Lendable

Principal FP&A Analyst

Lendable

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • United Kingdom

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

PythonSQL

About the role

  • Build, maintain, and continuously refine sophisticated financial models to support budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning across current and future products including scenario, sensitivity, and stress-testing analysis
  • Design, build, and maintain analytical dashboards that surface key financial and operational metrics, enabling fast, confident decision-making across the business
  • Serve as the primary finance partner to product, data, and engineering teams; owning alignment on metrics, data definitions, and reporting standards to ensure a single source of financial truth
  • Champion the effective use of FP&A tooling (Abacum) and evaluate emerging technologies including ML/AI where they can meaningfully improve forecast accuracy or reporting efficiency
  • Leverage LLMs and generative AI to enhance FP&A productivity, enabling automated reporting narratives, faster variance commentary, and intelligent summarisation for senior stakeholders, design a team of AI agents handling most of the heavy lifting
  • Where needed use Python, SQL, and other analytical tools
  • Take ownership of financial governance from data inputs and model integrity through to output quality and auditability
  • Translate complex financial and operational data into clear, actionable insights for senior stakeholders, proactively surfacing trends, risks, and opportunities rather than waiting to be asked
  • Identify and lead automation initiatives across the finance team.

Requirements

  • Strong academic background in a quantitative discipline; mathematics, engineering, computer science, or similar
  • Solid understanding of P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow statements
  • Experience building financial models
  • Proficient in SQL and Python
  • Comfortable using generative AI tools (Claude, Gemini)
  • You would instinctively question metric definitions
  • You thrive in ambiguity, move fast, and bring rigour with you.
Benefits
  • Best-in-class compensation, including equity.
  • You can work from home every Monday and Friday if you wish - on the other days, those based in the UK come together IRL at our Shoreditch office in London to be together, build and exchange ideas.
  • Enjoy a fully stocked kitchen with everything you need to whip up breakfast, lunch, snacks, and drinks 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 looking to make Lendable the most inclusive and open workspace in London.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
financial modelingbudgetingforecastingscenario analysissensitivity analysisstress-testing analysisdata analysisautomationSQLPython
Soft Skills
decision-makingalignmentcommunicationproactivequestioningadaptabilityrigour