Hybrid Principal FP&A Analyst

at Lendable

• Job title: Principal FP&A Analyst
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Python, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Principal FP&A Analyst at Lendable managing financial modeling and reporting. Responsible for supporting budgeting, forecasting, and performance management in a fintech environment.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and continuously refine sophisticated financial models to support budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning across current and future products including scenario, sensitivity, and stress-testing analysis
• Design, build, and maintain analytical dashboards that surface key financial and operational metrics, enabling fast, confident decision-making across the business
• Serve as the primary finance partner to product, data, and engineering teams; owning alignment on metrics, data definitions, and reporting standards to ensure a single source of financial truth
• Champion the effective use of FP&A tooling (Abacum) and evaluate emerging technologies including ML/AI where they can meaningfully improve forecast accuracy or reporting efficiency
• Leverage LLMs and generative AI to enhance FP&A productivity, enabling automated reporting narratives, faster variance commentary, and intelligent summarisation for senior stakeholders, design a team of AI agents handling most of the heavy lifting
• Where needed use Python, SQL, and other analytical tools
• Take ownership of financial governance from data inputs and model integrity through to output quality and auditability
• Translate complex financial and operational data into clear, actionable insights for senior stakeholders, proactively surfacing trends, risks, and opportunities rather than waiting to be asked
• Identify and lead automation initiatives across the finance team.

Requirements

• Strong academic background in a quantitative discipline; mathematics, engineering, computer science, or similar
• Solid understanding of P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow statements
• Experience building financial models
• Proficient in SQL and Python
• Comfortable using generative AI tools (Claude, Gemini)
• You would instinctively question metric definitions
• You thrive in ambiguity, move fast, and bring rigour with you.

Benefits

• Best-in-class compensation, including equity.
• You can work from home every Monday and Friday if you wish - on the other days, those based in the UK come together IRL at our Shoreditch office in London to be together, build and exchange ideas.
• Enjoy a fully stocked kitchen with everything you need to whip up breakfast, lunch, snacks, and drinks in the office every Tuesday-Thursday.
• We care for our Lendies’ well-being both physically and mentally, so we offer coverage when it comes to private health insurance.
• We're an equal-opportunity employer and are looking to make Lendable the most inclusive and open workspace in London.