re doing things differently. Zen Educate is an online platform that gives schools instant access to fully vetted teachers and support staff. Since launching in 2017, we’ve already saved schools over £30 million, that’s gone straight back to where it matters most. We've just closed a $37m Series B (the biggest EdTech round in Europe last year!), and we’re scaling fast in the UK and the US. We are incredibly proud to be a Certified B Corporation™! It’s an exciting time to join, have a huge impact, and grow alongside us.

What this role looks like in practice

Reporting that people trust

• Own a core set of weekly and monthly management reports end to end.

• Take reports that are manual today and make them faster, more consistent and more automated each cycle.

• Write the commentary, not just the numbers: explain what moved, why it moved and what we should do about it.

Planning and forecasting

• Play a central role in our annual budget and termly reforecasts, which run on a school-year calendar across the UK and US.

• Build and maintain driver-based models for revenue, headcount and costs, keeping them accurate, auditable and easy for others to use.

• Run variance analysis (actual vs. budget vs. forecast) and turn it into clear, prioritised insight for leadership.

Business partnering and strategy

• Act as a finance partner to our Regional Directors and commercial leads, joining monthly performance reviews and helping them understand the levers behind their numbers.

• Lead analysis on unit economics, marketing return on investment, and regional performance.

• Support investment and pricing decisions with clear cost-benefit analysis, including where the data is incomplete and judgement is required.

Systems, data and efficiency

• Be the person who makes our finance stack work harder: Abacum, Xero, Hibob, Pleo and our BI tools.

• Reconcile data across systems and fix problems at the source, not just in the spreadsheet.

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