FP&A Team Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Turkey, +5 more countries.

📋 Description

• Oversee, prioritize, and manage the daily activities of FP&A Analysts, which includes reviewing their work and offering coaching and feedback.

• Take ownership of recurring models, forecasts, analyses, and reporting within the designated functional area.

• Assess financial models and analyses for accuracy, logical coherence, methodological soundness, transparency, and usability, while reconciling outputs with source data and financial statements.

• Examine financial and operational outcomes, pinpoint significant drivers, question assumptions, and formulate clear management explanations.

• Conduct scenario, sensitivity, and other decision-support analyses within the assigned domain.

• Collaborate with Accounting, Operations, and additional departments to gather necessary inputs, resolve discrepancies, and enhance reporting accuracy.

• Maintain clear assumptions, supporting schedules, version control, change logs, and process documentation for key models and reports.

• Enhance, standardize, and automate ongoing FP&A processes and reporting.

• Assist with broader FP&A, due diligence, and strategic initiatives as required.

• Corporate Planning & Performance responsibilities include annual budget and reforecasts; consolidated three-statement forecast; operating expense and headcount planning; variance analysis; and management reporting.

• Portfolio & Capital responsibilities encompass origination and portfolio forecasting; NPL, REO, and recovery forecasting; cash and liquidity management; facility and covenant forecasting; and capital scenario planning.

⛳️ Requirements

• A bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Mathematics, Business Administration, Data Analytics, or a related field.

• A minimum of five years of progressive experience in FP&A, financial modeling, or a closely related finance role.

• Previous experience leading, reviewing, mentoring, or coordinating the efforts of analysts or other finance professionals.

• Strong comprehension of the income statement, balance sheet, and cash-flow statement, including the capability to construct and interconnect a three-statement model from scratch in Excel.

• Advanced Excel and financial modeling competencies, including scenario analysis, model development, and reconciliation with source data.

• Strong analytical judgment with the ability to identify significant business drivers within large or incomplete datasets.

• Capability to effectively communicate financial results, assumptions, risks, and recommendations to both finance and non-finance stakeholders.

• Proven expertise in at least one functional area mentioned above; candidates are not expected to be experts in both.

• Ability to handle recurring deadlines and maintain regular communication in a remote working environment.

• Experience in commercial lending, mortgage lending, specialty finance, banking, or another financial services setting (preferred).

• Experience with consolidated planning and forecasting, lending or portfolio analysis, liquidity and capital planning, or related work aligned with the assigned area (preferred).

• Experience in enhancing or automating ongoing financial models and reporting processes (preferred).

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English are required.

• CV must be submitted in English.

🏝️ Benefits

• USD compensation

• Paid Time Off (PTO)

• Fully remote — work from wherever you do your best work!