Senior FP&A Analyst, Faculty
2+ days a week in office
Helping clients use cutting edge AI to improve the performance of their business
Open for applications
Helping clients use cutting edge AI to improve the performance of their business
201-500 employees
Open for applications
2+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help organisations across the public and private sectors use AI to understand more deeply, make better decisions and act faster.
Role
Who you are
- CIMA or ACA qualified or part-qualified, or equivalent experience
- Strong financial modelling, forecasting, and budgeting skills
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a keen attention to detail
- Experience of business partnering, with a proven track record of building collaborative relationships and influencing decision-making
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel & google sheets
- Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively convey complex financial information to non-financial stakeholders
- Ability to work independently, prioritise tasks, and manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
- Strong business acumen and a strategic mindset, with a focus on driving financial performance and delivering actionable insights
What the job involves
- Financial Planning and Analysis: Develop and maintain robust financial models for forecasting revenue and P&L across the different sector business units, and other business areas as needed. Analyse business performance against key revenue and margin metrics. Identify trends and provide analysis to help understand key business drivers
- Business Partnership: Collaborate with senior staff to understand and support their strategic objectives and targets with financial modelling and scenario planning to help them make good decisions. Act as a trusted advisor by providing financial insights, identifying risks and opportunities, and making recommendations to drive performance improvements
- Corporate project partnering: Collaborate with delivery and sales leads to understand the portfolio of clients accounts and projects, forecast revenue based on pipeline, monitor financial performance, manage revenue recognition, and escalate issues as required
- Sales Partnering and Pricing: Collaborate closely with sales and commercial teams to analyse pricing strategies and sales performance. Provide financial insights on pricing decisions, profitability analysis, and revenue optimisation. Support the development of sales forecasts and budgets, ensuring alignment with overall financial goals and targets. Work with cross-functional teams to provide data to help set and evaluate performance against sales targets
- Performance Monitoring: Working closely with the Commercial Operations team, monitor and analyse key financial and operational metrics, such as revenue, expenses, margins, and profitability. Proactively identify trends, issues, and potential areas of improvement. Work with stakeholders to develop actionable plans to optimise performance
- Forecasting and Budgeting: Collaborate with stakeholders to develop accurate and achievable financial forecasts and budgets. Track actual performance against forecasts and budgets, investigate variances, and communicate insights to relevant parties
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Foster strong relationships with various departments, including operations, sales, and marketing. Partner with these teams to drive financial discipline, improve forecasting accuracy, and align financial goals with overall business objectives
- Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to streamline financial processes, enhance reporting capabilities, and improve overall efficiency. Leverage technology and data analytics tools to automate and optimise financial analysis and reporting
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Faculty work with companies such as Samsung, the BBC, and Just Eat to figure out what they could do with AI, and then help them to do it through implementing the right skills, strategy and software.
The team have developed a platform with large cloud computing space for accessing large amounts of data usable to design and test AI models. As businesses realise the importance of using data to drive growth and stay competitive, Faculty have focused on making AI real through real world deployments and aim provide data to organisations so that they can make better decisions.
Faculty has worked with clients in a range of different industries, including healthcare, retail, government and energy. They are just one of the many companies utilising AI, but it’s their ability to work alongside organisations and apply the findings that will really help them to succeed.
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Employee endorsements
Autonomy
"People here get a lot of trust to figure things out. They also get the chance to earn a lot of responsibility at a relatively early stage in their..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2020
$39.5m
SERIES A
Nov 2019
$10.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $52m
Company benefits
- Hybrid working: We believe people have needs, responsibilities and interests that require something different to a strict working day. We trust people to organise and take accountability for their own work and do our best to support their lives outside Faculty. We provide you with all you need to work from home, including a laptop, keyboard, chair…even Sony headphones!
- Equity, we want you to benefit from Faculty’s growth and success
- Unlimited holidays: We encourage each other to use this time to take a break, work on personal projects, or to spend time with their friends and family
- Fantastic private health, optical and dental cover, for you & your family - including 24/7 unlimited virtual private GP appointments and covering pre-existing medical conditions
- Access to mental health coaching with Sanctus
- Lunch weekly, and more fruit, drinks and snacks than you could ever eat (for office-based employees)
- We work hard and make sure we enjoy what we do. So we have frequent socials and informal get-togethers to help make sure you enjoy your time with us. You’ll make friends and professional connections that will last a lifetime
Company values
- Grow the Best Team - Only hire people you’re convinced will make Faculty better. Take others’ development as seriously as your own. Build strong and collaborative teams
- Do Great Work - Master your craft. Take pride in your work, even when no one is watching. Demand the highest standards from yourself and others. Work hard, but do it sustainably
- Be Humble & Kind - Recognise that you’re always learning, and have something to learn from everyone. Always make the decision that is best for faculty, but treat people kindly as you do it
- Act with Integrity - Have the courage to maintain integrity even when it’s costly to do so. Demand this from others without hesitation
- Seek Truth - Seek the truth over winning the argument. Understand the root cause. Create an atmosphere in which the best idea succeeds, regardless of who or where it comes from.
- Maximise Impact - Care about the impact of your work. Find the thing that is most important to your customer. Design the best solution, not just what’s easiest or fashionable. Get it done fast. Make sure nothing falls through the cracks.
Company HQ
Old Street, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Marc Warner
(CEO)Previously a Marie Curie Fellow in Physics at Harvard University, specialising in quantum sensing.
Andrew Brookes
(CTO)Previously a CTO at Hillgate and Vice President at BlackRock.
Angie Ma
(Co-Founder)Previously a Scientific Consultant at Bio Nano Consulting.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Faculty
Angie Ma (Co-Founder)
- AI changes everything, and so must we to make sure our people reflect the real diversity of society. We believe that recruiting talent with diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds encourages people to think differently and be more creative
- We welcome difference whether it’s ethnicity, religion, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation or disability so please be yourself!
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