Company Overview

team.blue is an ecosystem of successful brands working together across regions to provide customers with everything they need to succeed online. 60+ successful brands make up the group; with a team of 2.700 experts serving its 3.3 million customers across Europe and beyond.

team.blue's brands are a mix of traditional hosting businesses, offering services from domain names, email, shared hosting, e-commerce and server hosting solutions and specialist SaaS providers offering adjacent products such as compliance, marketing tools and team collaboration products. This broad product offering makes it a one-stop partner for online businesses and entrepreneurs across Europe.

Position Overview

The Senior FP&A Manager will join the existing Group FP&A team to drive forward planning processes across the group as well as providing additional support in analysing the financials both on a monthly basis and ad hoc analysis as required.

The Group FP&A team are responsible for managing both short and long term planning processes across the organization and reviewing/challenging inputs from regional finance teams in order to produce a set of consolidated financial statements. The team take a leading role in producing Board narrative for the financial plans and support with the long-term strategy of the organization, ensuring the financial plan mirrors the strategic direction.

The Group FP&A team review in detail the monthy results, owning the flash reporting and board packs to highlight the key story and producing analysis to provide a greater understanding of the numbers and early visibility of implications on future months.

Group FP&A are also supporting with the finance transformation including implementation of a new ERP, increasing the level of and quality of financial data available in order to ensure greater insight and drive decision making.

The right profile has an analytical mindset and is used to working under pressure to meet deadlines and has proven over time that he/she is able to keep a lot of different topics running at the same time. The candidate has a good business understanding from prior jobs and understands operational processes and the link they have to the financials. Most importantly, the candidate needs to have a constant improvement mindset, and the expertise to implement processes to streamline both reporting and planning as the business continues to grow.

Key Responsibilities:

• Run the planning processes across the group including setting timetables, reviewing/challenging submissions and presenting consolidated plans to senior leadership
• Work on both short term and longer term planning including in-year reforecasts, annual Budget and bi-annual 5 year plan
• Scenario planning and sensitivity analysis
• Build planning tools to streamline and ensure consistency of processes across the group
• Improve accuracy of financial planning
• Review of month end results, challenging anything which doesn’t make sense and advising on potential adjustments to the numbers if required
• Producing slides and narrative appropriate for senior leadership and the Board of Directors
• Support any shareholder transaction processes as required.

Skills:

• Qualified accountant
• At least 7 years of experience
• An analytical thinker who can interpret complex financial data and develop financial models
• Self-driven and ambitious
• Highly skilled within Excel modelling; experience using with BI tools is a must
• Also beneficial to have experience of planning tools (e.g. Anaplan, xxx)
• Good communication skills, able to communicate at all levels of the organization
• Ability to work well under pressure in a demanding environment
• Strong attention to detail
• An open-minded spirit able to maintain good relationships in an international environment
• The ideal candidate has knowledge of subscription base economics and has some affinity with Information Technology, analysis of operational cost base and cross charging

ESG

At team.blue, our commitment to caring for the environment and each other is at the heart of everything we do. Our latest impact report showcases our ongoing ESG efforts and ambitious sustainability goals. Interested in learning more about our dedication to making a positive impact? Check it out here.

"Come as you are"

Everyone is welcome here. Diversity & Inclusion are at our core. Far above any technical competence, we value respect, openness, and trusted collaboration. We do not tolerate intolerance.