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Blink - The Employee App

FP&A Lead

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London, Greater London, England
Senior level
London, Greater London, England
Senior level
As the FP&A Lead, you will utilize strong data manipulation skills and commercial acumen to provide insights that guide business decisions. Your responsibilities include budgeting, forecasting, and analytics, along with tracking key SaaS metrics and collaborating with cross-functional teams. You'll also build complex financial models and manage stakeholder relationships.
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Description

Hybrid position: working 3 days a week from our London office (Monday's, Wednesday's & Thursday's)

We're looking for people who want to put their stamp on the world.

80% of the global workforce is a frontline worker; yet their work experience - how they work, how they connect with systems, with others, etc - is fundamentally disjointed and difficult compared to desk-based workers.

Blink has built an unparalleled employee super-app to achieve our mission of closing this digital divide and enable distributed organisations to reconnect their frontline workforce, communicate effectively with all their employees and engage with all of them like never before. Our cutting-edge platform serves thousands of users across the globe, empowering enterprises to engage, motivate, and retain their most valuable assets—their people.

Blink has been named in Sifted’s Top 100 fastest growing companies, G2’s report for best employee engagement software and recognised by Gartner as a leading software provider in their annual market guide for Employee Communications Application.

What you need to know

We're seeking a FP&A lead with a strong commercial mindset to join our rapidly growing company

  • As a Senior FP&A Manager at Blink, you'll leverage your data manipulation skills and commercial acumen to deliver insights that drive business decisions
  • You’ll excel in cross-functional collaboration, forecasting, and problem-solving while navigating ambiguity with ease
  • Enhance and automate forecasting, reporting, and analytics to support scalable FP&A operations using new and existing technologies (SQL experience is a must)
  • Execute the core foundations of an FP&A function including: budgeting; sensitivity/scenario analysis; re-forecasting; reporting for management; and department leads for partnered areas of the business
  • Track key SaaS metrics, including MRR, ARR, churn, CAC, LTV, and payback periods, ensuring alignment with company objectives.
  • Own and understand the key drivers in the P&L for budgeting and forecasting in partnered areas, keeping the business to account where variances arise
  • Identify and assess commercial opportunities and risks, challenging perspectives through data led insight
  • Build strong supportive relationships with budget holders and senior managers
Requirements
  • 4+ years of FP&A or related finance experience, within a high-growth scale up and/or SaaS environment
  • ACCA, ACA or CIMA qualified (or equivalent)
  • Strong data literacy and manipulation skills, comfortable working with SQL, database tools, snowflake and power BI
  • Proven track record of cross functional collaboration and project delivery
  • Demonstrated ability in forecasting and quantitative problem-solving, with the ability to communicate candidly and translate data into insight
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguity, and self-motivated to deliver autonomously
  • Proven ability to create complex financial models from scratch
  • Excellent people skills, you’re great at stakeholder management and mentoring team members
Benefits

You will have the opportunity to be part of something impactful, large-scale, and meaningful. Most importantly, you’ll work for a company with a strong purpose, with an ambitious team embarking on a journey most start-ups can only dream of! Benefits include:

  • Competitive salary – and equity in the company
  • A spacious, natural light-filled office in London
  • 25 days a year off (plus public holidays!)
  • Private healthcare, Ride2Work, pension scheme

At Blink, we're committed to creating an inclusive and diverse culture where our people feel they truly belong. We value and respect individual differences, so all applications will receive fair and equal consideration without regard to ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability or age

Top Skills

SQL

Blink - The Employee App London, England Office

2 Westland Place, London, United Kingdom, N1 7LP

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