Senior Finance Business Partner, Multiverse
Strategic Finance
£80-96k
15% bonus and 1600 Equity Share Options
More information about location
1 day a week in office
Providing equitable access to economic opportunity for everyone.
Open for applications
Providing equitable access to economic opportunity for everyone.
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
£80-96k
15% bonus and 1600 Equity Share Options
More information about location
1 day a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Multiverse's goal is to break the expensive barrier between education and employment that is holding back companies and people.
Role
Who you are
- Background: Audit or Consulting plus 2-3 years of experience as a business partner or in FP&A, ideally in high-growth start-up/scale-up environments. A functional knowledge of accounting is also essential
- Data Analysis Skills: Exceptional at working with large data sets, drawing conclusions, and presenting ideas convincingly; with the ability to work at pace
- Strategic and Operational Analysis: Quick to identify improvement areas with strong communication skills to persuade stakeholders
- Operational Decision Making: Experience using analysis to drive measurable changes in financial or operational performance
- You have experience using analysis to inform operational decisions that have made measurable changes in the financial and/or operational performance of companies
- Stakeholder Management: Proven track record of gaining and maintaining trust from key stakeholders across functions
- Technical Proficiency: Comfortable with Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel; Python and SQL knowledge is a plus
- Team Player and Self-Starter: Thrives in high-growth, fast-paced environments, with minimal supervision, a strong work ethic, and ambition
What the job involves
- We're continuing a phase of rapid growth and innovation and are working to ensure that the Finance Department is ready to support Multiverse in this exciting stage of growth
- This includes enhancing our ability to support departments with financial management, analysis, and general partnership to ensure they scale efficiently
- Business partnering with key departments: driving analysis that supports key strategic and organisational decisions, bringing clarity to the financial impact of day-to-day decisions and activities, and helping optimise all aspects of financial management
- Strategic and Operational Analysis: Working across the organisation to gather data and produce and distribute regular analysis of KPIs, setting targets and identifying areas of potential improvement, while supporting business development with analysis
- Pricing, Profitability, and External Growth: Drive analysis and be the ultimate approver of pricing and structuring of new products, partnerships, and initiatives, ensuring growth with the right unit economics
- This is a high-visibility position reporting to the Senior Director of Commercial Strategic Finance
- You will interact regularly with senior leadership of other departments to provide a financial perspective on key decisions, agree on methods and types of data sharing, and agree on the types of financial as well as operational analysis you will be conducting with them
- One of your primary responsibilities will be to ensure the preparation and regular dissemination of analysis information that is crucial to the business’s ability to monitor its performance and make strategic and operational decisions
- You will also provide the analytical and planning to support Departments’ needs
- Create highly functional partnerships with key departments in order to facilitate data flow, analysis, and cross-departmental collaboration aimed at enhancing MVs ability to draw conclusions from and take actions on the basis of real-time data
- Become the effective CFO of your department to help them better understand everything from financial and strategic planning to regular monitoring of performance versus financial targets
- Leverage your position to acquire a deep understanding of business drivers to inform the setting of KPI targets, undertake further analysis, and make recommendations to help drive growth and profitability
- Work with the Senior Director of Strategic Finance to develop and produce regular reports to the C-Suite and other senior leaders on business performance, financial and operational health, and forecast updates
- Review proposals for new areas of expenditure, review the research underlying them, and conduct appropriate financial analysis for the purposes of providing the Finance Team’s recommendation on potential changes and whether the proposals should be approved
- Support other senior leaders in the development, structuring, and negotiation of large contracts and/or strategic partnerships
- Identify areas of improvement in financial reporting and record-keeping and ensure a consistent flow of accurate financial information and KPIs to the SLT and C-Suite
- Strong hustle - with no aversion to 'rolling up your sleeves and solving immediate business problems and projects
- Partner with the Accounting team to align reporting calendars in a way that permits a consistent flow of financial and KPI reporting to the business
Salary benchmarks
Our take
In today's tech-driven workplace, skills like digital marketing, software engineering, product design, and data analysis are pivotal. Traditional pathways to acquiring these skills are evolving, with coding schools like Makers Academy challenging the necessity of a formal Computer Science degree.
Recognizing the need for inclusive pathways, apprenticeships have gained prominence, spurred by government mandates like the 2016 levy. Multiverse (formerly WhiteHat) exemplifies this shift, offering opportunities for all to reskill and thrive in the tech industry.
Embracing a mission of accessibility and innovation, Multiverse's recent strategic moves, including acquiring Californian AI firm, Searchlight and attracting top-tier talent, underscores its commitment to excellence. Partnering with industry giants like Google and Facebook, Multiverse is driving transformative change, democratizing access to tech education.
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58% female employees
96% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"Whether that's the content in the course you are teaching of which you're developing a deeper understanding, weekly CPD (continuous professional..."
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2022
$220m
SERIES D
Sep 2021
$130m
SERIES C
Total funding: $414m
Company benefits
- Equity - every Multiverse has ownership in the business through equity options
- Quarterly M-Powered Days to refresh and recharge
- End of Year Company Shut Down
- 27 days holiday, plus 1 life event day and 2 volunteer days
- Hybrid & remote working - weekly or monthly visits to the London Office
- Team fun - weekly socials and regular offsite events
- A focus on wellbeing with access to Spill therapy support, an Employee Assistance Programme and an internal Wellbeing working group.
- We've got your health covered with private health insurance with Bupa, a medical cash back scheme with Medicash and Life Insurance with YuLife.
- Dependency leave, enhanced Maternity & Secondary Parental Leave
Company values
- We believe in equality of opportunity
- We treat others as we want to be treated
- We adopt an owner mentality
- Development is at our core
- We make decisions based on facts and logic
- We don’t take ourselves too seriously
Company HQ
Paddington, London, UK
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Founders
Euan Blair
(CEO)Prior to founding Multiverse, Euan was the UK CEO of Sarina Russo Group, an employment and training provider with more than 1,500 staff worldwide and a turnover exceeding £100 million.
People progressing
Peppa is VP of Go-To-Market, UK&I. She joined Multiverse as an Account Executive in the Go To Market Team and was promoted to Regional Director within 7 months, then progressed to Area Vice President.
Diversity & Inclusion at Multiverse
Siobhan Randell (Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion)
- We want to be a leader in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI), so we’re working hard to drive the change we want to see in the world, inside Multiverse.
- Everything we do in the DEI space is undertaken with the goal of being representative of the geographies in which we operate – and our apprentice community. Gender diversity has been a long-term challenge for the tech world. We're proud that 55% of our UK Team identify as women, this increases to 64% of our Global Leadership Team (director level and above). We're also proud of our thriving LGBTQQIAAP community, comprising 11% of our UK Team.
- We're committed to improving the diversity of our workforce, at all levels. We continue to invest in early talent through our in-house apprenticeship scheme – something we know is a fantastic route into our organization for exceptional talent from a diversity of backgrounds.
- Last year we identified improving the diversity of our Global Leadership Team (director level+) internally as an area of focus. Steps that we took included introducing robust DEI monitoring processes, rolling out Inclusive Recruitment Training to all staff involved in the hiring, and launching our first internal, Global Leadership Accelerator program.
- We’re proud that in the last 12 months, the representation of colleagues from ethnic minority backgrounds at director+ levels, globally, has increased from 6% to 19%. This is good progress but we still have work to do and are committed to building a leadership team that is representative of our colleagues and of the communities we serve.
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