FP&A Director

Posted 18 Days Ago
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Barcelona, Cataluña, ESP
In-Office
Senior level
Mobile
The Role
Own the consolidated operating model, budgeting, forecasting, board and investor reporting, monthly variance analysis, revenue and cohort economics, scenario planning, and finance automation. Partner with business leaders on opex and headcount decisions, improve BI and planning systems, and manage two financial analysts. The role requires executive communication, multi-entity financial modeling, and Barcelona-based hybrid work eligibility.
Summary Generated by Built In

Appodeal is a dynamic US-based product company with a truly global presence.

We have offices in Warsaw, Barcelona and Parkland (FL), along with remote team members located around the world.

Our company thrives on diversity, collaboration, and innovation, making us a leader in the mobile app monetization space.

Why Appodeal?

At Appodeal, we’re more than just a company—we’re a team united by a common mission: Help people discover and grow their talents through products that enable successful mobile app businesses!

We take pride in our cutting-edge product and our internationally dispersed team of talented professionals.

Here’s what we value, and what we hope you do too:

  • Continuous Learning and Growth: We are passionate about learning, growing personally, and building rewarding careers.
  • Making an Impact: We are committed to building a history-defining company that leaves a lasting impact on the mobile app industry.
  • Solving Exciting Challenges: We tackle complex problems every day, supported by a team of world-class professionals and mentors.
  • Enjoying the Journey: We believe in having fun while working toward our goals.
Why this role exists:

Our economics are richer than a typical software P&L. Gross billings flow through us to publishers, so what we book and what we keep are two different numbers. We deploy our own capital into user acquisition and earn it back over cohorts. Revenue moves with eCPMs, impression volume, network mix, portfolio concentration and platform policy — sometimes in the same month.

Leadership and the board need one version of that story: built once, refreshed on a calendar, and trusted by everyone reading it. That is what this role owns. You will be the analytical spine of the company — the person who owns the model, runs the planning cycle, and turns 200+ metrics into the handful of numbers that actually drive decisions.

What you’ll own:
  • The consolidated operating model. Driver-based revenue, gross profit, opex, headcount and cash for the group — annual budget, quarterly re-forecast, monthly rolling view. One model, one source of truth, documented well enough that someone else can audit it.
  • Board and investor reporting. Build the board package end to end: KPI pack, P&L and cash bridges, plan-versus-actual, and a written narrative that explains movements rather than restating them. You own the calendar, the pre-reads and the follow-ups.
  • The monthly cycle. Partner with Accounting through close, produce variance analysis against budget and forecast, and get a flash view to leadership in the first days of the month — with the reasons attached, not just the deltas.
  • Revenue economics. Model gross ad revenue and net revenue after publisher payouts, take rate by product and cohort, eCPM and impression drivers, and network and publisher concentration — keeping the gross-versus-net presentation consistent with how revenue is recognized.
  • UA capital and Accelerator economics. Treat the UA fund as a capital allocation problem: cohort ROAS and payback curves, capital deployed versus recouped, per-title P&Ls, revenue-share deal models to support go/no-go calls, and a clear read on the working capital tied up between paying for installs and collecting from networks.
  • Opex and headcount partnering. Be the finance partner to Product, Engineering, Growth and G&A: hiring plans, vendor and cloud spend, return on what we choose to fund, and the discipline to say plainly what something costs.
  • Scenario and sensitivity work. Take-rate and pricing changes, network mix shifts, privacy and platform policy changes, FX across our entities, downside cases with the levers named and quantified.
  • The reporting stack. Move routine reporting out of spreadsheets and into BI and planning tooling, working with the Data team so finance definitions match what the product actually measures.
  • Management of 2 financial analysts.
What you bring:
  • 7+ years in FP&A, investment banking, transaction services or strategy consulting, including at least two to three years in an operating seat owning a budget and forecast cycle.
  • Modeling that holds up under scrutiny: driver-based three-statement models, cohort and unit economics, scenario mechanics built for someone else to inspect.
  • Building automation into finance reporting — this seat's own charter: AI-assisted forecasting, an agentic reporting layer, rolling-forecast automation, scenario tooling, automated variance reporting. 
  • Fluency with large transactional datasets — you should be able to answer your own questions rather than queue for them.
  • Experience presenting to executives and a board, and the judgment to know which three numbers matter in a given month.
  • Direct, transparent communication in English (our working language), and the ability to disagree with a commercial team while keeping them as a partner.
  • Ownership as a default: you see gaps in process and close them without being assigned to.
  • Leadership experience - mentoring and leading a team of analysts.
  • Based in or relocating to Barcelona, eligible to work in Spain, and comfortable with a hybrid rhythm.
Nice to have:
  • Ad tech, mobile gaming, marketplaces, healthcare, financial services, telecommunications, e-commerce or any other pass-through revenue business — including principal-versus-agent and gross-versus-net revenue judgments.
  • Multi-entity, multi-currency consolidation across US and EU entities.
  • A planning tool (Pigment, Anaplan, Abacum, Planful) and BI (Looker, Tableau, Metabase), plus a modern ERP such as NetSuite.
  • Python, SQL or dbt for analysis, and the instinct to automate any report you have built twice.

With an outstanding product and a mission that excites and inspires, Appodeal offers a unique opportunity to make an impact while being part of an amazing team.

Join us and help shape the future of mobile app success!

Skills Required

  • 7+ years of experience in FP&A, investment banking, transaction services, or strategy consulting
  • 2–3 years in an operating role owning a budget and forecast cycle
  • Experience building driver-based three-statement models
  • Experience with cohort and unit economics modeling
  • Ability to build inspectable scenario mechanics and sensitivity analyses
  • Experience automating finance reporting and forecasting
  • Fluency with large transactional datasets
  • Experience presenting to executives and boards
  • Direct and transparent communication in English
  • Ownership mindset and ability to improve processes independently
  • Leadership experience mentoring and managing financial analysts
  • Based in or willing to relocate to Barcelona
  • Eligible to work in Spain
  • Comfort working in a hybrid environment
  • Experience in ad tech, mobile gaming, marketplaces, healthcare, financial services, telecommunications, e-commerce, or another pass-through revenue business
  • Experience with multi-entity, multi-currency consolidation across US and EU entities
  • Experience with Pigment, Anaplan, Abacum, or Planful
  • Experience with Looker, Tableau, or Metabase
  • Experience with NetSuite or a modern ERP
  • Experience using Python, SQL, or dbt for analysis
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco
100 Employees
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

Appodeal is a reliable and unbiased monetization partnership that provides a comprehensive, custom-tailored approach to manage all ad monetization related operations. With just one SDK integration, a mobile app gains access to 60+ ad demand sources competing against each other in real-time auction for every single ad impression. Along with all major mobile ad formats, the Appodeal platform offers publishers innovative tools like cross-promotion and direct deals, network monitoring, segments and placements, and cutting-edge technology like parallel bidding. More than an ad mediation solution, Appodeal is a reliable monetization partner for more than 30,000 apps now, from indie to enterprise.

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