FP&A Lead

About Griffin

Hi, we’re Griffin! We’re the bank for companies who want to build and launch financial products.

Our context

We're rapidly heading towards a future where most of us access financial services through technology companies rather than high street banks. All sorts of companies are now embedding financial products into their apps and user journeys so that their customers can seamlessly make payments, manage expenses, take out loans, save, invest, and do more.

The problem is that companies are still dependent on legacy banking infrastructure if they want to offer regulated financial products. They need to either partner directly with an (slow-moving, risk-averse) incumbent bank and/or stitch together middleware from various Banking as a Service (BaaS) providers. This process is slow, expensive, and complex and makes it very hard for companies to get new financial products off the ground.

At Griffin, we want to change this.

Our purpose

We want to make it easy for companies to bring finance to their customers at the point of greatest relevance. So, we built a bank.

But not just any bank! Griffin is a technology platform and a bank: fully regulated, API-first, developer-centric, and purpose-built to serve innovative fintechs and brands who want to build and embed financial products.

Learn more about what we do.

Our culture

Our culture is our most important asset, and one of the ways we safeguard it is by being extremely intentional about hiring the right people. We won't hire people who don’t seem like a strong fit for our core values, even if they're otherwise extremely qualified.

We also believe that smart, motivated, conscientious people thrive in high-trust, high-autonomy environments. That’s why we’re transparent by default, and we encourage open discussion and challenge across all levels of the organisation. We’re also remote-first, asynchronous, and fully flexible - because you're the expert on how and when you do your best work.

Learn more about our culture.

The Finance team

The Finance team is recruiting! If successful, you'll be reporting directly to our Head of Finance, as well as working closely with other functions of the business. You will have a real and meaningful impact on the success of the Finance function at Griffin, as we lay the foundations of the future of global financial infrastructure. Our vision is that we will build a Finance team to be a central part of the business, somewhere the Board can rely on to support strategic planning.

Who are you

You will have most of the following:

• Qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA), with post qualification experience
• Proven experience with budgeting, forecasting and financial strategy responsibility in the Financial Services industry (ideally Banking)
• Advanced modelling and analysis skills (Excel and/or Google Sheets)
• A solid understanding of banking capital planning and regulatory requirements
• Experience preparing and presenting MI to Executive teams
• A high degree of comfort adopting new software tools for document drafting, collaboration and communication.
• A love of writing - we have a major amount of written documentation that you will be contributing to, and we place a high degree of importance on clarity and readability (you can find out more here about how we write )
• Curious and open minded about using AI tools to boost productivity - whether it's for modelling, analysis or drafting, we expect you to be exploring new ways to grow your impact

What will you be doing here?

As a FP&A Lead at Griffin, you will play a pivotal role in shaping how we plan, track and communicate our financial performance. We'll rely on you to:

• Lead Financial Planning Model - Create and maintain sophisticated financial planning models that support strategic initiatives and business case evaluations.
• Budgeting and Forecasting - Develop and execute periodic budgeting and forecasting processes to help us plan effectively as we grow.
• MI and Reporting - Produce and present comprehensive, clear reports to senior management and stakeholders, support monthly capital planning and annual production of the financial statements. An example could look like producing a one-pager where someone else would write ten.
• Cross functional collaboration - Work closely with teams to understand, analyse and track financial performance, explain variances and align financial planning with operational reality.
• Compliance - Keep us on track with accounting standards and regulatory changes, ensuring our financial practices remain compliant.

What can we offer you?

We are an early stage startup and we're working hard to expand our benefits package. We're planning to add to this list in the future, but here's what we can offer today:

• Remote-first flexibility - work from anywhere in the UK
• 25 days off a year + winter break (we close in between Christmas and New Year) + bank holidays
• Support with home office setup
• Tax-advantaged stock options under HMRC's Company Share Option Plan (CSOP)
• 1:1 coaching and therapy through Oliva
• Auto-enrolment into company pension scheme with Penfold
• Enhanced parental leave with up to 6 months at full pay
• Private medical insurance and life insurance (provided by Vitality and AIG respectively)

As a bank, we’re committed to upholding the highest standards of security. This means that the successful candidate will need to complete background screening, and our offer will be conditional upon satisfactory outcome of these checks. This would include verification of right to work, criminal record, credit history, social media and professional reference checks.

How do I apply?

Are we your next move? Apply via the link below, if there's a match our Talent team will reach out to schedule an initial conversation and talk you through our what happens next.

We’re remote-first

We have a small London office in Moorgate, but we are comfortable hiring people to work from anywhere in the UK. About a third of the company is based within occasional commuting distance of London, the rest are full-time remote.

Under representation

Our goal is for Griffin to proportionally represent the diversity of the working population in society. We’re working to ensure that Griffin is a supportive, empowering and inclusive environment for every member of our team — whatever your combination of race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, physical ability, nationality, neurodiversity, and religious beliefs. If you’re part of a group that is under-represented in fintech, we’d love to hear from you