Senior FP&A Analyst (Modelling)

Our Story

Hello there. We’re Zopa.

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. Find out more about our fantastic offerings at Zopa.com!

We’re incredibly proud of our achievements and none of it would be possible without the amazing team here. It’s not just industry awards we’re winning, we’ve also been named in the top three UK’s Most Loved Workplaces.

If you embrace unconventional challenges, are unafraid to think differently and are driven to make an outsized impact, you’ll thrive here at Zopa, so join us, and make it count. Want to see us in action? Follow us on Instagram @zopalife

A day in the life

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Build and improve core financial models and outputs across P&L, balance sheet, regulatory capital, product forecasts, stress testing and scenario analysis, helping to create decision-ready insight for senior stakeholders.

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Proactively identify data, systems or process issues; communicate implications clearly; and drive practical, sustainable improvements to modelling, reporting and planning processes.

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Build a strong understanding of Zopa’s products, financial drivers and business model to support effective planning, forecasting and scenario analysis.

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Design, build, enhance and maintain Anaplan models, modules, lists, actions, UX pages and related planning processes, ensuring they are robust, scalable, well-controlled and easy for stakeholders to use.

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Own or support data flows into and out of Anaplan, including imports, exports, reconciliations, source-data understanding and opportunities for automation, integration and process simplification.

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Partner with Product, Risk, Treasury, Finance and Data / Technology teams to improve planning processes and enable more insightful, intuitive reporting and decision support.

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Improve model governance and documentation, reducing technical debt, strengthening controls and making key assumptions, definitions, logic and dependencies transparent.

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Support core FP&A activities, including budgeting, long-term planning and running scenarios, while helping to automate, simplify and scale core planning processes over time.

About you

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You are comfortable working with data and planning systems such as Anaplan, with an understanding of data quality, reconciliations, system dependencies, integration points and opportunities for automation. Experience with AI tools, Python, ETL / data pipelines, BI tools, APIs would be advantageous.

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You have strong financial modelling and analytical skills, with a structured approach to model design, documentation, testing, controls and governance.

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You bring strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail and curiosity, with the ability to investigate issues, challenging ways of working and explaining complex outputs clearly.

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You have a willingness to learn and take on new skills, being adaptable to new technologies alongside existing technical depth.

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You can manage multiple priorities, communicate dependencies and trade-offs clearly, and operate effectively where requirements are evolving or ambiguous.

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You work well across different organisational functions, including Finance, Risk, Product, Commercial and Technology teams, building strong stakeholder relationships and helping colleagues get the best from Anaplan and related models.

Bonus points for

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• Financial services or banking experience is preferred. Consumer finance, lending or retail banking experience would be particularly relevant.
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• Anaplan certification, experience with Anaplan Application Lifecycle Management, or experience improving planning-system governance would be advantageous.
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• Experience in FP&A, finance transformation, management consulting, banking, fintech, product analytics, data analytics or a similar analytical environment would be relevant.
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• Knowledge of regulatory capital, liquidity, scenario stress testing, IFRS 9, credit risk modelling or bank financial planning would be a bonus.