Finance Senior Analyst - Hospitality London, England
Job description
About Us
The payments market is the most exciting technology market in the world today for good reason. McKinsey values it globally at over $2 trillion and it’s growing between 13-15% year-on-year. Some of the largest most dynamic brands are investing in this sector; Apple has ApplePay, Google has GooglePay, Amazon has AmazonPay, and it’s not just the Silicon Valley brands. Tencent owns WeChatPay, Alibaba owns Alipay and digital disruptors like Square, Stripe and Adyen all invest millions to grow the payments market.
Planet are a technology company that’s transforming payments by putting the customer experience first. We help our customers deliver a better experience for guests, shoppers, and consumers everywhere. We operate in a market that continues to evolve and expand, partnering with the world’s most prestigious brands across Retail and Hospitality, and with a network of Financial Services partners worldwide.
To meet consumer demands, payments must be simple, safe, and invisible. The only way to do this is to fully embed payments in the software and networks that runs business. By combining networks, software and payment technology, Planet’s creating a world of connected commerce, that makes payments feel good.
We’re growing organically, and with strong Private Equity investors, Advent International and Eurazeo, we’ve the financial capital and expertise to grow our capabilities and reach through acquisition.
Finance overview:
The finance function within Planet has a mission to support and help drive the commercial growth of the business through business partnering and insightful management data. We are looking for talented team members who are:
Analytical, data driven and curious about business performance drivers
Focused on driving efficient and effective processes
Comfortable in challenging and supporting business partners in achieving accelerated growth
Role Overview:
The Finance Analyst will report to the Hospitality CFO. The role will both provide quality business performance analytics, standardised reporting and opportunity assessment to support all regions within the retail vertical. The role will also support the budgeting and forecasting cycle with tracking of trends, risk, opportunities and insight to support decision making across Hospitality Europe.
The successful applicant will be comfortable in analysing a large amount of transactional data to identify the most critical insights, which will help to drive continued growth in our European Hospitality business.
The role will include a requirement to build strong relationships at senior levels within the sales and commercial organisations, while developing a solid understanding of the business dynamics across different product offerings.
What you will do
Business performance and analytics – Tracking in-month performance across all products including key performance indicators, analysing trends and highlighting risks to financial performance. Able to provide crisp, actionable insight via standardised weekly dashboard reporting, monthly analysis and insights of geographical and Hospitality product performance across all European markets.
Governance – supporting the information requirements of the Hospitality Commercial Finance team and aiding decision making by improving and optimising the use of data systems, helping to identify business reporting needs and driving the standardisation of reporting, reviewing and maintaining key standing data and reporting metrics. Supporting the monitoring and tracking of key profit initiatives across the European Hospitality business.
Budgeting and Forecasting – support the budgeting process for the Hospitality Commercial Finance Team. We typically run our budget process once per year, updating the forecast every month, the role will take the lead in managing the process for all product lines in Europe.
Opportunity Assessment – assisting with reviewing and providing recommendations for commercial opportunities, which includes new business wins, key account renewals, new product or market opportunities.
Who you are
Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) and a strong academic record
Detail oriented with experience of analysing country / division / product performance and identifying trends, risks and opportunities
Able to propose and implement where best practices can be shared
Never afraid to ask the right questions, commercially minded, with a strong focus on KPIs and performances analysis and delivery
Must be logical, self-motivated, proactive, with strong analytical skills and a high level of intellectual curiosity
Excellent excel and modelling skills
Experience of managing stakeholders at all levels
Experience in a payments or software business is beneficial
Why Planet
Planet is an equal opportunity employer where diversity is valued, and all employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.
Come and grow your career in the most exciting, fast paced technology market, with a business that delivers feel-good connected commerce. We would love to hear from you
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