About the Role
The Commercial Planning team provides financial insight to shape growth, partnering with various teams to ensure accurate and useful planning. This role involves owning analytical workstreams for acquisition channels and building trusted relationships for effective finance business partnering. It's ideal for individuals energized by complex models, influencing commercial decisions, and providing clarity.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end revenue and customer acquisition budget (CAB) planning for acquisition channels.
- Build scalable financial models, run scenario analyses, and deliver proactive performance insights to senior stakeholders.
- Act as the primary finance business partner for channel leads, building trusted relationships.
- Embed financial models into commercial decision-making and influence assumptions through rigorous analysis.
- Conduct deep-dive analyses at country, merchant category, and channel level to identify revenue risks and opportunities.
- Present findings clearly to senior, non-technical audiences.
- Build business cases and product-level revenue forecasts to support growth initiatives.
- Contribute to the migration of commercial planning from spreadsheets to scalable forecasting tools.
- Help reduce manual effort in month-end reporting workflows.
- Provide day-to-day guidance to an intern and/or analyst.
Requirements
- Strong experience in FP&A, revenue planning, business analytics, or management consulting.
- Track record of independently owning complex analytical workstreams.
- Expert-level financial modelling skills, including multi-driver models and scenario analysis.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets.
- Proven ability to act as a trusted finance business partner to commercial or marketing stakeholders.
- Comfortable influencing decisions and building relationships across functions.
- Working knowledge of SQL for data extraction and manipulation from large datasets.
- Clear and structured communicator, able to translate complex analysis into sharp, actionable insight for senior non-technical audiences.
- Comfort working in fast-moving environments where priorities shift and structure is still being built.
Skills
- Financial modelling
- Scenario analysis
- Excel
- Google Sheets
- SQL
- Communication
- Business partnering
Location
- Berlin
- London
Work Type
- Office-first setup
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Virtual Stock Option programme
- Dedicated annual L&D budget of €2000 (Berlin)
- Corporate pension scheme (up to 20% match in Berlin)
- 28 days of paid leave plus public holidays and special leave days
- Urban Sports Club subsidy (Berlin)
- Kita placement assistance (Berlin)
- Subsidised office lunches (Berlin)
- 1-month sabbatical after 3 years of service
- Referral Bonus
- Private health insurance, including optical and dental (London)
- Salary-sacrifice commuter benefits via Gogeta (London)
- Retirement scheme (SumUp matches 7% when you contribute 5% in London)
- Life insurance from MetLife for 2x your salary (London)
About the Company
- SumUp empowers small businesses globally with simple and affordable tools to thrive.
- Over 4 million businesses in 37 markets rely on SumUp for payments, finance, and customer relationships.
- Comprised of over 3,000 SumUppers from over 90 nationalities, united by global collaboration and an innovative mindset.
- Fosters inclusivity and a continuous learning culture, providing a safe space for personal and professional growth.
- Strives to create an environment where everyone belongs and feels supported.
Equal Opportunity
- SumUp is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, actively seeking and embracing diversity in our workforce.
- Hiring and employment decisions are not based on race, colour, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age or any other basis protected by applicable laws or prohibited by company policy.
- Committed to creating a safe and respectful workplace where harassment of any form is strictly prohibited.
