Associate Director, FP&A in London

At Bumble, we’re building the Love Company - creating products and experiences that help people form healthy, equitable relationships and friendships.

This role sits at the heart of how we invest in growth: you’ll partner closely with Marketing to translate bold ideas into clear plans, smart trade-offs, and measurable outcomes.

• You’ll bring
• Curiosity and

Courage to complex decisions, pairing sharp commercial judgement with respectful, people-first partnering.

With a strong FP&A team around you, you’ll help raise the bar on how we forecast, learn, and act - using AI thoughtfully to move faster while keeping the work grounded in sound governance and human insight.

• What you’ll do
• Strategically partner with Marketing leadership to shape growth and investment strategies that support Bumble’s long-term direction, role-modeling
• Courage and

Respect in how you challenge and champion decisions.

• Lead Marketing planning rhythms (annual plan, forecasts, and ad hoc deep-dives), bringing thought leadership that connects strategy to spend, KPIs, and outcomes.
• Build and evolve ROI and investment models for Marketing (e. g., CAC/LTV, payback, funnel and cohort dynamics) to guide prioritisation and resource allocation.
• Provide clear visibility of performance across Marketing and the wider business, translating complex data into decision-ready insights that drive accountability against financial targets and operational KPIs.
• Own variance analysis versus plan, identify the “why” behind performance, and influence actions that maximise business outcomes - seeing work through from insight to impact with

Excellence .

• Manage risks and opportunities across the quarter to anticipate landing positions early and enable confident decisions through disciplined scenario planning.
• Partner with User Acquisition and cross-functional teams (e. g., Accounting and Analytics & Data/ADA) to interrogate and synthesise performance from multiple data sources, strengthening measurement and operational rigour.
• Manage, develop, and coach a team - building an inclusive, high-trust environment that sparks

Joy in great work and raises capability across the broader FP&A team through operational efficiency.

About you

• Typically requires 8+ years of experience, though we welcome candidates with alternative backgrounds that demonstrate equivalent skills.
• Significant Commercial Finance/FP&A experience with confident business partnering - able to both champion and constructively challenge senior Marketing stakeholders with
• Respect and

Courage .

• Proven people leadership experience (including 3+ years managing a team of 4+) with a coaching mindset and a track record of developing talent.
• Strong ROI modelling capability for Marketing investments, using unit economics and cohort-based thinking to influence strategic decision-making.
• Comfortable presenting concise, compelling recommendations to senior leaders (SLT/ELT), connecting financial and non-financial performance and driving action.
• Takes ownership end-to-end, collaborates with purpose across functions, and adapts plans with an agile mindset when new information emerges - grounded in
• Curiosity and

Excellence .

• Practically fluent with AI tools in a finance context: using them to accelerate analysis, scenario exploration, and storytelling while applying strong judgement, data privacy, and controls.

Benefits & Perks

• Annual personal learning & development budget
• Private Medical Insurance (PMI)
• Private Dental Insurance
• Babylon Health app
• Mental health support
• Enhanced parental leave, including a highly competitive maternity package
• Unlimited PTO
• Subsidised gym membership
• \"Double matched\" pension contributions up to 6%
• Premium App Access
• Inclusion

Bumble Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and we strongly encourage people of all ages, colour, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and non-binary people, veterans, parents, people with disabilities, and neurodivergent people to apply.

We’re happy to make any reasonable adjustments that will help you feel more confident throughout the process; please don’t hesitate to let us know how we can help.

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