Senior Commercial Analyst (Finance)

About Fresha
Fresha is the leading marketplace platform for beauty & wellness trusted by millions of consumers and businesses worldwide.
Fresha is used by 110,000+ businesses and 450,000+ stylists and professionals worldwide, processing over 1 billion appointments to date. 
The company is headquartered in London, United Kingdom, with 12 global offices located across North America, EMEA and APAC.
Fresha allows consumers to discover, book and pay for beauty and wellness appointments with local businesses via its marketplace, while beauty and wellness businesses and professionals use an all-in-one platform to manage their entire operations with an intuitive subscription-free business software and financial technology solutions.
Fresha’s ecosystem gives merchants everything they need to run their business seamlessly by facilitating appointment bookings, point-of-sale, customer records management, marketing automation, loyalty, beauty products inventory and team management.
The consumer marketplace unlocks revenue potential for partner businesses by leveraging the power of online bookings and automated marketing through mobile apps and advanced integrations with major tech brands including Instagram, Facebook and Google.
Role overview
Given our exciting growth plans, we are looking for an exceptional Senior Finance Analyst to partner with our finance teams, especially our VPs of Accounting and Finance Strategy, to drive our financial strategy, scenario modelling, audit and accounting processes using our data platform.
Your expertise will guide us in growing our revenue, making us more profitable, keeping us compliant, raising capital and identifying commercial opportunities across the business, and doing so with the efficiency and automation of modern data tools.
Reporting into our Lead Commercial Analyst, this role is perfect for someone who wants to make an impact, working on different projects and learning in a fast-paced environment.

Accountabilities:

• Forecasting: modelling different scenarios for budgeting, target setting, long range planning, pricing and proposition changes and other changes to our business model will be key for this role. We’re open to a range of tools - not just spreadsheets - such as notebooks, python libraries, ML models, so long as you can accurately predict the impact of different courses of action
• Accounting: successful candidates don’t have be to qualified accountants, but since you’ll be working closely with finance professionals a high level of fluency in accounting principles, P&Ls, balance sheets, cash flow, revenue recognition etc, and being able to translate this into data models and queries,  is essential
• Collaboration: partnering with finance, marketing, engineering and commercial teams is key to having impact. In this role you’ll be expected to engage with a range of stakeholders, embed your analysis in their day to day decision making, and influence their thinking by empathising with their different objectives and perspectives
• Automation and modelling: you’ll need to have experience automating reports and metrics so that people have access to the data they need when they need it without your intervention, and powering regular processes such as month end and audits with data workflows
• Tooling and config: we need people who can dive into different tools and set things up for themselves to get the insights we need. In this role you’ll need access to different accounting tools and payment platforms, along with internal ledgers 
• Flexibility: by being plugged into finance teams, you’ll make sure our data model and logic stays in sync with our accounts, working with the rest of the team to respond to changes. You’ll be expected to work on a range of different initiatives and projects and respond to the needs of the team
• Learning: we encourage and expect team members to constantly develop their data practice and learn new skills, approaching their work with a growth mindset, knowing that it’s impossible to know everything but always having curiosity

This list is not exhaustive and there may be other activities you are required to deliver.

Experience & qualifications required:

• Extensive experience in financial modelling and scenario planning
• A high level of fluency in accounting principles and start up funding cycles
• Advanced data analysis skills using SQL is a must, along with programming language(s) for forecasting (python, R, excel)
• Experience with visualisation packages such as ploty to create high quality charts for publication
• Proven ability to work with a variety of data sources and wrangle them into useful assets for finance and growth teams
• Use of BI / visualisation tools to create data assets
• Knowledge of data modelling practices and pipeline development
• Experience condensing complex analysis into simple and persuasive presentations and ability to influence decision making at different levels

Bonus points:

• Has worked in finance or qualified as an accountant 
• Experience using Snowflake, dbt, periscope and notebooks
• Experience working in fast-paced scale ups

Inclusive workforce
At Fresha, we are creating a culture where individuals of all backgrounds feel comfortable.
We want all Fresha people to feel included and truly empowered to contribute fully to our vision and goals. Everyone who applies will receive fair consideration for employment.
We do not discriminate based on race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.
If you have any accessibility requirements that would make you more comfortable during the interview process and/or once you join, please let us know so that we can support you.