Senior FP&A Manager

  • London
  • Full Time (Permanent)
  • Hybrid
  • Finance

About the role

We’re looking for a Senior FP&A Manager to lead our financial planning and performance management for the entire group (UK, US, MX).

Reporting into the VP of Finance, this will role partner closely with senior stakeholders (including C-Suite), providing them with insight, constructive challenge, and forward looking analysis to support strategic decision making.

This role suits a hands-on finance professional with the vision and drive to build a “best-in class” FP&A function, free from heavy legacy processes. It offers a strong platform to shape how the business plans, measures performance, and makes decisions, with clear scope to make a lasting impact.

Key responsibilities

  • Manage the group’s forecasting and planning processes, including ownership of the annual planning cycle and regular updates to core financial models (P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow)

  • Design, build, and enhance FP&A processes, models, and reporting frameworks from first principles, supporting a planning and performance capability that scales with the business

  • Drive the adoption of our core FP&A reporting platform (Abacum), including design of data models, reporting structures, dimensionality and reporting cadence

  • Lead monthly P&L reporting, variance analysis, and KPI tracking for senior leadership and product MDs, preparation and delivery of board and executive reporting packs

  • Partner with product and commercial teams to support new product launches, providing financial analysis, business case modelling, and go/no-go decision support from initial concept through to launch and growth

  • Maintain a very strong working knowledge of the company’s financial models, with a detailed understanding of underlying business drivers, assumptions, and sensitivities

  • Leverage all tools available; LLMs, generative AI, and emerging FP&A technologies to drive step-change improvements in reporting speed, forecast accuracy, and productivity

  • Uphold high standards of data governance and financial modelling across the organisation, ensuring reliable and auditable decision support as data sources and automation scale

About you

  • Qualified Accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA)

  • Experience in a similar role (finance, FP&A, strategic finance, etc.) in a fast-growing fintech or tech startup

  • Strong financial modelling, forecasting and analytical skills and experience working with FP&A softwares, platforms and advanced Excel / Sheets

  • Commercially minded, with the ability to influence stakeholders, challenge constructively, and communicate clearly, building effective working relationships at all levels across the organisation.

  • Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving work environment with a high degree of ownership

  • Proficiency in coding, ideally SQL, preferable but not required

The interview process:

  • A quick remote call with one of the hiring team and follow-up 15 minute cognitive assessment.

  • A remote call with the VP of Finance.

  • A 90 minute on site case exercise (P&L, cash flow, and write up), followed by a short debrief.

  • A 60 minute on site interview with finance leadership and other members of the senior leadership team.

About Lendable

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Lendable is on a mission to build the world's best technology to help people get credit and save money.

  • Founded in 2014

  • Profitable since 2017

  • Unicorn in 2021

  • £3.5bn valuation in 2022

  • Backed by Balderton, Goldman Sachs and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan

  • Loved by customers & employees with top reviews on Glassdoor and Trustpilot

So far, we’ve rebuilt the big three consumer finance products from scratch: loans, credit cards and car finance. We get money into our customers’ hands in minutes instead of days. We’re growing fast, and there’s a lot more to do. We’re going after the two biggest Western markets (UK and US) where trillions are held by big banks with dated systems and painful processes.

Life at Lendable

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  • The opportunity to scale up one of the world’s most successful fintech companies

  • Best-in-class compensation, including equity

  • You can work from home every Monday and Friday if you wish - on the other days we all come together IRL to be together, build and exchange ideas

  • Our in-house chefs prepare fresh, healthy lunches in the office every Tuesday-Thursday

  • We care for our Lendies’ well-being both physically and mentally, so we offer coverage when it comes to private health insurance

  • We're an equal opportunity employer and are keen to make Lendable the most inclusive and open workspace in London

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