FP&A Analyst, Zen Educate
£35-45k
+ Equity
Excel
Google Sheets
Xero
Mid and Senior level
London
3 days a week in office
Education recruitment platform
Posted today
Education recruitment platform
201-500 employees
B2BMarketplaceEducationRecruitment
Posted today
£35-45k
+ Equity
Excel
Google Sheets
Xero
Mid and Senior level
London
3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
B2BMarketplaceEducationRecruitment
Company mission
To make a positive impact and bring about meaningful change within the education recruitment sector.
Role
Who you are
- Commercial curiosity: You have a genuine interest in the core drivers of the business, and you want to understand why the numbers move
- Attention to detail: You notice when a number looks wrong, and you don't rest until you know why. People can rely on what you send them
- Analytical rigour: You structure problems before you solve them. You test your assumptions, and you can explain the logic behind every number in your model
- Clear communicator: You can turn analysis into a short, confident message for a non-finance audience, and you're comfortable sharing your point of view and insights with senior stakeholders
- Proactive ownership: You see things through. When you take on a report or a project, you take full responsibility for delivering the outcome, proactively seeking out the support and resources you need
- Systems and efficiency enthusiast: Manual, repeated work bothers you. You'd rather spend an afternoon automating a task than an hour doing it every week
- 3+ years in FP&A, strategic finance, business analysis, or other analytical role with exposure to budgeting, forecasting and month-end management reporting
- Advanced Excel and Google Sheets skills, including building integrated models from scratch. BI Tools and coding languages are beneficial but not required
- A degree in a numerate subject, or an accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA or CIMA), complete or in progress
- Experience in a high-growth, fast-paced organisation
What the job involves
- We're hiring an FP&A Analyst / Business Partner to help lead that shift
- This is not a role where you inherit a polished machine and keep it ticking
- You'll help build it
- You'll own core reporting, sit at the centre of our budget and reforecast cycles, and be the finance partner our Regional Directors call when they need an answer they can act on
- We're looking for someone with real rigour and a genuine itch for efficiency: the kind of person who automates a process once, removing manual steps to make room for strategic insight
- If you are excited by a role with strategic, measurable impact whilst collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders, we'd love to meet you
- Own a core set of weekly and monthly management reports end to end
- Take reports that are manual today and make them faster, more consistent and more automated each cycle
- Write the commentary, not just the numbers: explain what moved, why it moved and what we should do about it
- Play a central role in our annual budget and termly reforecasts, which run on a school-year calendar across the UK and US
- Build and maintain driver-based models for revenue, headcount and costs, keeping them accurate, auditable and easy for others to use
- Run variance analysis (actual vs. budget vs. forecast) and turn it into clear, prioritised insight for leadership
- Act as a finance partner to our Regional Directors and commercial leads, joining monthly performance reviews and helping them understand the levers behind their numbers
- Lead analysis on unit economics, marketing return on investment, and regional performance
- Support investment and pricing decisions with clear cost-benefit analysis, including where the data is incomplete and judgement is required
- Be the person who makes our finance stack work harder: Abacum, Xero, Hibob, Pleo and our BI tools
- Reconcile data across systems and fix problems at the source, not just in the spreadsheet
- Spot the next process to automate and build it, whether that's with formulas, scripts or AI tools
- Document how things work in Coda, so knowledge lives in the team rather than in one person's head
Application process
- Initial chat: A quick screen with our Talent team to align on expectations, salary and timing
- Hiring manager call: A conversation with our Head of FP&A about your experience, how you approach analysis and what you want from your next role
- Modelling and analysis task: A take-home task based on a realistic Zen scenario, followed by a debrief where you walk us through your thinking
- Values-based conversation: A chat with a member of our leadership team about mindset, ways of working and your growth goals
Salary benchmarks
Our take
With UK schools under immense financial pressure, Zen Educate is providing a smarter approach to education staffing. Recruitment in schools often relies on inefficient and expensive practices. Zen Educate is focused on tackling the pain points in the industry and providing a way to ensure schools get the best teachers possible.
It provides an online platform as an alternative to recruitment agencies, which is the only online platform accredited by the UK's Department of Education, helping schools fill staffing needs quickly and cost-effectively. Schools using the platform have reportedly saved 20-30% on supply cover costs.
On top of this, the company has also raised significant funding to support acquisitions in the UK and the US, plus the expansion of its operations and offering.
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Top investors
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Aug 2025
$17.7m
SERIES B
May 2024
$37m
SERIES B
Total funding: $102.4m
Company benefits
- Macbook and tech equipment provided
- Regular "lunch 'n' learns" every month on a range of topics
- Investment in your professional development
- Regular socials
- Ownership in the company
- Pension scheme
- 25 days of holidays + all UK public holidays off
- Central London dog-friendly office with perks like fresh fruit, bike parking, showers, and an on-site gym and café
- Life insurance
- Vitality health insurance and benefits
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Electric Car Scheme
Company values
- Commit to the mission- We commit to our mission, our customers, and our teams. We work hard because we care more
- Choose greatness over comfort- Greatness and comfort rarely coexist. We seek greatness. We understand success takes grit & determination so we seek colleagues that possess it
- Act like an owner- We all take responsibility for driving the company forward and making it a success. If we see something that could be better, we fix it. We offer stock options to all employees
- Help each other be better- Every person at Zen is someone we can respect and learn from
- A culture of trust- We hire people who are great at their jobs and we let them get on with it while being there to lend a hand when needed
- Challenge the status quo- We take action when we can see opportunities for improvement. We are in it to make our customers' lives better and to fix a broken system
- Embrace learning over perfection- We make decisions quickly and we don't hesitate. We may disagree with a decision, but we support the team and the mission by committing to it. We embrace making unknowable mistakes and learning from them
Company HQ
HQ, London
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Leadership
Slava Kremerman
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a member of the Leadership Team at Nutmeg a FS startup, they also worked at Barclays and Aon.
Oren Cohen
(Co-Founder & Chief Customer Officer)Ran the UK office of Optimizely, a Silicon Valley tech company. Prior to this, they worked at G-STAT and Intel.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Zen Educate
- At Zen, we strive to build a culture of equity and inclusion, where everyone is respected, valued and appreciated for their unique traits, experiences and perspectives. We are committed to creating a safe, inclusive and equitable environment where our team can thrive, regardless of age, ethnicity, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, disability, religion or beliefs. We value our differences and believe that practices of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion help us create a fairer, more compassionate environment for all
- We welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds and different experiences and perspectives — just like the staff who teach through Zen and the children at the schools we work with. We believe in hiring the best people from the widest pool and creating an inclusive culture where people’s voices are heard and all our team can look forward to coming to work
- We are committed to building a team that reflects the diversity of our community and promoting an equitable and inclusive environment for all. We seek out diverse opinions, beliefs, and experiences because they collectively make us stronger; we’ve had former teachers, pilots, fundraisers, engineers, lawyers, marketers, social media experts and more join our team
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