Job Description

As a Senior FP&A Analyst you'll be a key part of the Finance team helping the FP&A team to build forecasts, budgets, and continually monitor actual financial results against those forecasts/budgets. You will take an active role in partnering with various departments across the business: collating and framing company data, continually tracking and monitoring financial performance, and meeting with various stakeholders to gather and communicate key financial information. You will be highly involved in the management accounting and reporting process, as well as helping to produce ad-hoc reports.

Tide is growing at a phenomenal rate, and as such the finance team is expanding and continually seeking to improve the finance function. The Senior FP&A Analyst will work closely with the FP&A Lead to implement a new financial planning software in 2022/23, as well as drive process improvements within the FP&A function.

Some of the things you'll be doing:

• Building budgets and financial forecasts as part of the quarterly reforecasting cycle
• Monitoring actual vs budget reports
• Working with the Finance team to complete the monthly close and management reporting process
• Partnering with the People team whilst taking ownership of the budgeted hiring plan
• Business partnering - working closely with the budget owners to monitor financial performance and seek cost optimisation opportunities and efficiencies
• Building processes for and eventually leading the FP&A function for the Company's India operations
• Playing a key role in process improvements
• Working with the FP&A and Transformation team to implement a new financial planning software
• Adhoc projects, such as reviewing the financial viability of specific business cases

You'll be a great fit if:

• You are a qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA equivalent in India)
• You have solid systems ability, in particular advanced Excel and Google Sheets as well as advanced knowledge of FP&A systems.
• You have a proven track record with process improvements
• You are confident dealing with senior stakeholders across the business and owning your work with minimal hands-on management
• You are proactive & solution focused with high attention to detail and sound analytical skills
• You have outstanding organisational and prioritisation skills including the ability to work to tight deadlines
• You have a minimum of five years' relevant / transferable experience
• You are personable and able to build robust working relationships
• You may also have experience with key accounting software implementation, such as an ERP system
• You may also have experience working at a fintech in Credit and/or Payments sectors

Who are Tide?

We're the UK's leading provider of smart current accounts for sole traders and small companies. We're also on a mission to save business owners time and money on their banking and finance admin so they can get back to doing what they love - for too long, these customers have been under-served by the big banks.

Our offices are in London, UK, Sofia, Bulgaria, Hyderabad and Gurugram, India, where our teams are dedicated to our small business members, revolutionizing business banking for SMEs. We are also the leading provider of UK SME business accounts and one of the fastest-growing fintechs in the UK.

We're scaling at speed with a focus on hiring talented individuals with a growth mindset and ownership mentality, who are able to juggle multiple and sometimes changing priorities. Our values show our commitment to working as one team, working collaboratively to take action and deliver results. Member first, we are passionate about our members and put them first. We are data-driven, we make decisions, creating insight using data.

We're also one of LinkedIn's top 10 hottest UK companies to work for.

What you'll get in return:

• Competitive salary
• Self & Family Health Insurance
• Term & Life Insurance
• Special Dental Allowance
• Learning & Development Budget
• 25 Annual leaves
• Family & Friendly Leaves

Here's what we think about diversity and inclusion...

We build our services for all types of small business owners. We aim to be as diverse as our members so we hire people from a variety of backgrounds. We're proud that our diversity not only reflects our multicultural society but that this breadth of experience makes us awesome at solving problems. Everyone here has a voice and you'll be able to make a difference. If you share our values and want to help small businesses, you'll make an amazing Tidean.