Are you ready to unleash your full potential? We’re looking for people who are passionate about payments to chart Worldpay’s path to being the largest and most-loved payments company in the world!
The role
We are currently recruiting for a Finance Analyst to join the Enterprise Financial Planning and Analysis team at Worldpay. This position is based in London and aligned to the Worldpay University Program; a two-year program, suited to entry level joiners who aspire to develop a successful career with a leading payments company.
As a 2024 Worldpay University Program full-time employee, you will have the opportunity to participate in team projects, community service activities, professional development initiatives and work with a team that is invested in your growth, development, and success; including bi-annual performance connects with your manager.
This two-year full-time program starts in September and as a university program participant you can look forward to the following:
- Learn about the exciting world of Payments and the role Worldpay plays
- Hear from Worldpay leaders about their journey
- Have access to social/professional network opportunities and build a network across the organisation
- Bi-annual merit reviews
About the team
You will join as part of the Enterprise Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team at Worldpay. The team, of eight heads, is responsible for the overall forecasting and analysis of the Enterprise divisions $1.4BN P&L.
Forecast accuracy and driving value add analytics both within the finance organisation and outside of it are key focuses of the team. The team works closely with the Finance Partner team to steer the business towards achieving its financial targets.
What you will be doing
In this role you will support in the forecast and analysis process for the Merchant Enterprise line of business, working closely with the finance partners to deliver an accurate forecast and help to steer financial performance towards targets. Primary focus areas include:
- Produce monthly variance analysis to targets across both Revenue and Costs, feeding insights into reporting decks to steer business performance
- Support team with development of regional financial models, building improvements and efficiencies where applicable to improve level of forecasting/analysis of macroeconomic trends
- Significant input towards annual financial budget/planning process
- Contribute towards success of FP&A transformation project, helping to drive team from Forecasting function to true value-add FP&A, seeking out opportunities to stand up new reporting and analytics to help ‘tell the forecast story’
- Liaise with Accounting on month end queries/issues where necessary to resolve promptly and minimize impact to close period
What you bring
- A bachelor’s degree, ideally financial/Economics, or another numerate discipline but not essential
- Strong interpersonal skills – a confident communicator
- Proactive, enthusiastic with a strong ability to work well independently and within a team
- Highly organised, with good time management skills and an ability to multi-task
- Ability to build a network and comfortable interacting with a diverse group of stakeholders
- MS Office experience, specifically Excel and PowerPoint
- You have a keen interest in the payments and technology industry
- You have ambitions to study towards a professional accountancy qualification e.g. CIMA
What we offer you
- Competitive salary and excellent benefits
- Working in an experienced and respected FP&A team with an opportunity to gain a good degree of responsibility relatively quickly
- Study support towards professional qualifications that relate to your role
- Bi-annual merit reviews during your first two years in the program
- Orientation upon joining with networking opportunities
- Varied and challenging work to help you develop your functional and technical skillset
- Time to support charities and give back to your community
- A work environment built on collaboration, flexibility, and respect
- A fun, inclusive culture – we love having fun together as a team and do lots of things both virtually as well as in person!
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