FP&A Analyst - Operations

About carwow

We’re on a mission to change the way people buy, sell or use a car by creating the world’s best online car marketplace. Since starting our journey in 2011, we’ve grown to become one of the most trusted comparison sites with over 12 million active users and an ‘excellent’ Trustpilot rating of 4.7.

carwow is backed by some of Europe’s most respected technology, marketplace and automotive investors, with $55 million Series D funding secured in December 2021. Over 400 carwowers from 25 nationalities work with us in the UK, Germany, Spain and Portugal. One of our goals for 2023 is to become a Top 10 European Start-Up to work for.

About the role

This newly created role sits within the growing finance team based in Victoria, Central London and will report directly into the Head of FP&A. The successful candidate will be helping the Operations function for our rapidly growing Sell My Car proposition. As a critical link between Finance, Operations and Marketplace Analytics you will be responsible for providing visibility and understanding on performance, identifying efficiency improvement opportunities and supporting the workforce planning team with forecasting needs.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of the rolling Sell My Car business forecast model, providing visibility on future volumes and aiding strategic investment decisions
• Business partnering senior stakeholders to provide insights and recommendations
• Develop and own the Operations performance reporting processes
• Building/owning the Operations dashboard for analysing performance
• Presenting weekly Operations performance to Sell My Car leadership team
• Ad-hoc project analysis and modelling needs for the Sell My Car Commercial & Operations teams

Requirements

Requirements

• Newly qualified accountant, or part qualified looking to complete
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Comfortable with ambiguity and takes ownership to drive projects forward
• Great time management and ability to meet deadlines with changing priorities
• Advanced Excel and modelling skills, experience with Google’s products suite a bonus
• Strong analytical capabilities with a curious and problem-solving mindset

Benefits

️ Remote and hybrid working options: (2 days in the office)

Competitive salary

Equity in the company (share options)

Vitality Private Healthcare

️ 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and Christmas Eve or an alternative (religious) holiday of your choice

Tech: The latest core technology (Macbook or Surface)

Remote working: You'll receive a ‘home office allowance’ of up to £500/€550 to help get set up with everything you need to succeed at home

Remote working: New: ‘work from anywhere for a month each year' policy in place should you wish to use it

Inclusive parental, partner and shared parental leave, fertility treatment and pregnancy loss policies

Learning and development budget

Social: Company wide collaboration such as bi-weekly product demos, tech lunch’s, coffee with the exec sessions, book clubs, social events

‍‍ Refer a friend and get paid!

Lunch & learns with internal and external speakers

Diversity and inclusion is an integral part of our culture. We know that diverse teams are strong teams, so we welcome those with alternative identities, backgrounds, and experiences to apply for this position. We make recruiting decisions based on experience, skills and potential, so all our applicants are treated fairly and equally.

CSR

We are leading the change to Electric vehicles and are conscious of the impact our industry can have on the environment. We’ve already planted over 45,000 trees to date as a thank you to those who leave us a review and are extremely excited about our new partnership with ‘One Tree Planted’, which we hope will increase the number to around 60,000 trees a year.