FPA Analyst
MPB, United Kingdom
Job Description
We are MPB, the world’s largest online platform for used photography and videography equipment. Our platform transforms the way that people buy, sell and trade in photo and video kit. MPB is a destination for everyone, whether you’ve just discovered your passion for visual storytelling or you’re already a pro.
MPB has always been committed to making kit more accessible and affordable, and helping to visualise a more sustainable future. We recirculate more than 300,000 items of used kit every year, extending the life and creative potential of photo and video equipment for creators around the world.
Headquartered in the creative communities of Brighton, Brooklyn and Berlin, the MPB team includes trained camera experts and seasoned photographers and videographers who bring their passion to work every day to deliver outstanding service. Every piece of kit is inspected carefully by our product specialists and comes with a six-month warranty to give our customers peace of mind that buying used doesn’t mean sacrificing reliability.
MPB has raised multiple rounds of venture capital and private equity funding, most recently 50m Series D in April 2021, and is listed in The Sunday Times Tech Track 100.
We are excited to be expanding our Finance team in our Brighton HQ. We are seeking an experienced FPamp;A Analyst to contribute to our growth as a best-in-class organisation. If you’re an innovative thinker with a passion for supporting photography and videography, we would love to hear from you. You’ll be working in a highly collaborative, cross-functional environment that includes local and global teams.
We recognise the benefit of inclusive practices to better build a diverse community here at MPB. Our commitment to ensuring inclusion fuels and connects us as one with the diverse community of visual storytellers that we serve.
MPB customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of family makeup, race, sexuality, religion, gender identity, disability or age. At MPB, every employee has the opportunity to make an impact and grow.
About The Role
This is an amazing opportunity for a driven, qualified FPamp;A Analyst to join a fast growing scale-up company and play a key role within our Finance team. Supporting and working alongside the finance team you will be our first FPamp;A hire, owning the financial model, budgeting, and forecasting process across all our markets and legal entities alongside the Financial Controller amp; CFO. You will have excellent excel skills, be highly analytical, a fast learner, with a drive for accuracy and close attention to detail, you will have a crucial role to play in our IPO ready project. As the business continues to grow, we will see the FPamp;A function expand accordingly.
As part of the finance function at MPB reporting to the Financial Controller you will oversee the budgeting and forecasting process as well as support the preparation of the management accounts and MI reporting. You will support the Exec team to drive accountability across the group.
Core Responsibilities
- Build an efficient budgeting process and work collaboratively with the Financial Controller, CFO, and the Exec team to set the targets
- Measure progress against budget on a monthly and quarterly basis, ensuring accountability for the results
- Build efficient forecasting and rolling forecast process
- Own the financial model and longer-term cash flow forecasting
- Support the preparation of monthly and quarterly mgt accounts (including variance analysis and management discussion amp; analysis)
- Work closely with other functions within the Finance Team (esp. management accounts and cash management)
- Partnering with other teams across the group including Marketing and Operations
- Assist with fundraising (modeling and preparation of due diligence)
- Ad-hoc projects and analysis as required, e.g. FPamp;A systems implementation and improvements.
Requirements
Ideally, you’ll be a qualified accountant with at least 3 years post qualification FPamp;A experience and possess previous demonstrable exposure to a multi-company/multi-currency group. You will be a hands on team player and have the ability to see and translate the numbers to real commercial insight. Identifying opportunities and risks as the business grows at over 50% YoY.
Highly analytical with excellent attention to detail and very strong Excel skills
Able to deal confidently amp; effectively with all stakeholders including the Execs team
Comfortable having challenging conversations with people and holding them to account
Constantly trying to improve processes and make them more efficient
Happy dealing with large volumes of d