Senior FP&A Business Partner

About this job opportunity
 

Our Vision

To be the world's most trusted global payroll partner, simplifying pay for all employees.

Our Mission

Empowering global workforces with seamless, compliant, and innovative payroll and payment solutions, enabling businesses to thrive in a connected world.

Our People

Our fundamental beliefs at CloudPay are built on core values of professionalism, passion, empowerment, innovation, and teamwork. We value our employees and strive to create a great workplace where everyone is valued, heard, inspired, and encouraged to bring their authentic selves to work. We're committed to providing an excellent employee experience through fulfilling projects, empowerment to make a difference, and an environment that inspires innovation.

What makes this role exciting

This role combines traditional financial planning and analysis with advanced data manipulation and analysis, requiring both financial acumen and technical proficiency. You'll be instrumental in driving data-informed business decisions and building scalable analytical solutions.

Main responsibilities

Business Planning & Analysis

• Prepare board-level reports and presentations, including month end group financial reporting, translating complex financial data into actionable insights
• Play a key role in the annual budgeting process and forecasting cycles, partnering with budget owners and key stakeholders across the organisation
• Assist in developing and maintaining financial models to support strategic decision-making, including scenario analysis and sensitivity modelling
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and implement best practices in financial reporting and analysis
• Conduct variance analysis and identify key business drivers impacting financial performance

Data Analytics & Business Intelligence

• Design, build and maintain Power BI dashboards and self-serve reporting, giving business leaders timely access to financial and operational KPIs
• Develop and own robust data models within Power BI using DAX and Power Query, establishing consistent, trusted metric definitions across the business
• Analyse large and complex datasets using SQL or Python to generate business insights and build scalable data solutions for the financial models
• Help build and maintain the "single source of truth" for finance and operational data — building data models and pipelines directly from source systems where needed, and partnering with the central Data/Engineering team on shared infrastructure and definitions
• Maintain data quality and governance so that reporting is accurate, consistent and reconciled across the business
• Automate manual and recurring reporting to reduce cycle time and free up capacity for higher-value analysis

Business Partnership

• Act as a trusted finance partner to leaders across Sales, Product & Engineering, Operations, Marketing and other G&A functions, providing the analysis and challenge needed to support commercial and strategic decisions
• Translate financial performance into clear, actionable narratives for non-finance stakeholders, influencing decisions rather than simply reporting on them
• Partner with budget owners to build and challenge their plans, pressure-testing assumptions and holding them accountable to forecast and budget
• Support headcount and workforce planning, modelling the financial impact of hiring decisions across departments
• Monitor and explain performance against key SaaS and operational metrics (e.g. ARR, churn/retention, gross margin, CAC and unit economics), proactively flagging risks and opportunities to relevant business leaders
• Develop strong cross-functional relationships to ensure finance is embedded early in planning and decision-making, rather than consulted after the fact

Experience needed for this role

• Degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, Data Analytics, or related field
• Proven senior experience in FP&A, Strategic Finance, Business / Data Analytics, Consulting or Investment Banking.
• Advanced SQL skills – ability to write complex queries involving joins and subqueries. Prior experience working with large-scale datasets and a general understanding of database architecture. Python is a plus.
• Experience with large-scale datasets and understanding of database architecture
• Strong data modelling skills (preferably financial) and Excel skills, including advanced formulas

About you and Our core values

• Taking ownership, working with integrity and respect
• Being a team player is key to our culture
• Solution and customer focused
• Great initiative with the goal for excellence in achieving results
• Dedicated to developing and always looking for continuous improvements
• Be creative, be committed, be engaged and enjoy what you do

CloudPay is committed to being an equal opportunities employer.

Competitive Package and Benefits for UK or Spain.

The CloudPay culture is built upon on five core values, from which we develop our service, our technology and our business strategies. Our fundamental beliefs are a promise to our employees, customers and partners, built on the core values of professionalism, passion, empowerment, innovation, and teamwork.
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