Senior FP&A Specialist (d/f/m)

Solaris is a tech company with a full German banking license. Our Banking-as-a-Service platform enables businesses to offer their own financial products. With our straightforward APIs, our partners can access and integrate a wide range of solutions such as digital banking, payments, cards, identification and lending services. As a market leader we are driven by bringing transformational change to the financial services industry.

We love what we do and we love our team. We are 700+ people from over 70 nationalities - a unique blend of techies, fintech enthusiasts, bankers and entrepreneurs from various industries. Our routines are built around genuinely valuing and exchanging different perspectives as well as actively sharing knowledge as we drive our business as a team. We believe and invest in personal growth.

Your Role

• Budgeting and Cost Management: Design and oversee comprehensive budgeting processes, monitor budgets against actuals, and provide actionable insights through monthly, annual, and ad-hoc performance reviews with leadership and cost centre owners. Recommend cost-saving initiatives and optimize resource allocation.

• Financial Modeling and Planning: Build detailed financial models for various scenarios, conduct variance analyses, and identify data-driven insights to support strategic projects aimed at enhancing revenue, gross margins, and EBITDA performance.

• Performance Monitoring and Reporting: Analyse financial performance and provide clear, actionable insights through robust reporting processes. Prepare and contribute to financial reports, forecasts, and recommendations to senior leadership, C-level executives, and other stakeholders.

• Operational Oversight: Collaborate closely with the People & Organisation department to monitor workforce development, document organisational changes (e.g., vacancies, new position requests, internal movements), and ensure effective management of compensation-related expenses in line with business needs.

• Internal Controls and Compliance: Track and manage the budget against actuals including the responsibility for monthly and ad-hoc performance reviews with leadership and cost center owners.

• Cross-functional Collaboration: Act as a business partner to various departments, providing financial guidance and ensuring alignment with organisational goals. Work with the Finance team to ensure the accuracy of accounting outputs, including cost allocations and accrual processes, in line with management reporting.

We'd love to see 

Depending on your level of experience, your responsibilities and scope of role will range. We don’t care much about fancy titles, but rather about real personal and professional development, as laid out in our learning framework. Let’s figure together out how you can contribute to our team.

• Minimum work experience of 5+ years in financial institutions, banking or fintechs industries. 
• Experience in either/or business planning and controlling, strategy consulting, private/investment banking, business analytics and/or finance.
• Experience with financial modeling, creating and optimizing business cases.
• Educational background in Economics, Finance, Business or similar fields.
• Knowledge of the main office IT tools (in particular Microsoft Excel and Power Point), and knowledge of programming languages ​​(such as VBA, SQL, or Python)
• Professional fluency in English, both speaking and writing. German language proficiency is beneficial.

Benefits 

• We have a "remote-friendly" working arrangement
• Home office budget
• Learning & Development budget
• Transparent framework to support your career goals
• Competitive salary

While job ads usually paint an ideal picture of a candidate, studies show that most applicants meet an average of 60% of the criteria. Unfortunately, many promising candidates tend to apply only if they meet all the criteria. So if you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily meet every single item in the job description, please contact us anyway. We'd love to talk with you and find out if you might be a good fit for us.

At Solaris, we are committed to nurturing an inclusive environment, where all Solarians feel valued, respected and supported. We are dedicated to building a diverse workforce that reflects the diversity of our communities. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of color, ethnicity, religion, sex, origin, disability, marital status, citizenship, or gender identity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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