Head of FP&A

Wayflyer • Full-time • Dublin, IE • 2w ago

About Wayflyer

Our mission is to give the world access to the best products by empowering great brands to reach their growth potential.

Today's consumer brands need a capital provider that keeps pace with their growth ambitions. Traditional financing options are slow, cumbersome and often out of reach. That's why we built Wayflyer.

Our unique technology allows us to assess businesses in minutes, generate financing offers that reflect their growth potential and send funds in as little as 24 hours.

Since launching in April 2020, we've deployed over $4.5bn to thousands of brands worldwide, backed by Tier 1 banks like J.P. Morgan. We've become a trusted financing partner for some amazing brands, like True Classic, Little Words Project and Kekoa Foods.

We're a fast-growing, venture-backed startup with big ambitions. We announced our Series B in February 2022, raising $150mn in funding at a $1.6bn valuation; backed by world-leading VCs including QED and DST Global.

Teams at Wayflyer are truly cross-functional. You'll be collaborating with ambitious colleagues from around the world - all striving to deliver on a huge opportunity. Check out this video to hear directly from them.

What you’ll do:

Reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer, we are looking to make a key hire to our finance leadership team. This will be a varied finance role collaborating with all departments across Wayflyer and will include the following:

Responsibility for the annual financial planning process - this includes working with Business Unit heads to build their annual budgets, collaboration with the Revenue department on their forecasts and working with the senior leadership team on materials to be presented to the board.
Analysing financial and operational results to better understand company performance and compare relative to budget. This includes analysing a monthly set of KPIs and developing these further as the business evolves providing insight into company performance and how to improve.
Responsibility for the overall corporate financial model - this includes scenario analysis including (1) changes in volume of deployments (2) forecasting company liquidity requirements (3) changes in unit economics.
Running a quarterly financial latest estimate process to provide management with the latest view of expected performance each quarter end for the current financial year.
Work with budget owners on requests for additional spend throughout the year. This includes ROI analysis on new projects and presenting recommendations to the CFO.
Working with the data team on any potential improvements to reporting and to identify opportunities for potential automation.
Work with the capital markets team on modelling out the terms of new debt facilities and assistance with diligence requests as required.
Work with the portfolio / credit team on changes to our pricing to analyse how it impacts our forecasts and unit economics.
Preparing business cases to support new investment, strategic and other business decisions. This includes working closely with the leadership team to formulate the business's medium to a long-term financial and strategic plan.

Knowledge, skills and experience:

Professional accountancy qualification (ACA/CIMA/ACCA) with 7+years PQE and previous experience in an FP&A or similar commercial role.
Experience with delivering analysis to and collaborating with senior stakeholders.
High proficiency in financial modelling is very important.
Systems experience such as SQL is an advantage but not essential.
Innate curiosity and willingness to learn about the financial and operational characteristics of Wayflyer and e-commerce businesses (our customers!)
You have to be able to thrive in a collaborative, fast-moving organisation using lightweight processes, creative ideas, and quick iteration to make a significant impact
Excellent financial acumen and ability to understand and breakdown complex data and processes.
You are proactive, flexible and keen to make a difference and help Wayflyer grow.

What is important to point out is that you can do most or all of the above mentioned and can point to your real experience doing it. You’ve probably done it at companies of different shapes, sizes and industries, and we are keen to learn where you made a difference. Given what we do, experience in financial services, fintech and business-to-business organisations is particularly interesting to us.

On top of that, you’re amazing at prioritisation. You make sure you’re not spread too thin while also giving teams the support they need. You spend your time on the things that make a positive difference. People get why you’ve chosen to say ‘yes’, ‘no’, or ‘not yet’, and are ok with it.

What you’re like as a person and how you treat people is a big deal for us. People love working with you. You’re helpful and generous with your time and knowledge. People love helping you back. People know where they stand with you.

You’re always looking to learn and grow, on a personal and professional level. And you’re always looking to help others learn and grow by sharing your own knowledge and experience.

You know why diversity, equality, inclusion and belonging matters, and speak up when we can do better.

What Happens Next

We’ll review every application we receive. If we’re interested in taking your application further, we will be in touch to find out more about you and what you’re looking for.

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