Senior FP&A Analyst, Easol
3-5 days a week in office
All-in-one platform for experience businesses
Be an early applicant
All-in-one platform for experience businesses
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
3-5 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To enable a generation of experience creators to love what they do.
Role
Who you are
- Qualified accountant with a few years of audit or comparable accounting / commercial finance experience in a professional services environment
- 2 - 3+ years of experience working in FP&A or commercial finance functions outside of a professional services environment
- Some of that will have been in a scale-up / high-growth / tech environment
- Experience in SaaS, Marketplace and / or Fintech business models would be a plus
- Proven commercial acumen - you must be able to cut through noise and leverage data to derive commercial insights and drive value for the business
- Great communication skills - you’ll have to work closely with internal as well as external stakeholders who are not always financially proficient or comfortable with data; being able to translate their insights into data and learnings is central to this role’s success
- Great analytical skills, proficient in modelling, data analysis and manipulation (ideally able to use data queries)
What the job involves
- As senior FP&A Analyst, you will play a pivotal role in running and developing our FP&A capabilities
- This is a very ‘commercial’ FP&A role - you’ll work closely with account managers, creators and other stakeholders to understand their business cycles, trends, etc
- Your insights will help us forecast revenue accurately, optimize financial performance, and support decision-making at both operational and strategic levels
- Forecasting and Budgeting: Own, develop, refine, and maintain financial models to forecast revenue, transaction volumes, and other key metrics
- Performance Analysis: Monitor and analyze financial performance, identifying trends, risks, and opportunities to provide actionable insights and recommendations to improve gross margins, and operational efficiency - as well as forecasting accuracy
- Regularly review and update data underpinning our forecasts, e.g. transactional volumes
- Work closely with Account Managers and Creators directly to forecast volumes
- Identify investment as well as cost saving opportunities, working closely with teams across the business to integrate the benefits of financial thinking more generally at Easol
- Develop new, data-driven and scalable processes that will allow us to improve the accuracy and efficiency or our forecasting (partnering with Data Engineers where applicable)
- Prepare and present regular financial reports and forecasts to the team, board, investors, etc. and support the preparation of board materials and investor updates
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Easol was founded in 2017 by husband and wife team Ben and Lisa Simpson with the intention of becoming the world's first all-in-one SaaS platform for experience commerce. The company aims to bring vital experience commerce tools all into one synchronised place.
Easol empowers entrepreneurs by removing the need to outsource their business to traditional e-commerce platforms, booking platforms or experience marketplaces such as Airbnb. This appeals directly to bosses looking to maintain full ownership of their business, and to streamline the labour-intensive and hands-on booking and tracking processes.
The company is taking advantage of the growing experience market, as more and more businesses are founded to provide the rising demand for unforgettable experiences. After a difficult few years, the experience market is set to boom, and Easol has enjoyed a $30 million funding round in 2024, which will be used to invest in their US presence off the back of opening a hub in New York.
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Insights
Company
Employee endorsements
Meaningful work
"Since joining I've seen a constant stream of positive feedback from our creators. Our platform is genuinely saving them time and money and allowing..."
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2024
$30m
SERIES A
Apr 2022
$0.1m
GRANT
Total funding: $59.8m
Company benefits
- 25 days of holidays plus public holidays
- Equity
- Gym Membership worth £30
- Headspace membership
- Development & Coaching Budget
- £1,000 Personal Deep Week Budget
- Design your own Setup Budget
- £35 per month mobile phone contribution
Company HQ
Shepherd's Bush, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Ben Simpson
(CEO & Co-Founder)They were the managing director of youth marketing and experience agency Rough Hill. They co-founded Rise Festival in Les 2 Alps and Running Wild, an event promotion organisation.
Lisa Simpson
(Chief Brand Officer & Co-Founder)They obtained a masters from Warwick University. They were a creative project manager at Rough Hill, and worked for Action Aid for over 4 years. They co-found Rise Festival and Easol.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Easol
Lisa (Simpson)
- There is an open forum for you to have your say in what we do and how we do it. We empower our team to share their ideas!
- Employees of all backgrounds and physical abilities will be supported by us in every way possible to thrive.
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