Finance and Analytics Manager, Perlego
£65k
SQL
Excel
Google Sheets
Hubspot
Xero
Mid and Senior level
London
2+ days a week in office
Online library of 1,000,000 academic resources
Posted today
Online library of 1,000,000 academic resources
101-200 employees
B2CB2BEducationLearningDigital Media
Posted today
£65k
SQL
Excel
Google Sheets
Hubspot
Xero
Mid and Senior level
London
2+ days a week in office
101-200 employees
B2CB2BEducationLearningDigital Media
Company mission
To become the world’s online learning library, a single place where learners can instantly access all of the world’s academic content for less than the price of a single book. Perlego are on a mission to make learning accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- A confident self-starter who can operate with autonomy — you know what good looks like and can hold yourself and others to that standard
- Fully qualified or part-qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent), with solid hands-on experience in management accounting and month-end close
- Analytically strong with a genuine appetite for data — comfortable working with large datasets, BI tools, or SQL, and not just pulling pre-built reports
- An experienced reviewer and improver of financial processes — you've seen what good looks like and know how to get there
- Comfortable managing a direct report and holding them accountable for the quality of BAU outputs
- An excellent communicator — able to translate complex financial and data outputs into clear narratives for non-finance audiences
- Comfortable prioritising across a mixed workload of close responsibilities and project work, without one crowding out the other
- Highly proficient with Excel or Google Sheets; familiar with Xero or a similar cloud accounting platform
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Finance and Analytics Manager who is as comfortable producing a clean set of management accounts as they are querying a dataset or building a RevOps dashboard
- This is a genuinely cross-functional role — roughly split 60% Finance and 40% across our RevOps and Data functions — and it's ideal for someone who wants breadth without losing their technical accounting roots
- You'll sit in the Finance team, reporting directly to the Head of Finance, with a Management Accountant underneath you handling the day-to-day postings, payment runs and ledger BAU
- That means your focus is on producing high-quality month-end reporting and spending the rest of your time on projects: improving financial processes, supporting RevOps, and working with our Data team
- You won't be doing everything from scratch — we have a strong team around you — but you will be expected to review, challenge, and improve what's already in place, whilst bringing your own analytical lens to the commercial side of the business
- Ideally you'll be comfortable dealing with ambiguity, have a strong accounting foundation, and genuinely enjoy turning data into decisions
- You'll thrive here if you're a confident self-starter who can own things end-to-end and hold the team to a high standard
- The Finance team consists of a Head of Finance, this role (Finance and Analytics Manager), and a Management Accountant who handles BAU posting, payment runs and ledger maintenance
- You'll be the layer between the Management Accountant's outputs and the Head of Finance's reporting — responsible for the quality and accuracy of what goes upward, and for driving the project work that goes sideways across the business
- Collaboration: you'll work closely with the Head of Finance and Management Accountant within Finance, and with cross-functional leads in RevOps and Data on project work
- Communication: you'll regularly translate financial outputs and data analysis into clear narratives for senior leadership and department heads
- Innovation: we will both encourage and expect you to identify and drive process improvements — from how we close the books to how we track commercial performance
- Month-end reporting & financial control:
- Own the month-end close — ensuring journals, reconciliations and postings are accurate and complete, with insightful management accounts and variance commentary ready on time
- Maintain a high standard of ledger integrity in Xero, reviewing coding and treatment across the business and resolving issues as they arise
- Take ownership of key technical accounting areas: accruals, prepayments, payroll journals and balance sheet reconciliations
- Oversee AP and payment processes, including royalty schedules — making sure things run cleanly and on schedule
- Support regulatory and compliance obligations: VAT returns, corporation tax inputs, R&D claims, share-based payment accounting and intercompany positions
- Support year-end close and audit preparation, working alongside the Head of Finance and external auditors
- Financial planning & analysis:
- Feed into the budgeting and reforecasting cycles — building and maintaining the supporting models, schedules and workings that underpin the plan
- Develop and maintain KPI and metric reporting, ensuring consistency across B2B and DTC revenue streams
- Contribute to board and leadership reporting with clear financial analysis and commentary
- Proactively surface trends, risks and opportunities in the numbers before they become surprises
- Project work: RevOps, Data & process improvement (~40% of role):
- Partner with the RevOps function to build and maintain dashboards and reports tracking revenue performance, pipeline health, and commercial metrics
- Work with the Data team to extract, clean, and analyse datasets — translating raw data into clear financial and commercial insight
- Support subscriber metrics, cohort analysis and attribution modelling relevant to our subscription business
- Identify and lead initiatives to automate or improve finance and reporting processes — from close workflows to data pipelines between Stripe, HubSpot and Xero
- Act as a finance-literate partner to non-finance stakeholders who need data to make decisions quickly
- In 3 months:
- You've taken clear ownership of the month-end close and management accounts are landing on time, accurately, and with minimal rework
- You have a solid understanding of Perlego's financial operations, key business drivers, and how Finance interacts with the rest of the business
- You've built a strong working rhythm with the Management Accountant and have a clear view of what needs improving
- You've identified at least one process or data flow opportunity and have a plan to address it
- In 6 months:
- You've made meaningful improvements to the close process — less manual effort, better output quality, tighter timelines
- You're actively contributing to financial models and forecasting, taking work off the Head of Finance's plate on the build side
- Cross-functional partners in RevOps and Data are pulling you in proactively — you're a trusted resource outside of Finance
- You've delivered at least one end-to-end project that has measurably improved a financial process, reporting output, or commercial data flow
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Perlego is pitched as a “Spotify for textbooks,” enabling students, and also professionals, who make up 30% of users, to access textbooks on a subscription basis.
They have over 1 million books from 2,300+ publishers across multiple languages. For the students, the benefit is obvious: text books are increasingly expensive to purchase, and public libraries are under resourced.
In the U.K., Perlego gives readers access to its entire digital library for £12 per month. For publishers, Perlego claims to offer a distribution method that stems revenue losses caused by piracy and the buoyant used text book market.
Perlego say they're getting a 100% increase in new subscribers month-on-month, which is very strong traction to build on. With over 15 million users on the Perlego database, growth should continue smoothly.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Meet the team
30 people
Camille, Engineering Manager
Our mission
Build and maintain our platform, deliver the best learning experience, and support business growth through technical integrations and wizardry.Insights
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"You'll get the chance to work on interesting projects, as long as you put yourself forward for them. Within the engineering team, we have time set..."
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Oct 2024
$20m
LATE VC
Mar 2022
$50m
SERIES B
Total funding: $85.1m
Company benefits
- 🏠 Flexible: We operate a flexible hybrid working environment. If you’re based in London, we’d expect to see you in the office twice a week, if you’re outside of London we’d expect to see you at least 6 times a quarter (hopefully at our quarterly socials 💃). If you’re looking for a 100% remote role, this one is not for you. At Perlego, we empower you to work in a way that supports your needs and your life. We trust people to know what works best for them. We are flexible if you wish to work remotely overseas for short-periods of time, as long as you remain a UK tax resident 🗺
- 🌱 Unlimited Coaching Opportunities: Unlimited access to MoreHappi, an on-demand professional coaching platform to offer all employees access to unbiased and professional coaching opportunities
- 🤓 Learning Time: All employees have dedicated Learning Time
- 🌴 Work-Life Balance: Everyone needs a break, so enjoy 30 days off (incl. bank holidays) + 1 additional day annual leave for every year of service (up to 35 days)
- 🛐 Flexi Bank Holidays: We understand that not everyone aligns to the same calendar; we offer the flexibility to take your local countries bank holiday allowance for other religious or cultural days E.g. switch UK Easter Bank Holidays Days for Eid celebrations
- ❄️ Office Reset: All employees an also enjoy the days between Boxing Day and New Year off, to reset and refresh for the New Year - this is additional to your annual leave 🙂
- 🏖 Sabbatical: After three years there is an opportunity to take a 1-month unpaid sabbatical, and after five years there is an opportunity to take a 1-month paid sabbatical
- 💛 Personal Days: Life happens and we want you to be able to use your annual leave for resting, relaxing or taking time out to do something you love! We offer 1 additional day a year for life events (your wedding, relocation, moving house, or a child starting school)
- 🍏 Health & Wellbeing: We want everyone to feel healthy and happy, so we offer private medical insurance via Vitality.
- 💭 Mental Health: All employees get access to therapy and counselling through Vitality
- 🚲 Cycle to Work Scheme: We're committed to building a sustainable business, so we encourage cycling to work. Perlego will buy your bike of choice, which you'll pay back over 12 months
- 🎉 Social: We're a tight-knit bunch who enjoy our time to play. We have regular social events and activities for everyone - everything from white water rafting to board game nights
- 🍼 Family time: We believe family is really important; we offer new parents a competitive matched parental leave as well as phased return to work after 6 months leave.
- 👼 Workplace Nursery Benefit: We want to support working parents and carers, so we offer a workplace nursery benefit scheme, helping our employees potentially save thousands of £££ against the cost of nurseries each year
Company values
- We are leaders - We empower our users and each other to grow. We are passionate and proactive, taking ownership of the work we do, always striving to be better and embracing challenges, together, without fear of failure
- We learn - We know the power of knowledge. We are curious, brave and never stop trying new things - always striving to continue learning and to share knowledge with each other and our users
- We are open - We’re open & inclusive in how we build our product & the people we choose to build our product & business. We’re transparent in our communication: with users & each other, always willing to listen, learn and take on feedback
- We care - We care about our users/publishers/partners & about creating a more fair and sustainable solution for learners globally. We care about our impact on the world and each other. We think before we act and act with kindness, always
- What you’ll get - At Perlego we believe in the key role you will play to achieve our shared mission. You'll belong to a culture of dreamers, team players and avid learners with a flexible, value-based approach. Here, you can become your best self, and through your talent, make a real impact in the world of education
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Serial founder, having previously started Iconic Matter, a youth oriented marketing company
Matt Davis
(CTO)Started Perlego straight after his degree in Computer Science at Warwick
People breakdown
40%
60%
Female
Male
Last updated on 04 November 2024
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Perlego
Ashleigh Otter (COO)
- Perlego's mission is to make education accessible to all. Beyond our product, we believe we have a responsibility to support diverse communities to have equal opportunity within our industry.
- We have partnered with LMF, a global not for profit focused on empowering, enabling & educating women and minority groups into tech, entrepreneurship & digital. Our VP of People, VP of Product, Design Director, Partner Success Director & Partner Success Manager have all signed up to be mentors to women who are breaking into the tech/digital industry
- We have also invested in a Perlego Scholarship & Bursary program to support people from diverse backgrounds in the US & the UK to receive education in computer science and/or engineering
- We try and foster an environment and culture of openness, to encourage and allow everyone to bring their authentic selves to work *(this well never be 'done' and is constantly evolving as we learn how to improve)*
- When recruiting, we are proactive in our hiring process to ensure all pipelines are balanced, and we use assessment methods to remove bias from the interview process. We also offer a flexible interview process, which can be tailored to each candidates needs/availability, and make sure we are using a broad range of hiring platforms, making sure to actively include platforms that are accessed by a broad spectrum of candidates
- This is by no means an exhaustive list of activities. As an ed-tech company we value learning, and we're committed to continuing to learn and better ourselves
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