FP&A Analyst in London

Foundry is a market-leading developer of visual effects software that is used globally by leading artists, designers and creative professionals. Our products are used to create breath-taking visual effects sequences on a wide range of media – including films, episodic, games and commercials. Our software has been used by every Oscar-winner for best VFX and every Emmy-winner for best drama in the past decade. High profile examples include Succession, Game of Thrones, The Crown, Avatar, Dune, Star Wars, Inception and Gravity, amongst many others.

Headquartered in London with operations worldwide, Foundry is owned by Roper Technologies, a leading US-listed diversified technology company with ~$60bn market cap, which manages a portfolio of 29 market-leading software companies operating in niche verticals. Under Roper’s ownership, there is an ambitious organic growth agenda that will take Foundry from ~$70m ARR to ~$100m ARR over the next few years, with potential for M&A to further accelerate growth.

This is an exciting opportunity for a bright, proactive and ambitious individual to contribute to Foundry's commercial finance function during a period of transformation and growth. Reporting to the Commercial Finance Manager, the FP&A Analyst will play a crucial role in maintaining financial models, supporting forecasting and reporting activities, and contributing to strategic projects. This role is ideal for someone looking to develop their commercial finance skills in a fast-paced and dynamic technology company.

Responsibilities

• Broad commercial finance role covering forecasting, reporting, commercial analytics, business partnering and strategic projects.
• Maintain and develop detailed three statement financial models, to support monthly re-forecasts, annual budget and strategic plans (3 Year and 5 Year financial models).
• Partner with budget owners and key stakeholders across the business, as well as the broader finance team, in order to provide key insights / analysis in relation to performance against budget, and support future investment decisions.
• Prepare monthly reports for Foundry’s Executive team and the Board of Roper.
• Develop and maintain key dashboards and analysis in PowerBI, implementing high-impact, scalable processes.
• Business partner with sales, product and operations to drive strategic insights and deliver operational improvements.

Requirements

• High intellectual capacity to quickly understand business dynamics and add value.
• Excellent attention to detail, combined with the ability to understand the broader context and present complex financial information clearly and concisely.
• Comfortable working with large datasets and leveraging business systems to prepare commercial analysis. Experience with systems such as Salesforce and PowerBI would be beneficial.
• Strong communication skills to build effective working relationships within finance and with other stakeholders across the business.
• Inquisitive and proactive, with the ability to anticipate risks/opportunities and contribute to strategic discussions.
• Genuine interest in Foundry’s business model and the industry which we serve.
• Open to new ideas and focused on delivering consistently high quality results that enrich our business.
• Ambition: Desire to develop exceptional modelling (Excel) and reporting (PowerPoint, PowerBI) capabilities, and the curiosity and drive to embrace emerging technologies such as AI to improve existing processes and add value across the business.
• Positive attitude, with good sense of humour. Hard-working but balances this successfully with interests outside of work.
• Committed to working in our London office more often than not (company policy is minimum 2 days per week, but finance leadership team are in 3 days per week).

Experience

• The successful candidate is likely to be a newly qualified accountant, having trained with one of the Big 4 firms.
• Strong academic credentials and a clear track record of progression are essential.
• Experience and/or interest in software, tech and recurring revenue business models would be beneficial.

25 days holiday +