At a Glance
- Tasks: Support strategic finance and planning, manage budgets, and provide financial insights.
- Company: Join Checkout.com, a leading fintech powering global transactions for top brands.
- Benefits: Flexible hybrid work model, career growth opportunities, and a supportive team culture.
- Other info: Embrace a culture of ownership and collaboration with diverse teams across the globe.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a fast-paced environment while shaping the future of fintech.
- Qualifications: 3+ years in FP&A or strategic finance, advanced Excel skills, and strong communication abilities.
The predicted salary is between 56700 - 69300 £ per year.
We’re Checkout.com. You might not know our name, but companies like eBay, Spotify, Klarna, Uber, and Sony do, because we’re behind many of the digital experiences you use every day. We are where the world checks out, enabling over 10 billion transactions yearly for more than one billion global shoppers. Our platform helps the most ambitious businesses deliver effortless digital experiences, at scale.
Checkout.com is looking for a talented and driven Associate to join our Strategic Finance and Planning team in London. This is a critical function implementing new processes in a fast-scaling international organisation. As an Associate Finance Business Partner, you serve as a strategic advisor to our Finance, Legal, Compliance, and Marketing organisations. You act as the primary conduit between these departments and the central Corporate FP&A function, ensuring that annual budgets and quarterly forecasts are accurate reflections of your partners' operational needs.
Your role is to harmonise departmental growth—from headcount to P&L management—with the overarching financial health and scaling strategy of Checkout.com.
What You'll Be Doing
- Business Partnering: Support Executive teams and their direct leadership by ensuring resourcing needs align with the business roadmap.
- Budget Management: Manage the budgeting process by gathering requirements, setting timetables, and ensuring all activities are completed by stakeholders and finance teams.
- Financial Analysis: Produce accurate and thorough financial analysis and commentary presented in a meaningful way to enable senior leaders to make financially sound decisions.
- Reporting: Assist in running key financial processes, including quarterly forecast updates and monthly management information (MI) packs.
- Process Improvement: Enact process changes and best practices to facilitate the flow of information between management accounts and FP&A.
- Decision Support: Provide financial insights and recommendations to support investment and project decisions.
- Data Integrity: Work cross-functionally to ensure data consistency, quality, and appropriateness within group budgets and reporting.
About You
The ideal candidate is proactive, organised, and capable of working independently in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience: 3+ years of specific experience in FP&A, strategic finance, or business analysis.
- Technical Skills: Advanced Excel and Google Sheets skills with a proven ability to synthesise data to form insights.
- Systems: Familiarity with business systems (Adaptive), alteryx, financial planning, and accounting tools.
- Communication: Excellent communicator with the ability to clearly articulate insights and influence/align stakeholders.
- Execution: Self-starter with a track record of identifying problems and implementing solutions with high attention to detail.
- Sector Knowledge: Experience in Financial Services and Payments is a plus, but not essential.
Additional Information
We create the conditions for high performers to thrive, through real ownership, fewer blockers, and work that makes a difference from day one. Here, you’ll move fast, take on meaningful challenges, and be recognized for the impact you deliver. It’s a place where ambition gets met with opportunity, and where your growth is in your hands. We work as one team, and we back each other to succeed.
Our hybrid working model offers flexibility, with three days per week in the office to support collaboration and connection.
Associate, Strategic Planning Strategic Finance and FP&A London employer: Checkout Ltd
Checkout Ltd is an exceptional employer that fosters a dynamic and inclusive work culture, where collaboration and innovation thrive. With a strong focus on employee growth, the company offers ample opportunities for professional development while embracing a hybrid working model that promotes flexibility. Located in London, employees benefit from a vibrant city atmosphere, making it an ideal place for those seeking meaningful and rewarding careers in the legal field.
