About the Role
The Financial Analytics team is seeking a Team Leader to enhance the company's financial reporting, KPIs, and business planning. This role requires technical proficiency in data, a finance background, and a commercial mindset, with the ability to interpret data for business leaders and drive innovation.
Responsibilities
- Own Awin’s financial reporting and forecasting suite, including sales, revenue, customer lifecycle, opex, personnel, and KPIs, utilizing BI and EPM tools.
- Support the Global Head of Financial Analytics in developing vision, strategy, roadmap planning, and innovation, such as integrating new tools, AI, and ML.
- Translate the roadmap into distinct phases: discovery, design, implementation, and validation, ensuring each phase has clear deliverables, owners, and timelines.
- Define business logic and semantic layers for Awin’s financial and business analytics.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand and resolve real business problems, serving as their primary point of contact.
- Coach two direct reports (Senior Financial Analyst, Financial Analyst) and one dotted line report (Data Engineer), promoting technical growth and innovative problem-solving while ensuring high-quality deliverables.
- Collaborate with other squads within Data Engineering to ingest and model necessary data.
- Manage the squad backlog, including refining requirements, prioritizing user stories, and ensuring clarity and alignment with stakeholders.
- Lead sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
Requirements
- 5+ Years in Financial or Business Analytics, including Product Ownership / Squad Leadership experience.
- Knowledge of Accounting / Finance.
- Bachelor’s Degree in a Finance, Business, or Analytics related field.
- Expertise with SQL and Tableau is essential.
- Experience with an EPM platform (e.g. Pigment, Anaplan) is a strong advantage.
- Fluent English.
- An additional European language is advantageous but not essential.
- Analytical, pro-active, and inquisitive with a proven ability to take ownership and generate valuable new ideas.
- Exceptional communication skills, capable of discussing technical details with engineers and strategy with management.
Skills
- SQL
- Tableau
- EPM platform (e.g. Pigment, Anaplan)
- Product Ownership
- Squad Leadership
- Accounting
- Finance
- Data Analysis
- Financial Modelling
- BI tools
- EPM tools
- AI
- ML
Location
- Multiple countries
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Remote
Experience Level
- 5+ Years in Financial or Business Analytics
- Product Ownership / Squad Leadership experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s Degree in a Finance, Business or Analytics related field
- CIMA, ACCA, CFA or equivalent (preferred, not required)
Benefits
- Four-day Flexi-Week at full pay
- No reduction to annual holiday allowance
- Hybrid/remote working scheme
- Monthly allowance for running costs
- Furniture package for home workspace
- Support and access to health and wellbeing initiatives and sports offers
- Access to Awin Academy for professional and personal growth
- Peer-to-peer recognition programme
- Additional benefits discussed during interview
About the Company
- Established in 2000, Awin is proud of our dynamic, social and inclusive culture.
- Our virtual ‘Life @ Awin’ hub brings colleagues from across the globe together for various social activities.
- Awin is part of the Axel Springer group.
Equal Opportunity
- Diversity & Inclusion are paramount to us, and we proudly pursue and hire diverse team members.
- We champion uniqueness and authenticity; this is who we are at our core.
- Our network of affiliate partnerships are diverse and transparent, as are the employees powering our vision to build the world’s leading open partner ecosystem.
- We welcome all backgrounds, identities, and experiences.
- If you need support at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.
