Director of FP&A - United Kingdom

Get to know us

At eyeo, we transform the internet into a trusted, sustainable and accessible place where users regain control over their experience, content creators and publishers are rewarded for their content, and advertisers and consumers can connect on mutually agreed terms.

eyeo’s market-leading ad-filtering technology powers products like Adblock Plus and AdBlock as well as technical integrations for popular browsers. Our solutions empower users to control their online experience and privacy while providing monetization for content creators, publishers and advertisers.

Combining our partnerships and our subsidiary products, our technology reaches 350 million monthly active users worldwide.

eyeo is a global employer of over 300 people working remotely in more than 30 countries (predominantly North America and Europe) with our HQ in Berlin and small offices in Cologne, Toronto and NYC (planned soon).

How we work

eyeo has colleagues based all over the world. We love our diversity and take great pride in our company culture. We practice an independent, remote workstyle with work distributed in cross-functional matrix teams that span predominantly EST and CET time zones. If working remotely isn’t for you, we also have a large office in Berlin and soon in NYC that you can choose to work from. We meet twice a year as a team and host an annual-company retreat, our Summer Week. By enabling remote work and in-person sessions, we have built a culture that provides a unique dynamic of flexibility and belonging.

What you'll do

At eyeo, you will have the opportunity to lead our corporate FP&A team. FP&A collaborates with all business functions by providing relevant reporting, meaningful analysis and raising thoughtful questions while problem solving together with business partners. This role is responsible for mapping eyeo’s annual financial plan, monitoring performance, partnering with the business to achieve and exceed plans and collaborating with Strategic Finance and Corporate Controllership in Board and investor deck preparation. The Director of FP&A reports directly to the CFO.

This is an opportunity to join eyeo at a critical stage of growth and scalability. You will need the ability to communicate at all levels and have intellectual curiosity for building models and frameworks to help your executive business partners more effectively and efficiently manage operations and growth. You will partner with cross functional leaders in driving technology and process improvement initiatives.

This role is perfect for a roll-your-sleeves-up self-starter who is ready to gain experience in operating a high-growth startup. The ideal candidate will possess a strong work ethic, cultural sensitivity and be curious, consultative, articulate and excited to drive results.

Your day-to-day activities:

• Lead the company’s business planning, including annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting
• Build deep relationships with business partners and cross functional teams across the organization to promote return on investment and efficiency improvements
• Support in the monthly review of financial results to ensure accuracy and reliability
• Partner with Corporate Controller to prepare monthly and quarterly financial management reporting packages which includes actuals vs budget or forecast, revenue and OPEX analysis, and corporate metrics for internal and external stakeholders
• Identify key drivers of variances in performance, recommend actions and communicate key messages to senior management and business partners
• Prepare and provide presentations to support board and shareholder meetings, monthly/quarterly senior leadership meetings, and ad hoc strategic decision making
• Partner with the People department on financial and operational planning, short-term and long-term compensation design and implementation
• Participate or lead in strategic data analysis, research and modeling such as company benchmarking
• Implement and administer future financial planning tools, and build sustainable, efficient and effective processes, including working capital management
• Partner with the Data and Analytics function to build scalable, consistent reporting across the organization
• Coach, mentor and develop a high-performing team that partners effectively with their stakeholders
• Handle special projects and assignments as required
• Support in IPO readiness preparation

What you bring to the table

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field
• Strategic, innovative leadership—able to leverage ideas from key stakeholders to create and implement winning solutions
• 10+ years of experience in FP&A or other financial and/or analytical roles
• 3+ years of consolidated corporate level FP&A leadership responsibilities and people management experience
• Familiarity with accounting principles and ability to translate that to financial statement modeling
• Fluency with SaaS metrics, business models and ability to explain to both senior and cross-functional audiences
• Strong analytical capabilities, with previous experience of data analysis

It's awesome if you have

• Master’s degree in business administration or finance (MBA)
• Knowledge and skill with corporate planning tools and financial systems (NetSuite)
• Knowledge of the AdTech or MarTech space
• Experience in public companies

What we offer

• Work remotely or from one of our offices —we trust you to find what works best for you
• Full package of benefits (health insurance, choice of hardware, paid vacation days, professional development and relocation budget, sabbatical leave, etc.)
• Offsite team days and the annual summer company retreat

** Some benefits vary subject to the hiring location*

Helpful links

• Monetization:https://eyeo.com/blog/acceptable-ads-evolution-feature-ecosystem
• eyeo in the news:https://eyeo.com/press/
• Blog updates:https://eyeo.com/blog/
• Life at eyeo:https://eyeo.com/careers/working-at-eyeo
• The team at eyeo:https://eyeo.com/team
• Open Source repository:https://github.com/adblockplus,https://gitlab.com/eyeo

Privacy Notice

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