THE ROLE📝
As the main point of contact for the Finance team within the R&D (Engineering & Product) organisation, you’ll be providing financial inputs into business cases, along with ongoing project management and cost controls.
- Stakeholder management with senior management on a regular basis
- Partner across the business, working with all different departments of the business to assist in budget creation, forecast processes and share best practices
- Challenge assumptions and influence stakeholders to improve business performance while considering financial implications
- Analyse complex financial information and reports to provide accurate and timely financial recommendations to management for decision making purposes and highlight any issues
- Assess business performance and strive for a deeper understanding of business levers, costs and underlying drivers
- Develop financial models to support strategic initiatives
- Analyse trends in key performance indicators highlighting commercial opportunities and risks
- Translate and disseminate complex financial information to other areas of the business, across exec and senior management
- Support the Tax team by collating resource and project data as part of the annual R&D tax claim
- Responsible for producing the R&D reporting, including monthly forecasting, budgeting and variance analysis
WE’RE LOOKING FOR 🔍
The successful candidate will have:
- 5+ years' experience working in a Business Partnering role
- Extensive experience working with both large and highly complex Engineering and Product teams
- Reporting and presenting to senior stakeholders (CTO, CPO level) and comfortable presenting at board level
- ACA / ACCA / CIMA qualifications
- Experience in cost management and variance analysis
- Experience in data aggregation and visualisation (preferred but not required)
- Strong Microsoft excel skills and experience in financial modelling
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships
THE TEAM 👥
Our Finance Team consists of experienced professionals, who are responsible for the smooth running of the Finance function at Form3. A close-knit team with great experiences, connections, and big ambitions! As a member of Form3’s wider Finance team you will aim high, embrace challenge, and always do what is right; acting with integrity and building trust as you contribute to the company’s technical direction and long-term goals.
INTERVIEW PROCESS ✍️
Stage 1: Screening Call with Talent Team
Stage 2: Interview with FC
Stage 3: Presentation to CPO & Senior Finance Business Partner (Commercial)
Stage 4: Final interview with CFO
We always aim to stick to the above process, however there may be occasions when an additional interview stage is needed for us to be sure we find the best fit for the role!
HIRING LOCATIONS 📍
Whilst this role is mainly remote, there will be times when travel into Form3's London office is required. We are able to accept applications from the following countries; UK
ABOUT FORM3 💭
Revolutionising the world of payments with our cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions. For more information about life at Form3 check out the following pages:
What we do | Life at Form3 | Benefits | Flexa-verified employer | Podcasts
OUR DEI&B COMMITMENT
We hire talented people from a variety of backgrounds and experiences and are committed to a work environment based on diversity, open-mindedness and curiosity. We’re united by our company values (we even created them together!) and we celebrate our unique differences.
Our employee lifecycle processes are designed to embrace equal opportunity and prevent discrimination against our people regardless of personal characteristics. It is our strong belief that the more inclusive and belonging we are as a business, the better our work will be.
As an inclusive employer, we guarantee to interview all neurodiverse and physically disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for this role. We also encourage candidates to notify us of any reasonable adjustments that may be required during the recruitment process. This includes providing job adverts in alternative, accessible formats or adjustments required at interview stage.
If you consider yourself to be neurodiverse or physically disabled under the UN definition of disability and would like to be considered under this scheme and/or require any reasonable adjustments please let us know by sending an email to [email protected] clearly stating your consent for us to process this data.
For more information please refer to our Recruitment Data Policy.
What We Do
Form3 develop payment technology. We offer a fully managed, payment technology platform for Financial Institutions as-a-Service.Our vision is to be the worlds most trusted provider of payment technology.We design, build and run the technology that powers the future of payments.Historically, banking leaders believed that infrastructure technologies were an asset for their financial institution because they were managed locally and could be customised. Form3 is changing this model and offering payments infrastructure as a service. A fully cloud native platform that is fully managed to lower costs across operations, infrastructure, security, upgrades, and change management.Form3 has proven that there is a cheaper, simpler, and more efficient way for FI's to handle large payment volumes and scale dynamically without a heavy infrastructure burden. We enable FI’s to benefit from the flexibility, business agility and speed to market that an API-first platform brings along with embedded services that ensure they are always future-ready.Form3 work with regulated financial institutions including large Enterprise banks and digital challenger banks including Mastercard, Lloyds Banking Group, Ebury, LHV, PPS, N26, Square, Aion Bank and others.
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