Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

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Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

Department: Finance

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: London, UK

Reporting To: Ed O'Brien

Compensation: GBP 83,943 - GBP 109,147 / year

Description

Zappi is seeking a highly motivated and hands-on Senior Manager, FP&A to play a pivotal role in supporting initiatives across our growing global business. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, enjoys solving complex financial challenges, and wants to work at the intersection of strategy and execution.

You will serve as the operational owner of the company's core FP&A processes, driving revenue forecasting, financial modelling, and business performance analysis. Partnering closely with leaders across the business, you will translate financial data into actionable insights, helping guide investment decisions, resource allocation, and business growth. In this highly visible role, you will regularly interact with the executive leadership team, influencing commercial decisions and shaping scalable finance practices.

As a senior leader within the finance team, you will manage and mentor the FP&A team, drive process improvement, and ensure the finance function provides timely, accurate, and impactful insights that support both strategic and operational decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the operational owner of the company's FP&A processes, including revenue forecasting, financial modeling, reporting and pricing support.
• Maintain and enhance the company's operating model, integrating revenue drivers, headcount planning, and operating expenses to provide clarity for strategic decisions.
• Partner closely with senior leaders across the business to provide financial insights and analysis that support investment decisions, growth initiatives, and effective resource allocation.
• Lead monthly variance analysis, KPI reporting, and executive-ready dashboards to summarize performance and guide decision-making.
• Build and maintain complex financial models and ad hoc analyses to assess investments, quantify risk, and evaluate return on key initiatives.
• Directly manage and mentor the FP&A team, fostering professional growth and ensuring high-quality analytical output.
• Collaborate across the organization to provide finance perspective on commercial decisions including pricing structures, deal economics, and broader strategic initiatives. Support scalable commercial governance by helping ensure deal structures align with company policies, financial objectives, and long-term operational efficiency.
• Drive continuous improvement in FP&A processes, reporting, and analytics, leveraging systems such as NetSuite, Salesforce, Tableau, and internal BI tools.
• Support monthly and annual planning cycles, including budgeting, long-range planning, and performance review activities.
• Manage multiple concurrent workstreams while maintaining a strong focus on business impact, ensuring analytical outputs are both accurate and actionable.
• Lead or participate in special projects and initiatives to enable business scalability and growth.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• 7+ years of FP&A, corporate finance, or strategic finance experience with increasing responsibility, ideally within SaaS or consumption-based businesses.
• Strong experience in financial modeling, revenue forecasting, and the ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable insights.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and develop high-performing finance team members while working collaboratively across the broader organization.
• Proven ability to provide actionable insights to senior leadership and influence business decisions.
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills; experience with NetSuite, Salesforce, Tableau, or similar systems preferred.
• Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills with experience presenting financial insights and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and maintain attention to detail in a dynamic, fast paced environment.
• Self-motivated, collaborative, and able to build strong cross-functional relationships across global teams.
• High level of personal integrity, professionalism, and commitment to excellence, with a willingness to embrace new challenges and take on additional responsibilities as the business evolves.

Benefits

• Salary range GBP 83,943-GBP 109,147 per annum + 5% bonus. Salaries are benchmarked annually
• Three company-paid mental health days of rest per year (these are pre-scheduled, so the entire company can take the same days off regularly to reset)
• Generous PTO policy - Minimum of 20 days of paid time off per year, plus national holidays. Leave over 30 days requires manager and People team approval.
• Private medical healthcare cover
• Group risk, life & disability contributions
• Flexible working arrangements, including remote (unless otherwise specified)
• Thoughtfully designed offices to support both individual work and collaboration without interrupting others
• Wellbeing benefits such as free yoga and access to trained therapists / counsellors
• Enhanced parental leave policies
• Free lunch in the office Tuesday-Thursday
• Tax efficient pension contributions via salary sacrifice scheme
• Salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme
• Salary sacrifice nursery scheme
• Tailored personal development through training allowances, coaching, mentorship and career frameworks

Why join us?

We've been recognized as one of the hottest martech companies in 2022 by Business Insider and named Best Place to Work by Quirk's Media for our engaging and inclusive workplace culture. We're committed to both people and the planet.

Our belief in inclusion means we're building an organisation of diverse individuals and helping brands eliminate cultural presumptions in their research. Read our Diversity Manifesto here.

We are a values and behaviours driven business and believe that Trust, Truth, Ownership, Ambition and Humility describe Zappi employees on our best day. This is how we strive to show up for our customers, for each other and for our communities.

Earning B Corp certification assures us we're on the right track and have structures in place to become the business we want to be.

Our commitment to minimise our impact on the environment means being honest with ourselves and transparent with you-about everything from carbon emissions to tree-planting initiatives. We achieved our goal of becoming Net Zero in 2021!

Zappi Company Culture Highlights

• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company for Women 2022
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company Work-Life Balance 2022
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company Compensation 2022
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best CEO for Women 2022
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company for Diversity 2022
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company Culture 2022
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best CEO 2022
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Happiness 2022
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Leadership Teams 2023
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best CEOs for Diversity 2023
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Engineering Teams 2023
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company Outlook 2023
• Winner of Newsweek's Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces in the UK 2022 & 2023
• Recognised by Fast Company's Best Workplaces for Innovators 2023
• Winner of Best Marketing Insights Platform in the MarTech Breakthrough Awards 2023 & 2024

Equal Opportunity

Zappi is an equal opportunity employer; our diversity is a major strength. We are committed to providing equal opportunities for all individuals, regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce fosters innovation, creativity, and success. Our hiring decisions are based solely on merit, qualifications, and abilities, ensuring fairness and equity throughout our recruitment process. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and encourage candidates from underrepresented groups to apply. Join our team and contribute to an inclusive environment where everyone's unique perspectives and talents are valued and respected.