FP&A Analyst
Feedzai
- Location
- Portugal
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Mid
- Posted
- 2h ago
Skills
About this role
At Feedzai, we're building a world of safer money. A world where financial institutions move faster than criminals. Where the payments that fund real lives through salaries, savings, and businesses are protected in real time. We use trusted AI to detect and prevent financial crime, fraud, and money laundering at scale: the world's top banks, payment networks, and acquirers trust our technology to safeguard more than one billion consumers and $9 trillion in payment volume every year.
Feedzai is a Series D company and has raised $282M to date. With a valuation of $2 billion, our technology protects 1 billion consumers and 90 billion transactions each year.
The Finance Team focuses on the long-term profitability and the growth of Feedzai. They are a high-performing team with a healthy work-life balance. Their four main objectives are to: Optimize our systems, close and report out timely and accurately, actively collaborate and partner with the business, prioritize, and invest in employees. In addition, the Finance Team ensures that Feedzai can lean in, try new things, and discover our potential by enabling development and product differentiation. Join Us!
You
Reporting to the FP&A Director, the Corporate FP&A Cost Analyst will be responsible for both quantitative and qualitative analysis of cost dynamics and drivers of the company. FP&A Cost Analyst consider economic and business trends, review past company performance, and attempt to anticipate obstacles and potential problems, all with an eye toward forecasting a company's future financial results. The FP&A Cost Analyst is responsible for financial, analytical and budget support, and for providing financial and operational thought leadership and accountability throughout the organization.
Your Day to Day
• Report and Analysis on Profitability by client / product line
• Working with individual departments to prepare budgets and consolidate them into one overall corporate budget, independently testing and challenging assumptions against contracts, headcount plans and operational drivers.
• Preparing internal reports for executive leadership and supporting their decision making
• Creating, updating, and maintaining financial models and detailed forecasts of the company’s future operations
• Comparing historical results against budgets and forecasts, and performing variance analysis that separates timing effects, one-offs and structural changes, identifies the underlying cost drivers and assesses their impact on the forward forecast.
• Generating short and long term financial forecasts, including mapping out growth plans, capital expenditures and investments.
• Partner with business leaders and key stakeholders across the different business teams on Company strategic projects
• Prepare and present to company leadership team and key stakeholders across the different business teams monthly Performance management metrics (Budget, Reporting, Analysis, Business Insights)
• Improve predictability and systematization of Feedzai’s forecasting models using Excel, Statistical/data methods, SQL, ERP, and other tools
• Drive Performance and Growth of Feedzai’s operations, key financial trends, business drivers, KPIs and factors influencing the business performance
• Proactively identify and drive new initiatives/projects to increase operational efficiencies and support rapid growth
• Maintenance and improvement of backend IT databases, data normalization and standardization, including business structure changes
• Collaborate with the Accounting, Payroll, Procurement and HR teams to ensure accurate and timely reporting, reconcile financial and operational data, and investigate and resolve unexplained