Finance Specialist (FP&A)

Department: Finance

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: London

Compensation: £40,000 - £55,000 / year

DescriptionFinance Specialist (FP&A)London
At Freetrade, we believe investing should be accessible to everyone. It’s one of the best ways to grow your savings but, for many, it seems complicated, expensive, and out of reach.

We’re here to change that.
We're a technology company that brings simple investing to everyone. We’ve built a beautiful app to buy and sell shares and ETFs in a fluid, mobile-first experience.

We’re building a team with diverse and unique perspectives in order to help us on our mission to demystify investing.
Our goal is to help our customers achieve better, long-term financial outcomes.

In 2024, we’ll be launching across the EU, following our successful launch in Sweden. We’ll also be transforming our product, developing new features and introducing new products. In the UK, we now have over 1.6m registered users, offering a range of products like the Freetrade Pension, a stocks and shares ISA, and our premium plan, Freetrade Plus.
Our growth has all been possible because of the backing of a passionate group of over 15,000 crowdfunding investors. As we’ve scaled, we’ve also raised money from world-class growth investors including Left Lane Capital, Molten Ventures, and L Catterton.

With the team constantly evolving we are now looking for an exceptional Finance Specialist to join Freetrade. You will report directly to our Head of FP&A, working closely with the Senior Specialist FP&A and be responsible for business partnering key stakeholders, developing management information (MI) and working on our reporting processes. This is a key role as we run a lean high performing FP&A function.

You will:Assist the Head of FP&A and the Senior Specialist to support the business including:

• Building and owning the monthly MI analysis and reporting process as well as drive actions from this
• Building budget and fundraising models with the Senior Specialist
• Producing financial analysis including revenue, cost and KPIs of the business
• Supporting financial aspects of our fundraising processes
• Supporting capital and cash planning, scenarios and interaction with regulatory and treasury teams
• Supporting on commercial finance activities and be a true business partner who will drive insight and value for the business - for example:
  • Engaging with product owners and commercial teams on new product initiatives, pricing and other similar commercial finance activities
  • Supporting to procurement initiatives and cost-efficiency
  • Spend reviews/investment cases
  • Business partnering with marketing team for KPI tracking and performance review
  • Anything else that adds value to the business

About you:

• Have a degree in a relevant subject (STEM, Finance & Accounting, or Economics is seen as desirable). 2.1 or higher.
• You are CIMA part qualified or a strong Graduate 1 - 2 years in your career and have a strong desire to undertake your accounting qualifications.
• Have strong excel/ IT skills and are interested in learning new systems.
• Are comfortable working with large data sets to identify trends and insight
• Are analytical and detail-oriented, able to build and update models largely independently
• Have a get-up and go attitude, desire to be a business partner and have the confidence to make us believe this.
• Are curious and have strong problem solving skills, with the ability to identify trends and issues
• Have the ability to understand the needs of the end users and pull information to their requirement
• Enjoy working in a fast paced environment and can work under pressure
• You are commercially curious and are genuinely interested in the investment brokerage industry

Logistics and benefits: Logistics

The application process consists of a 4 stage process. You will initially have a zoom interview with one of our internal Talent Partner, followed by a hiring manager interview with your potential manager, a task stage and final round values founder interviews

Benefits
We offer a competitive salary plus stock options and lots of other benefits.
You’ll have a stake in the company you’re building, with stock options benchmarked to US companies.

We are an Equal Opportunity employer committed to a diverse and representative team. Whatever your race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability - we want to hear from you. We're very open about what we're working on, and the best places to learn more are our buzzing community forum and our blog.

Please note we are not accepting agency CVs.