Manager of Commercial Finance & Strategy, Easol
More information about location
3 days a week in office (Bethnal Green, London)
All-in-one platform for experience businesses
Posted today
All-in-one platform for experience businesses
21-100 employees
Posted today
More information about location
3 days a week in office (Bethnal Green, London)
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 or 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 / payments business models would be a bonus
- 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
- Top analytical skills, proficient in modelling, data analysis and manipulation (ideally able to use data queries)
- You’ll enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, where everyone rolls up their sleeves and there is rarely an operating manual to follow - you will be building these out!
- You’ll need to be comfortable with rapid and frequent change, able to pivot accordingly and do so with gusto
- Strong growth mindset - our ambition is for Easol to become a category-defining business, and to achieve that we will have to continuously learn and push boundaries
- You’re process-oriented and enjoy improving setups, documenting them
- Proven commercial acumen - you must be able to cut through noise and leverage data to derive commercial insights and drive value for the business
- You are passionate about experiences, travel and adventure - you’re likely to spend your holidays kite surfing in Sri Lanka, hiking the Nepalese mountains or at an alternative music festival
What the job involves
- This role sits at the heart of Easol’s commercial engine, nominally between Finance and Business Operations (BizOps), with a significant strategy and product component thrown in
- Given the breadth and variety of topics you will cover you will interact closely with all teams across the business
- This is a high-impact role that will shape the future of our business by providing analytics and insights to grow our revenue, improve cost and unit economics, optimise gross margin and much more
- The balance between the Finance and BizOps functions will vary over time as priorities come and go, and you will be able to significantly shape the role as you grow into it
- Forecasting and Budgeting: Own & refine financial models to forecast revenue, margins, spend, cash and other key metrics
- Performance Analysis: Monitor and analyse 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
- Refine our approach to forecasting transaction volumes which underpin our revenue forecasting
- Work closely with Customer Success Managers (CSM) and Creators (Easols' customers) 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. Own BAU relationship with debt & equity investors, reporting, etc
- Pricing & margin: Leverage data and work closely with internal (Sales, CS) and external (pricing experts) stakeholders to improve our customer segmentation, pricing strategies and resulting margins
- Own our Embedded Finance stack: high-margin ancillary revenue streams (FX, insurance, capital, etc.), ensuring that we’re optimising service levels and revenue / margins
- Use data-driven insights to propose, test and roll out improvements (e.g. working with product & engineering to automate our hedging practices to reduce manual intervention and further improve margins on our FX revenue)
- Build out the commercial case for additional revenue opportunities as Easol’s product portfolio evolves (e.g. as we transition to an AI-centric platform)
- Build out agentic AI workflows and be a driving force for improving the way we operate across Finance and BizOps with AI Drive forward commercial analytics to enable better decision-making across the business
- Own Easol’s payment ecosystem, the financial heart of our platform. You’ll oversee the flow of funds across our newly implemented payment aggregator, multiple PSPs, and global markets, driving optimisation of payment margins and operational efficiency
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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
100% employee growth in 12 months
Company
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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