- Are you curious, excited by experimentation and always looking to innovate
- Do you want to work in embedded payments where you can keep learning and developing whilst getting hands-on experience
- Do you want to have the opportunity to play an important role in a rapidly growing and exciting Fintech business

If so, we would love to connect and collaborate!

Who We Are
Modulr is the payments automation platform that streamlines money movement with accuracy, control and reliability - built to scale. We process more than 200m transactions and over 180bn in payment value on an annualised basis, and we re trusted by over 6,000 businesses from rapid-growing SMEs to global enterprises.
We automate how money moves into and out of a business - payroll, supplier payments, spend management and payment collection - through a single platform, connected to the accounting and payroll systems finance teams already use and underpinned by principal memberships of Visa and Mastercard and direct access to central bank infrastructure.
As a regulated payments provider with over a decade of experience, we re the platform finance teams trust to run mission-critical operations. Modulr is backed by PayPal, FIS, General Atlantic, Blenheim Chalcot, Frog Capital and Highland Europe, with over 400 employees across London, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Mumbai and Pune.

Purpose of the Role
The FPA Manager is a senior member of the FPA team, responsible for owning significant areas of planning, forecasting, performance management and decision support.
This is a broad, hands-on role for someone who can take complex or loosely defined financial problems, turn them into structured workstreams and deliver high-quality solutions with limited oversight.
A key measure of success will be taking end-to-end ownership of important FPA projects, models and processes, materially reducing the need for the Director of FPA to remain involved in their design, build and day-to-day operation. The role has no direct reports, but is expected to provide technical leadership, coaching and mentoring across the FPA team.

Key Responsibilities




Planning and forecasting

- Jointly lead significant elements of the annual budget and planning process alongside the Director of FPA.
- Own and improve forecasting methodology, models and processes across FPA.
- Challenge assumptions and hold FPA and business stakeholders accountable for forecast quality and agreed actions.

Financial modelling and analysis

- Build and own complex financial models across revenue, costs, headcount and other business drivers.
- Translate complex business questions into clear financial analysis and decision support.
- Ensure models are robust, scalable, well controlled and capable of being operated by others.

Business partnering and decision support

- Act as a proactive Finance partner to LT-1 leaders and their teams.
- Ensure spend managers are aware of their budget responsibilities and approval processes.
- Consistently and relentlessly enforce spending discipline across the business.

FPA transformation

- Take end-to-end ownership of significant FPA projects.
- Lead the use of automation, AI and improved data processes.
- Build solutions that become embedded in normal business activity and free the FPA team capacity for high-value work.

Performance management

- Own and improve key elements of FPA management information.
- Focus reporting and analysis on underlying drivers of performance, risks and opportunities.
- Ensure senior stakeholders understand what has happened, why it has happened and what action is required.

Team leadership and development

- Guide and mentor junior colleagues through complex financial and analytical work.
- Delegate elements of projects, review outputs and help raise standards across the team.




- Share knowledge and build repeatable approaches that increase overall FPA capability.

Person Specification
Essential

- Operate independently, seeking guidance only on the most significant issues.
- Take ownership of outcomes.
- Build scalable solutions.
- Grip ambiguous problems by developing clear plans and recommendations.
- Lead complex projects involving multiple contributors and stakeholders.
- Influence decisions beyond the immediate FPA team.
- Strong financial modelling capability.
- Deep understanding of budgeting/forecasting, variance analysis, performance management.
- Demonstrable experience independently owning complex financial models and business processes.
- Ability to communicate complex financial information clearly and concisely.

Desirable

- Qualified (or close to qualification) as an ACA, ACCA or CIMA accountant.
- Experience within financial services.
- Experience using AI to improve Finance processes.
- Knowledge of the payments industry.

What success looks like

- Senior business leaders see FPA as a stronger and more valuable partner in decision-making.
- Significant FPA projects, models and processes are independently owned without requiring close involvement from the Director of FPA.
- Forecasting, analysis, and financial challenge become more disciplined and decision-useful.
- Manual FPA activity is reduced through better processes, automation and AI.
- The wider FPA team becomes more capable through coaching, delegation and stronger ways of working.

ModInclusion
At Modulr, we re committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where everyone feels they belong and can bring their whole self to work. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds as we believe it s the right thing for our people, our business, and the community we operate in.

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