Senior FP&A Analyst, OpEx

About ROLLER

ROLLER is not your average software-as-a-service company. With a global presence in over 30 countries, we're here to bring some excitement to the leisure and attractions industry and make a difference! Our mission is to help businesses operate smoothly and create fun and memorable guest experiences by providing seamless ticketing, point-of-sale, self-serve kiosks, memberships and digital waiver processes.

But here's the best part: our team. We're a group of 190+ highly passionate, enthusiastic, and down-to-earth professionals located all around the world who are all working together to build something truly remarkable. We're aiming high and believe that the possibilities are endless. As we continue to grow globally, we're excited to write our success story and have fun along the way.

We genuinely love what we do, and we're looking for like-minded people to join us on this amazing journey. If you're ready to be part of a dynamic team and make a real impact, come aboard, and let's create some unforgettable experiences together at ROLLER!

About the Role

The Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team is integral to driving and delivering ROLLER’s growth strategy. The FP&A team is currently in a scale up phase, providing a unique opportunity to join the global software tech company as it goes through a hyper growth stage and ensure your efforts have an important impact to achieving the company strategic goals. We are on a mission to build a highly collaborative and skilled team with proven experience in high growth SaaS businesses where you can bring strategic thinking, reporting and planning expertise to help ROLLER achieve its growth goals and build a world-class, high performing FP&A team.

The Senior FP&A Business Partner – Opex role is a unique opportunity to get a broad bur deep understanding of the business and partner with leaders across operational and business support teams playing an important role in supporting the company’s growth strategy by leveraging strategic thinking, analytical skills and being a trusted business partner. The role will bolster the financial awareness across all teams across the business by owning the annual planning and management reporting processes, ensuring alignment with business initiatives and team structures.

What You'll Do

• Be a key contributor to the FP&A and wider Finance team.
• Help the Director - FP&A enhance and optimise the company’s reporting, analytical and annual planning processes through:

• Implementation of an FP&A reporting, automation and data consolidation tool, integrating into various companywide systems such as NetSuite, BigQuery and Hibob in addition to helping People and Culture implement a workforce planning tool.
• Create and manage a regular cadence of opex and workforce reporting for both internal stakeholders and the board, in addition to the enhancement of these processes to help drive efficiencies and stakeholder ownership.
• Building a rolling opex forecast model process identifying potential risks to opex budgets / forecast achievement early.

• Provide excellence in Business Partnering support across the business, bringing trust, support and financial awareness to across all teams.
• Support the annual planning process focussing on leading and owning the opex and workforce planning processes (forecasts, budgets and scenario and sensitivity analysis) across the business, ensuring accuracy through connection with the overarching business strategy and drivers.
• Develop and opex planning models and improve on existing models to adapt to commercial changes that affect opex drivers and challenge yourself to continuously improve the models and drivers to reach better outcomes and improve accuracy whilst maintaining efficiency.
• Partner with all teams across the business to gather relevant assumptions and insights for revenue planning models.
• Own and prepare detailed and accurate monthly opex and workforce performance reporting frameworks for all SLT and operational leaders, offering insights into trends, variances against plan and key metrics and recommendations to inform decision making.
• Improve and develop financial and workforce allocation performance reporting frameworks to increase efficiency and accuracy, leveraging automation where possible.

About You

• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to generate high engagement with non-finance stakeholders and adapt to the different needs of these stakeholders, constructively challenging management’s proposals and decisions in relation to the performance of their teams.
• A depth of experience across a range of FP&A roles such as partnering with departments and corporate FP&A roles where you were involved in annual planning and monthly management reporting processes as well as optimising and upskilling current processes within a fast-paced SaaS / technology business.
• A hunger for continuous learning, embracing new challenges and can be adaptable to these changes, at the same time understand where to focus your time to get maximum impact.
• A love of modelling in Excel in addition to understanding and analysing the drivers and insights of cost growth of a department.
• Love cross-functional collaboration, gathering insights to drive financial and operational budgets / forecasts.
• An understanding of how operating costs impacts cash.
• A strategic thinker with the ability to look beyond the numbers of a model and understand the impacts the model outputs have on the business.
• Curious mindset that challenges the status quo, with an eagerness to identify areas of improvement in building efficiencies in joining disparate data sources and existing whilst maintaining efficiency and accuracy.
• A solid working knowledge of basic accounting standards and principles around cost recognition and how to apply these when developing profit and loss and cash flow models and analytical result reviews.
• Thrive in highly collaborative environments and solving problems creatively.
• Exceptional communication skills that enable you to quickly build rapport with senior leaders.
• A strong ability to work in a fast-paced environment and adept quickly in understanding the business, whilst also being flexible and taking a proactive approach to achieving team and business goals.
• Have experience in first or second tier reporting and planning tools.

Perks!

• You get to work on a category-leading product that customers love in a fun, high-growth industry- check our Capterra and G2 reviews.
• 4 Weeks of Annual Leave and 4 ROLLER Recharge days per year (that is 4 additional days of leave that we all take off together as a team to rest and recuperate) 
• Engage in our ‘Vibe Tribe’ - led by our team members; you can contribute to company-wide initiatives directly. Regular events and social activities, fundraising & cause-related campaigns... you name it. We're willing to make it happen!
• Team member Assistance Program to proactively support our team's health and wellbeing - access to coaching, education modules, weekly webinars, and more.
• 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for primary carers and 4 weeks paid Parental Leave for secondary carers
• Highly flexible hybrid work environment
• Work with a driven, fun, and switched-on team that likes to raise the bar in all we do.
• Individual learning & development budget plus genuine career growth opportunities as we continue to expand!

What You Can Expect

Initial call with our Talent Acquisition Manager
You’ll have an initial call with our Talent Acquisition Manager to chat through some of your experience to date, salary expectations and you can check off any initial questions you might have.

Interview with the Hiring Manager
You will get to meet with our Director of Product to learn more about the role & ROLLER whilst also talking through your experience in more detail.

Loop Interviews
This is where you will get to meet our wider ROLLER team to do a ‘vibe check’ on us to make sure our culture & vibe meet what you are looking for!

Offer
If all lights are green and the fit feels right, we’ll conduct reference checks and you'll receive an offer to join!

Successful applicants will be required to complete a background check (including criminal history) prior to commencement of employment