Senior Finance Analyst

Job description

🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone. We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking. After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as  personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts , accounts for 16-17 year olds , a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save , invest and  combine their pensions with us. With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers! We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️ 📍London/UK Remote | £56,100 - £70,000 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance +  Benefits ⭐️ Our Costs Team We're looking for a Senior Finance Analyst to take a leading role in managing operating expenses across Monzo's Collectives and Disciplines, helping business leaders understand financial performance, anticipate emerging risks and make better-informed spending decisions. This role takes independent ownership of an allocated cost portfolio, combining financial planning, forecasting, performance management and commercial analysis. You'll go beyond maintaining accurate financial models and reporting to challenge assumptions, investigate complex cost drivers and recommend actions that improve financial performance. You'll work directly with senior business stakeholders, Finance Business Partners, Procurement and the wider Cost Efficiency team. You'll also help raise the standard of financial analysis across the team, supporting less experienced analysts and improving how we forecast, report and manage costs. 🔑 You’ll play a key role by… • Independently owning operating expense planning and forecasting for your allocated Collectives and Disciplines, building and maintaining robust financial models, challenging business assumptions and explaining material movements in the expected full-year position. • Leading financial performance analysis for your portfolio, investigating complex variances across cost lines, suppliers and business activities, identifying underlying drivers and translating findings into quantified risks, opportunities and management recommendations. • Driving monthly business performance discussions, producing and presenting decision-ready financial insight to senior stakeholders, confidently challenging expenditure, explaining forecast implications and securing agreement on actions. • Providing financial analysis for material business decisions, evaluating new investments, supplier commitments, organisational changes and cost initiatives, including their affordability, in-year impact, annualised run-rate and expected financial benefits. • Proactively identifying and delivering cost efficiency opportunities, partnering with Procurement and business owners to challenge existing expenditure, quantify achievable savings and track delivery against agreed financial baselines. • Maintaining strong financial control and forecasting discipline, overseeing the quality of month-end actuals, accruals, forecast assumptions and financial commentary within your portfolio, resolving complex issues and escalating material risks early. • Raising the capability of the wider analyst team, providing technical guidance, reviewing complex analysis, sharing financial modelling and reporting best practices, and helping less experienced colleagues develop their financial judgement. • Leading targeted im