Finance Business Partner
Digital Science
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Drive financial performance and strategic insight across Enterprise and Government, Funders and Non Profit (GFN) segments
- Optimise subscription economics and support decision-making with deep financial insights
- Work cross-functionally to deliver improved segment financial performance and align financial planning with product and growth roadmaps
- Act as a key finance advisor to the EVP of the Enterprise and GFN segments and for the Customer function
- Ensure the business is challenged to think commercially and be the subject matter expert on financial issues
- Build robust financial models and dashboards for scenario planning and strategic decision-making
- Deliver well-reasoned, realistic forecasts and budgets with clear storytelling for non-financial partners
- Partner with analytics and systems teams to improve financial reporting infrastructure and visibility
- Own forecasting and tracking of KPIs including MRR/ARR, subscriber growth and churn, sales cycle length, customer profitability, conversion rates, sales pipeline analytics and segment profitability
- Identify performance trends, risks and opportunities and influence business action to address them
- Deliver insightful and actionable business reporting
Requirements
- Residency in UK, Spain, Germany or Romania (applications outside these areas will not be considered)
- Finance partnering experience preferably from a SAAS or subscription revenue background
- Experience in organisations ~500+ employees with responsibilities including managing budgets, reporting, forecasting, and influencing business decisions
- Ability to analyse data, draw conclusions and explain findings to non-finance business partners
- Ability to communicate with business partners at all levels
- Ability to support and challenge business partners appropriately
- Commercial mindset
- ‘Can do’ attitude and desire for continuous improvement
- Strong spreadsheet modelling and forecasting skills
- Experience using FP&A tools such as Anaplan and NetSuite
Benefits
- We invest in, nurture and support innovative businesses and technologies that make all parts of the research process more open, efficient and effective.
- Living our Values: brave in the pursuit of better
- Collaborative and inclusive culture
- Always open-minded
- From and for the community
- Vision: see research flow seamlessly – trusted, collaborative, and accessible
- Equal opportunity employer committed to building and nurturing an inclusive workplace where every individual feels valued
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
financial modelingforecastingbudgetingdata analysisKPI trackingsubscription economicsfinancial reportingscenario planningsales pipeline analyticscommercial analysis
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationinfluencingproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingadaptabilitycontinuous improvementcommercial mindsetstorytellingstakeholder management