Financial Controller

Posted 6 Days Ago
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2 Locations
Remote
Mid level
Fintech • Payments • Financial Services
The Role
The Financial Controller will provide financial insights for business decisions, manage budgets, allocate resources, and improve performance by analyzing data and developing financial models.
Summary Generated by Built In

Messy spend management is tricky business. And tedious processes are a lose-lose situation for all involved, not just finance. At Pleo, we're changing that. We build spend solutions that make managing money seamless, empowering, and surprisingly effective for finance teams and employees alike—with a vision to help all businesses ‘go beyond’.

The word ‘Pleo’ actually means ‘more than you’d expect’, and living by that mantra has been the secret to our success over the last 10 years.

Now, we’re at a pivotal moment in our journey; every move we make has a direct impact on our 40,000+ customers, our business, and our collective success. We need people who take pride in uncovering customer needs, who turn complex problems into simple solutions, challenge the way things are done (respectfully), and always aim high. With great ambitions driving us forward, we can’t say we’ve got this whole thing figured out. And frankly, that’s half the fun! What we can say is that we’re a driven, progressive, and, importantly, a kind bunch of 850+ people from over 100 nationalities, all committed to delivering the future of business spending, together.

We’re excited to be looking for someone who can provide financial insights and analysis to help us define solutions for business challenges, drive business decisions and identify growth drivers - all to help Pleo reach its ambitious growth goals.

To succeed in this role we think you will need between 3-5 years of experience in providing objective views and recommendations to help with prioritisation and capital & resources allocations - and you want to leverage this experience to drive meaningful outcomes in Pleo as an FP&A Senior analyst.

If you’d describe yourself as a collaborative finance professional with strong business acumen and analytical skills, you’re in the right place! 

In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to make a real impact on the future of one of Europe’s fastest growing FinTech Unicorns. So if all of this has got you nodding your head and feeling excited, we’d love for you to click apply and make the introduction.

What will you be doing?
  • Driving communication of business performance and key insights to group management and Pleo’s board and investors by leading reporting cadences
  • Taking a lead role in annual budgeting processes and in investment case assessment to drive efficient resource allocation and prioritisation outcomes
  • Contributing to identifying key growth and efficiency drivers within Pleo and defining KPIs to measure these through both leading and lagging indicators
  • Being a key contributor to cross team projects aimed at analysing and evaluating internal and external business dynamics and improving performance 
  • Owning financial models to provide senior management with the insight needed to make key decisions on business investments and strategy
  • Driving historical analysis to provide actionable recommendations on ways to improve investment allocations, strategic goals and cross business alignment
The hard skills needed!
  • 3-5 years experience in strategic or commercial finance, reporting & analytics function, financial services, or management consulting
  • High commercial awareness and understanding of business environment
  • Strong communication skills to drive engagement with executive level management, investors and board of directors, with a high focus on attention to detail, accuracy and consistency of messaging
  • Ability to operate in a fast paced hyper growth environment and manage ambiguity
  • Fluent in English (spoken and written)
  • Experience in either Fintech or SaaS businesses is a plus but is not required.
  • Relevant qualifications such as a bachelor or masters degree in a relevant field and / or a professional accounting qualification

Show me the benefits!

  • Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
  • Lunch is on us - with catering in our Lisbon, Copenhagen and London offices or a monthly lunch allowance paid directly together with  your salary in other markets 🍜
  • Private health insurance to ensure you’re fit in body and mind to do your best work
  • We offer 25 days of holiday + your public holidays
  • For our teams we offer remote working options
  • Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice
  • We’re trialling MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and wellbeing support with great success so far  ❤️‍🩹
  • Paid parental leave - we want to make sure that we're supportive of families and help you feel that you don't have to compromise your family due to work 👶
About your application
  • Please submit your application in English; it’s our company language so you’ll be speaking lots of it if you join 💕
  • We treat all candidates equally: If you are interested please apply through our application system - any correspondence should come from there! Our lovely support team isn't able to pass on any calls/ emails our way - and this makes sure that the candidate experience is smooth and fair to everyone 😊
  • We can only achieve our goals if our team reflects the diversity of the world around us - and that starts with you, hitting apply, even if you are worried you might not tick all the boxes. We embrace and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply - regardless of race/ethnicity, colour, religion, nationality, gender, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, neurodiversity, socio-economic status, culture or beliefs.
  • When you submit an application we process your personal data as a data processor. Find out more about how your data is used in the FAQs section at the bottom of our jobs page.

Top Skills

Financial Analysis
Financial Modeling
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The Company
London
941 Employees
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

Work can be hard. Paying for stuff at work shouldn’t be.

Expense reports and out-of-pocket purchases just don't work for today's forward-thinking teams. They take power away from your people. They make a serious mess for your accountant to clear up. They cost you time and money.

Pleo offers smart company cards that enable employees to buy the things they need for work, all while keeping a company's finance team in control of spending.

Simplify bookkeeping, eliminate expense reports, revolutionise your business.

Join 30,000+ happy companies and start using Pleo today for free.

www.pleo.io

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