FP&A Analyst - CIMA/ACCA in London

LondonFP&A – FP&A /Employee - Permanent /HybridOur StoryHello there. We started our journey back in 2005, building the first ever peer-to-peer lending company. Fast forward to 2020 and we launched Zopa Bank. A bank that listens to what our customers don't like about finance and does the opposite. We're redefining what it feels like to work in finance. Our vision for a new era of banking puts people front and centre — we've built a business that empowers everyone to aim high, every day, to move finance forward. Follow us on Instagram @zopalifeWe're looking for a Senior FP&A Analyst with strong commercial understanding and a forward-looking analytical mindset to support Zopa's planning, forecasting and scenario modelling capabilities. This role is focused on producing high-quality analysis, maintaining robust planning outputs and creating decision-ready insight to support long-term planning, and strategic decision-making. The successful candidate will work closely with teams across Finance, Risk and Product to understand business drivers, challenge assumptions and explain financial impacts clearly. The role offers broad exposure to how a growing bank plans and manages performance, including areas such as credit strategy, impairments, capital and funding. Play a key role in Zopa's forward-looking planning activities, helping turn commercial, economic and operational drivers into robust forecasts that shape business decisions. Deliver budgets, long-term plans and scenario analysis, supporting ICAAP and other capital, strategic and business decision-making activities as they arise. Analyse risks, opportunities and implications within forecasts and plans, drawing out key insights, sensitivities and potential management actions for decision-makers. Partner with FP&A, Product, Treasury, Credit Strategy, Valuations, Impairments and teams across the business to monitor actual performance, challenge assumptions and ensure key forecast outputs are well understood. Help improve how FP&A works by simplifying processes, strengthening forecasting models and Anaplan outputs, and embracing tools such as AI to make planning and analysis more efficient. Strong financial analysis experience, ideally in retail banking or consumer finance, with a focus on forward-looking planning, forecasting and scenario analysis. Ability to translate commercial, economic and operational drivers into clear, credible financial forecasts and projections. Comfortable interpreting financial information across P&L, balance sheet, product performance, capital, liquidity and risk. Working knowledge of credit risk, impairment forecasting or IFRS 9, with the ability to understand how credit performance and impairment assumptions affect financial performance. Able to identify financial risks and opportunities, and explain the implications for business performance, planning and capital decisions. Clear communicator, able to turn complex financial information into concise insight for senior and cross-functional stakeholders. Strong stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to build trust, gather inputs and challenge assumptions constructively across Finance and the wider business. Comfortable working through structured, recurring planning processes while also responding flexibly to ad hoc analysis, projects and strategic initiatives. Bonus points for: Deeper experience in consumer finance, retail banking or lending products would be particularly relevant. Detailed understanding of banking products, balance-sheet dynamics, capital, liquidity, funding and credit risk. Knowledge of impairment forecasting, IFRS 9, ICAAP, ILAAP, recovery planning, stress testing or bank financial planning. Experience with Anaplan or comparable planning systems. Experience preparing high-quality Board and Executive Committee papers. A recognised finance or accounting qualification, or progress towards one, such as ACA, ACCA or CIMA.#LI-LK1At Zopa we value flexible ways of working. We value face-to-face collaboration and a good work-life balance. This hybrid role requires you to come to our London office 2-3 days a week. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds leads to better products for our customers and a unique company culture for our people. As a proud partner of Jobs 2030, we're committed to building AI fluency across our workforce, and we expect Zopians to use AI as part of how they do their jobs. Your Talent Partner will let you know what's expected at each stage.