Senior Fp&A Manager

Taboola; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Taboola is seeking a Senior FP&A Manager in London to lead forecasting, budgeting, P&L and revenue management. You will build scalable financial reporting, partner with global sales and finance teams, and drive data-driven decision making.

Ideal candidates bring extensive experience with Excel models, large datasets, SQL, and BI tools, with a background in finance analytics within technology/media or consulting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in forecasting, budgeting, P&L and revenue management with finance analytics.
• Strong Excel modelling skills with large datasets.
• BA/BS in finance, statistics or quantitative economics; data analytics focus.

Responsibilities

• Create, support and maintain data models, financial projections, reports and dashboards.
• Build and maintain annual budgets, financial plans, P&Ls and collaborate with worldwide sales to drive quarterly forecasting.
• Analyse actual performance versus projections to explain variances.
• Own and manage multiple BI initiatives and projects, ongoing and ad-hoc.
• Analyse big data and generate actionable recommendations for finance and business users.
• Leverage AI platforms to streamline and automate analyses across the business.

Skills

Forecasting

Budgeting

P&L management

Revenue management

Sales planning

Financial analysis

Excel modeling

Data analysis

Education

BA/BS in finance, statistics, quantitative economics or related

Tools

Nexus

Claude

Gemini

Tableau

Salesforce

QlikView

Qlik Sense

SQL

Job description

Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company!

Taboola is looking for a brilliant, strategic minded, finance/operations focused leader to join our Financial Planning and Analysis team and help steer the EMEA business to success. This position will have significant exposure to senior management and will work within a global team in London.

The Sr. Manager, FP&A will be primarily responsible for building and managing mechanisms to optimise core sales planning functions, such as departmental forecasting, goals and KPI reporting, revenue performance, and executive escalations and approvals. You will become a subject matter expert on revenue, pipeline, your region’s P&L plus other key metrics used to run the business. You will look for commonalities across our stakeholders’ business needs, build scalable mechanisms, and leverage automation to provide reporting in line with the growth of the business.

To thrive in this role, you’ll need:

• Demonstrable professional experience in Forecasting, Budgeting, P&L, Revenue Management, Sales Planning coupled with Financial Analysis, ideally with past/current experience within iBanking, Management Consulting or Technology/Media in a Finance Manager/Finance Business Partner or Financial Analyst role/FP&A, working with large data sets and complex Microsoft Excel models
• Ability to understand and analyse financial statements with excellent attention to detail
• Experience building and maintaining complex financial excel models with many assumptions and variables
• Advanced/Expert Microsoft Excel skills
• Experience working with SQL/large datasets/AI tools and the aptitude and willingness to learn
• BA/BS or equivalent qualification. Major in finance, statistics, quantitative economics or another degree emphasising data analysis preferred

Bonus points if you have:

• Familiarity with BI & Sales tools such as Nexus, Claude, Gemini, Tableau, Salesforce and Qlik products and development (QlikView and Qlik Sense)
• Experience working in online/digital businesses, especially online advertising/content marketing
• Data or Finance focused Project Management
• Experience working with sales & finance data across multiple regions

How you’ll make an impact:

As a Senior FP&A Manager, you’ll bring value by:

• Create, support and maintain data models, financial projections, reports and dashboards as well as find creative solutions for a variety of challenges facing our growing data requirements
• Build and maintain annual budgets, financial plans, P&Ls and collaborate with the worldwide sales organisation to help drive the quarterly forecasting process
• Analyse actual performance versus projections to explain any underlying variances in detail
• Own and manage multiple BI initiatives and projects both on an ongoing and an ad-hoc basis
• Analyse big data and generate useful conclusions and actionable recommendations for finance, management and business users
• Leverage AI platforms to streamline & automate analyses throughout the business