Senior FP&A Analyst (Modelling)

Senior FP&A Analyst (Modelling)LondonFP&A – FP&A /Employee - Permanent /Hybridapply for this jobOur Story   Hello there. We’re Zopa.   We started our journey back in 2005, building the first ever peer-to-peer lending company. Fast forward to 2020 and we launched Zopa Bank. A bank that listens to what our customers don’t like about finance and does the opposite. We’re redefining what it feels like to work in finance. Our vision for a new era of banking puts people front and centre — we’ve built a business that empowers everyone to aim high, every day, to move finance forward. Find out more about our fantastic offerings at Zopa.com!    We’re incredibly proud of our achievements and none of it would be possible without the amazing team here. It’s not just industry awards we’re winning, we’ve also been named in the top three UK’s Most Loved Workplaces.    If you embrace unconventional challenges, are unafraid to think differently and are driven to make an outsized impact, you’ll thrive here at Zopa, so join us, and make it count. Want to see us in action? Follow us on Instagram @zopalife We’re looking for a Financial Analyst with strong analytical and data skills as well as financial modelling experience to help build, enhance and scale Zopa’s planning and forecasting capabilities. This is a hands-on modelling role, focused on developing robust FP&A models, improving data flows and creating decision-ready outputs that support long-term planning, scenario analysis, capital management and strategic investment decisions.  The successful candidate will work closely with Finance, Risk, Treasury, Product and Technology stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable models and intuitive user experiences. The role offers the opportunity to shape how Zopa uses the latest tools to improve the quality and efficiency of key planning processes, and build tools used by senior stakeholders including ExCo, the Board and external stakeholders. A day in the life: Build and improve core financial models and outputs across P&L, balance sheet, regulatory capital, product forecasts, stress testing and scenario analysis, helping to create decision-ready insight for senior stakeholders.  Proactively identify data, systems or process issues; communicate implications clearly; and drive practical, sustainable improvements to modelling, reporting and planning processes.  Build a strong understanding of Zopa’s products, financial drivers and business model to support effective planning, forecasting and scenario analysis.  Design, build, enhance and maintain Anaplan models, modules, lists, actions, UX pages and related planning processes, ensuring they are robust, scalable, well-controlled and easy for stakeholders to use.  Own or support data flows into and out of Anaplan, including imports, exports, reconciliations, source-data understanding and opportunities for automation, integration and process simplification.  Partner with Product, Risk, Treasury, Finance and Data / Technology teams to improve planning processes and enable more insightful, intuitive reporting and decision support.  Improve model governance and documentation, reducing technical debt, strengthening controls and making key assumptions, definitions, logic and dependencies transparent.  Support core FP&A activities, including  budgeting, long-term planning and running scenarios, while helping to automate, simplify and scale core planning processes over time.  About you: You are comfortable working with data and planning systems such as Anaplan, with an understanding of data quality, reconciliations, system dependencies, integration points and opportunities for automation. Experience with AI tools, Python, ETL / data pipelines, BI tools, APIs would be advantageous.  You have strong financial modelling and analytical skills, with a structured approach to model design, documentation, testing, controls and governance.  You bring strong problem-solving skills,...