Job Description
Finance Leadership Role at Wayflyer
Wayflyer is revolutionising e-commerce by levelling the playing field for founders across the world. Our first product, the Merchant Cash Advance, solves a major pain point for brands: access to short-term finance to fund inventory and marketing spend.
We're a fast-growing, venture-backed startup that serves a critical need for e-commerce entrepreneurs. You'll be joining an ambitious, collaborative team that's working on a huge opportunity.
Key Responsibilities:
- Reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer, you will be responsible for the annual financial planning process, including working with Business Unit heads to build their annual budgets.
- Collaborating with the Revenue department on their forecasts and working with the senior leadership team on materials to be presented to the board.
- Analysing financial and operational results to better understand company performance and compare relative to budget.
- Responsibility for the overall corporate financial model, including scenario analysis on changes in volume of deployments and forecasting company liquidity requirements.
- Running a quarterly financial latest estimate process to provide management with the latest view of expected performance each quarter end for the current financial year.
- Work with budget owners on requests for additional spend throughout the year, including ROI analysis on new projects.
- Working with the data team on potential improvements to reporting and to identify opportunities for potential automation.
- Work with the capital markets team on modelling out the terms of new debt facilities and assistance with diligence requests as required.
- Work with the portfolio/credit team on changes to our pricing to analyse how it impacts our forecasts and unit economics.
- Preparing business cases to support new investment, strategic and other business decisions.
Requirements:
- Professional accountancy qualification (ACA/CIMA/ACCA) with 7+ years PQE and previous experience in an FP&A or similar commercial role.
- Experience with delivering analysis to and collaborating with senior stakeholders.
- High proficiency in financial modelling is very important.
- Systems experience such as SQL is an advantage but not essential.
- Innate curiosity and willingness to learn about the financial and operational characteristics of Wayflyer and e-commerce businesses.
- Ability to thrive in a collaborative, fast-moving organisation using lightweight processes, creative ideas, and quick iteration.
- Excellent financial acumen and ability to understand and breakdown complex data and processes.
- Proactive, flexible, and keen to make a difference and help Wayflyer grow.
What We're Looking For:
- A collaborative and ambitious team player who is passionate about finance and e-commerce.
- A strong communicator who can effectively present complex financial information to senior stakeholders.
- A proactive and flexible individual who is comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
- A keen learner who is eager to understand the financial and operational characteristics of Wayflyer and e-commerce businesses.
We'll review every application we receive. If we're interested in taking your application further, we will be in touch to find out more about you and what you're looking for.
We offer a range of benefits, including two company-wide wellness days per year, work remotely abroad for up to 60 days a year, 25 days annual leave, employee assistance programme, medical insurance, and generous parental and adoptive leave policies.