Corporate Finance Manager

Description: 

We are looking for a Corporate Finance Manager to join our Corporate Finance team. The Corporate Finance team is responsible for establishing financial principles to set targets required to deliver our financial ambition. This includes revenue realisation, gross margin expectations as we scale, cost and cash management, and commercial GTM analysis. 

The team sits with Corporate Strategy as part of a wider Strategic Finance function The functions work together to translate longer term vision into a consumable financial framework that influences our operational priorities and decision making. We regularly work  across the business to programmatically assess performance monthly and quarterly against annual OKRs. 

What we expect from you as a Corporate Finance Manager: 

• Dive into the financial detail of the business: supporting near and long-term forecasting, maintaining regular internal and external reporting, and evaluating deal attractiveness alongside our commercial team
• Define, measure and track progress against identified KPIs and targets for the company 
• Have an understanding of revenue and revenue acquisition, through cost of sales, gross margin, and ultimately ebitda and cash
• Partner across the company, building relationships with key stakeholders to influence strategic decisions
• Work collaboratively with the Strategy team to support in quantifying our longer term equity story
• Support special projects - may include new product or pricing launches, new market expansion, and areas of inorganic growth (e.g. M&A, fundraising, JVs, investments)
• Support on creating Board materials for monthly and quarterly reporting

This is an ideal role for someone who likes to understand a business and industry through a numerical lens; who exudes ownership, is obsessed with detail, and enjoys accelerated learning in a fast paced environment. 

About you: 

• At least 2-4 years of experience in investment banking, PE / VC or management consulting, or in inhouse Corporate Finance;
• Strong desire to take on challenges; working in an innovative tech environment;
• Understanding of financial modelling, valuation methods;
• Highly numerate, with immaculate attention to detail;
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; you have the ability to summarise complex financial ideas to both financial and non-financial audiences;
• You are very data-driven, and can back up your work with data;
• You enjoy rolling your sleeves up and owning the delivery of work. 

We would be particularly excited if you have:

• You have a strong interest in / experience with Open Banking, PSD2, payments and data
• Knowledge of key metrics used in evaluating SaaS/FinTech and ideally payments businesses

Don’t meet all the requirements?

Multiple studies have shown that women and people of underrepresented groups are sometimes less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single requirement.  At Truelayer, we are committed to building a diverse workforce, so if you are excited about this role and have the essential skills, but not the entire checklist - we’d still love to hear from you!

Benefits

What you can expect from us 

• Meaningful equity in the company 💰
• Flexible hours and hybrid working — work from home 🏡and our incredible offices in London 🇬🇧Milan 🇮🇹  and Dublin 🇮🇪
• Need to collect the kids from childcare? Love a workout in the gym first thing?  No worries, we trust you to do your best work within our hybrid framework 🧘
• A one-off remote-working budget to help you set up your home office 💺
• 24 days holiday as standard  ✈️ with flexible bank holidays, so you can take those days whenever you like 🌍
• 12 fully-paid wellbeing days a year and your birthday off (on top of the holiday allowance) 🕊️
• 2 volunteering days to support causes important to you
• 90 day ‘work from abroad’ policy 👩‍💻☀️
• Generous parental leave, above and beyond statutory requirements and with no minimum tenure 👪
• Competitive pension contribution at 4% & 4% 🧓
• Private health insurance from the day you start 🧑‍⚕️
• Membership of mental wellbeing platform Spill and premium Calm subscription
• A budget to spend on learning & development each year 📚

Last updated on Aug 23, 2024