Senior Business Finance Manager

Join Equals, a fast-growing fintech company, as a Senior Business Finance Manager. In this hands-on role, you will be responsible for delivering the Board's strategic objectives, supporting M&A, debt and equity raising, exit planning, promoting revenue growth, and championing cost control and efficiency. You will work closely with shareholders, transaction service advisors, and the Executive Team. Key responsibilities include building and maintaining the 5-year business plan model, leading the annual strategic planning and budgeting processes, delivering financial information to key stakeholders, and partnering with department heads to manage their cost base. The ideal candidate will have proven expertise in FP&A, strong technical accounting and financial modeling skills, and experience in a fintech or regulated financial services environment.

• Lead the annual 5-year strategic planning, detailed bottom-up annual budget, and half-yearly forecast processes to deliver the longer-term strategic plan.
• Build and maintain Equals 5-year business plan model capable of incorporating scenario modeling, debt financing, and M&A functionality.
• Partner with department and revenue and cost-center owners to manage their cost base and drive commercial improvement.
• You will be a natural analyst who can see and surface the key insights in financial and non-financial information and package, present and message to get the right discussions happening and decisions made within the business and drive the right actions forwards to enable commercial success
• You will be adept at data analytics and successful in reporting commercial performance to key stakeholders, always responsive and with an eye on the forward look
• You will have proven expertise running 5 year strategic planning, budget, forecast and rolling forecasting processes and delivering weekly and or monthly financial information and insight to Executive Committee, Board, Equity and Debt providers in a PE backed and/or listed business
• You will have experience of working in transaction driven environments, knowing what it takes to deliver on M&A, debt financing, listings, and exits. The FP&A function in Equals operates as a “deal ready” function
• You will have the technical accounting and financial modelling expertise to build and run a fully integrated P&L, BS, Cashflow 5 year business model
• Strong technical accounting and proven financial modelling capability
• Strong time management and the ability to stay calm under pressure, keeping all stakeholders appropriately informed of progress
• Strong MS Office abilities, Excel / data skills, pivot tables, index match/lookups, Powerpoint
• Demonstrable experience in a similar FP&A or finance business partnering role
• An excellent and confident communicator, able to deal with people at all levels in an organisation
• Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA)
• Proficiency using AI tools (e.g. Ideally Claude including CoWork), applying them to finance workflows and with ability to evaluate the outputs. Keen to map out data flows and able to demonstrate interest and experience in applying AI tools in a finance context)
• Experience in a fintech or regulated financial services environment
• Familiarity with FCA compliance frameworks
• Experience working in a high-growth or post-merger environment