Senior Finance Business Partner

We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.

We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.

After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with us. 

With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!

We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️

London | £84,200 - £99,000 + incentive awards tied to your performance + Benefits | Hear from the team ✨

⭐ Our Commercial Finance team

Our Finance team is growing and we are looking for a Senior Finance Business Partner to join the Commercial finance team and support the Marketing and Growth teams. You will work in a team that manages the P&L and Balance Sheet to deliver on the financial plan, supports the business in strategic financial decisions and challenges to improve performance.The role covers all aspects of financial performance and planning and you will own the end-to-end financials and financial controls for your business area. 

The right candidate will enjoy supporting and challenging the business across new initiatives, love to build business cases, present and debate investment choices and be comfortable with analysing data to deliver insights and thinking about broader strategic choices. 

You’ll play a key role by…

• Being the single point of contact between the business and finance
• Taking end to end ownership of the Growth and Marketing budget, including all costs (brand, performance, non-working) and new customer growth forecast. 
• Building trusted relationships with the business leadership team. Showing genuine curiosity about products, marketing, and operations and engaging with growth levers and profitability drivers
• Driving and optimising commercial performance of the Growth and Marketing Collective through actionable insights on acquisition performance, CAC, customer quality, LTV and payback. 
• Holding the business leadership to account for delivery of forecast performance and helping them to course correct as well as anticipate future risks and opportunities
• Leading on the preparation of bottom-up forecasts, both short and long range, working closely with the FP&A team to support the planning and stress testing cycle 
• Understanding and explaining actual performance to support FP&A and Investor Relations to create appropriate narrative
• Contributing to the overall Monzo equity story
• Supporting the build of a highly competent and motivated team of financial analysts with clear objectives for ongoing development to partner with existing and new businesses
• Leading business partnering for your specific area and help to represent the company’s commercial dynamics to the wider team

We’d love to hear from you if you..

• Have demonstrable experience in financial business partnering, preferably having previous experience partnering with Marketing and/or Growth teams.
• Are qualified with a relevant professional qualification
• Hold strong financial modelling (advanced Excel/Google Sheets/Anaplan) experience
• Have great analytical & problem solving skills, with the ability to identify trends, issues and recommend actions 
• Hold good communication, interpersonal & influencing skills, ability to engage across various internal functions to develop, prioritise, get buy-in and deliver outcomes across teams
• Have the ability to confidently present data in a meaningful and effective way; understanding the needs of the end users and tailoring presentations to their requirements
• Have experience building strong, trusted relationships with stakeholders at all levels
• Have experience building business cases, presenting and debating investment choices
• Demonstrate ability to be hands-on and enjoy supporting colleagues, projects or tasks both big or small
• Have strong attention to detail and organisational skills, able to support with developing new processes and streamlining existing processes to create efficiencies
• Can demonstrate SQL, data analysis experience and experience using forecasting tools

What’s in it for you

£84,200 - £99,000 + incentive awards tied to your performance

This role is based in our London office

⏰ We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team. 

£1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.

We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup. 

➕ Plus lots more! Read our full list of benefits.

The application journey has 4 key steps:
- Phone call with recruiter (30mins)
- Video call with hiring manager (30 mins)
- Video call with hiring manager + member of finance (45 min)
- Video call with business stakeholders (45 mins)

This process should take around 3 - 4 weeks, your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible!

We have some guidelines on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ace an application and interview at Monzo  You can read them here.

You’ll hear from us throughout the application process, but if you’ve got any questions, please reach out to hiring@monzo.com. You can also use this email address to let us know if there’s anything we can do to make the process easier for you because of disability, neurodiversity or anything else.

We’ll only close this role once we have enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to make sure you don’t miss out.

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Equal opportunities for everyone

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2024 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2024 Gender Pay Gap Report.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.

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