Senior Analyst, FP&A, Europe

Marley Spoon is committed to bringing delightful, market-fresh and easy cooking back to the people while building a sustainable supply chain for a waste-free world. Our renowned chefs create inspiring and mouth-watering recipes every week, our customers select what they would like to cook, and we deliver the recipes with all the ingredients they need. We are a growing business across three continents, in eight countries and with >1,500 employees. We are using technology to re-invent the global food supply chain to reduce unethical food waste. In order to achieve this, we are solving challenging problems in taste profiling, behavior prediction and real-time logistics. However, one thing remains simple: Marley Spoon exists because we love cooking, and we love eating!

The Finance team at Marley Spoon is growing, with a mission to provide business partnership using best-in-class financial data and analysis. Our aim is to help the company make the right, fact-based decisions to move the business forward. As part of this effort, we are now looking for an exceptional Senior Analyst, FP&A Europe!

Name and location of the role: Senior Analyst, FP&A Europe, reporting to the EU Head of Finance, based in Berlin

What you will do:This role serves as a key right hand to the Head of Finance, providing timely and comprehensive analysis of financial performance for Marley Spoon’s largest region. This is a core Financial Planning & Analysis role with activities including working on the monthly/quarterly/year-end close, budgeting, planning and forecasting. This role requires a strong sense of business partnership in order to help the business deliver its objectives and make data-driven decisions.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Own the tracking, analysis, and reporting of EU performance across sales, variable costs, and base costs, across multiple brands, through mid-month and month-end, ensuring timely, and accurate completion of reporting.
• Deliver timely and comprehensive analyses of drivers of “Contribution Margin” (food, packaging, manufacturing and logistics costs)
• Conduct comparative analyses versus plan and prior periods to identify trends and explain movements in financial performance
• Deliver regular, high-quality KPI reporting to provide transparency on business performance
• Help deliver monthly and quarterly business reviews, including visually presenting financial analysis, for review with the EU leadership team
• Contribute to budget oversight for the region across all functions, including at quarterly and annual forecast periods
• Work with functions outside of finance (e.g., Procurement, Operations, Marketing, Digital, Customer Communications, People Operations) to identify and realize opportunities to lower costs and increase sales
• Work closely with other finance departments, including controlling and accounting, to ensure accurate and complete reporting, improve processes, and comply with accounting regulations
• Contribute to ad hoc finance projects, such as investor presentations and annual audit, as needed
• Work on ad hoc strategic analyses to support and help grow the EU business (i.e., pricing strategies, margin improvement, business cases)
• Work across multiple systems for mid-month and month-end closing analyses including ERP systems, BI, management accounting reporting tools and Adaptive planning system
• Participate in systems integrations or enhancements as needed

The EU is an exciting, complex and high-growth region:

• EUR 40m region
• ~800 FTEs
• One fulfillment center in Nieuwegein, Netherlands
• Two brands (Marley Spoon, Dinnerly)
• Matrixed functions, including Marketing which oversees Revenue forecasting

Who you will work with:This role requires heavy interaction with several stakeholders across various levels and functions within the organization:

• Reports to Head of Finance for the EU
• Interacts with and has occasion to present to the EU leadership team, including CEO
• Regular interactions with function representatives across Marketing, Culinary, Sourcing, Supply Chain, Procurement and People Operations, among others
• Regular interaction with EU Control and Accounting teams as well as global Heads of Accounting Operations and Reporting and Audit
• Regular interaction with counterparts in Marley Spoon’s US and Australia regions

Requirements

Who we believe can excel in this role:

Qualifications

• Degree in finance, accounting or management preferred but not required

Previous Experience

• Minimum 4 years practical work experience in Financial Analysis & Planning, Business Controllership or other financial analyst roles
• Experience understanding and working with the P&L, the business context and understanding of performance drivers
• Prior experience in Direct-to-Consumer, Ecommerce or FMCG/manufacturing companies highly desirable

Other Skills and Competencies

• Strong written and verbal English
• Excellent analytical skills, including strong attention to detail
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills; data analysis tools like Looker or Microsoft Dynamics NAV would be a plus
• Ability to liaise confidently with all levels within the company
• Entrepreneurial mindset, loves identifying opportunities and getting things done
• Assertive, independent and self-sufficient, with the ability to cope effectively under pressure and meet tight deadlines
• Able to work with people virtually across time zones and geographies
• Strong problem solving and multi-tasking skills with great attention to detail
• Project management skills
• Solid strategic thinking skills, including ability to review complex data, pulling out key insights
  & translating into concise communications
• Commercial and financial acumen and an ability to understand the needs of diverse stakeholders
• Ability to work with various stakeholders through the financial planning cycle
• Ability to see the bigger picture while having a solid command of the day-to-day details, including being able to anticipate risk
• Energetic, results driven, team player with well-developed analytical skills and a track record
  of exceeding expectations

Benefits

What’s in it for you:

• The opportunity to help shape the vision and direction of Finance at Marley Spoon
• Helping grow an organization committed to solving everyday problems in a sustainable way
• The challenge of working for one of the fastest growing start-ups in Europe
• Joining an international and diverse team of high-achieving and fun colleagues
• Growth mindset that encourages learning and development outside of your function or department
• Autonomy, entrepreneurialism and flat hierarchies
• Our meal kit, free and delivered home for you to try
• Generous vacation package, including incremental days awarded at employment anniversaries, and learning and development days
• Participation in Marley Spoon’s success with an outstanding employee share program
  

Finally, we are looking for someone to whom our values & principles resonate.
1. We are entrepreneurs

• Do EVERYTHING to delight our customer!
• Get things done. NO brainstorming for everything. Dare!
• Foresee and prepare plan B.

2. We enjoy what we do

• Delight each other, help to build and create.
• Assume positive intent and be constructive.
• Don’t complain! Look at problems as opportunities.

3. We are ambitious

• Always get the details right - better than others.
• Who cares about opinions? We care about data!
• Rigorously build the best, diverse team and constantly grow.

4. We act with integrity

• Always be radically candid and respectfully honest.
• WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY?
• Achieve more with less, avoid waste and build sustainably - for us, our customers and our planet.

5. We are team players

• We give autonomy. Know your responsibility and hold yourself accountable – no excuses, ever.
• NO ego. Flat structures and open communication.
• Disagree AND commit.