FP&A Manager

Job Description

Influencer is a data-led, global influencer marketing business with a unique, end-to-end ‘people power & platform power’ approach. Their data-led ideation studio, brand platform and creator app join forces to deliver impact at scale. Influencer is championing a movement towards ‘True Human Influence’ - the more tangible, scaled outcomes creators can drive beyond just likes and impressions.

From big brand launches to shifting perceptions and from riding fast trends to driving footfall - Influencer’s creative minds let data ‘art-direct’ the journey to the outcome, while powerful technologies for both brands and creators make it easy and speedy to activate at scale.

On top of this, Influencer’s technologies are supercharged by official data integrations with the world’s leading social platforms for an extra layer of accuracy. Influencer is recognised as an Official Global Marketing Partner of both TikTok and Meta.

Co-founded by entrepreneur Ben Jeffries and OG YouTuber Caspar Lee, Influencer has a global team of 110+ with some of the best talent in the industry across New York, London, Manchester, Dubai and Warsaw. From Google to Amazon and from Coca-Cola to Visit Dubai, and even TikTok and Meta - brands across every vertical tap into the power of True Human Influence all year round.

Influencer are one of the first companies to pop up in the space and are among the market leaders within this booming industry. We were placed in the Top 50 best companies to work for by Campaign in their Best Places’ to Work Award 2021 & 2022, and recently were named as one of the UK’s fasted growing Tech companies by Deloitte.

We also earned our Flexa approval, meaning we are an employer who supports flexible working!

Description

In this exciting role you will be reporting directly into our CFO while supporting the entire business to ensure we prioritise our resources and implement ways of working for effective business partnering. While considering how we allocate activities to where we get the best return on our investment, to maximise our profits and further accelerate our revenue growth.

Key Responsibilities:

• Reporting to the CFO and working closely with the Executive Leadership team to define and implement the optimal performance measurement and management programmes required to ensure the success of the overall business goals

• Business Partnering with the Commercial Leads, being the interface for Finance and the Commercial Team

• Analysing large amounts of data to accurately forecast projected sales trends, identifying strategies to optimise sales to increase market share growing revenue and profit

• Driving new business initiatives

• Providing and owning the Revenue, Cost of Sales and Gross profit figures for the Monthly Management Accounts, Statutory Accounts, Annual budget, Monthly forecasts and 3 year plan, along with the relevant Executive Leader and Commercial leads

• Supporting the Group Financial Controller on the monthly reporting, quarterly and annual forecasting, working together to ensure a deep understanding of variance drivers and strategies to close gaps, securing the business delivers or over delivers Budget EBITDA

• Owning the Budget and 3 year plan model, establishing efficient and effective planning, forecasting and budgeting processes

• Owning the end-to-end process of tracking sales and conversion rates through the sales funnel, producing sales KPI’s and ROI, along with cost of acquiring clients

• Owing the Revenue Tracker for accurate revenue and cost of sales recognition in the Monthly Management Accounts

• Maintain and manage CRM data accuracy and improvement programs working with finance to ensure automated report accuracy

• Develop ad-hoc reports and analysis to support strategic planning as needed

Requirements:

• 2-3 years experience in FP&A, modelling, strategy consulting or financial analysis, ideally within a start-up/scale-up environment

• Ability to analyse large amounts of data - compiling, analysing and reporting sales and cost data

• Bachelor’s degree required or accounting qualification

• Solid communication, organisational and time-management skills

• Strong ability to simplify complex operations and data and effectively communicate this to leaders across all levels of our organisation

• Excellent modelling and Excel skills with the capability of building a business model from scratch

• Strong capability of understanding cash and working capital requirements

• Can do attitude and results focused
  
  

In return you’ll get:

• An opportunity to work in a fun, progressive team with a passion for making Influencer an amazing, diverse and equitable place to work

• Flexi working hours & Working From Home + 4pm finish on Friday!

• 25 days holiday a year (plus bank holidays)

• Activities to improve your mental and physical wellbeing

• Large progressions for growth - you’ll be a key player in the next stage of growth for our company

• The choice of Health Insurance through Vitality or Juno

• EAP through Health Assured

• Cycle to Work Scheme

• Free breakfast and free monthly lunch on Thursdays (when in office!)

• Yearly tenure celebrations

At Influencer, we’re committed to cultivating an environment that promotes diversity, equity and inclusion. We promote DEI in our workplace and are a global community who believe our unique qualities should be celebrated. We want everyone at Influencer to bring their authentic selves to work everyday, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is embedded into everything we do at Influencer and is a part of our culture. All we ask is that you have a passion for Influencer Marketing and a desire to be a part of one of the fastest growing companies within this exciting industry.