Senior Associate – Strategy & Planning
Beacon is a digital supply chain and finance platform. Our mission is to help businesses simplify and optimise their supply chains with end-to-end visibility, payments, and insights. As many of the problems our customers face have persisted for decades, we’re looking for problem solvers, big thinkers and curious optimists to help us build the future of logistics and finance.
Be the owner of Beacon’s forecast model and drive the supporting analysis to tell impactful and data-driven stories on Beacon’s current and future performance to internal and external stakeholders.
What you’ll do
- Building & refining financial models in order to build a robust forecast of Beacon’s growth projections.
- Collaborating with Sales & Marketing teams to have a solid grasp of how our customer acquisition funnel works, so that we can build excellent analysis to track progress of customer conversion.
- Working to drive the narrative and storytelling of Beacon’s business performance to multiple audiences – both internally & externally.
- We need to do things quickly, and we need to do them well. Balancing those can be challenging, and this should be a strength.
- Providing the supporting analysis for investor discussions and future fundraising.
- Support teams across the business in developing robust KPIs and build frameworks to ensure consistent alignment across the business.
What you’ll need
- Minimum of 5 years of strategy and financial modelling experience. Likely from a mix of investment banking or consulting combined with SaaS startup experience.
- Impeccable Excel / GSheets financial modelling skills are essential.
- Strong PowerPoint / GSlides skills are also desired.
- Balance attention to detail with swift execution.
- Strong communication, organisational and project management skills will be critical.
- SQL and/or Python is a bonus, but not essential.
We believe collaboration between people from differing and all backgrounds is key to developing innovative ideas towards success. We’re committed to providing equal opportunities to everyone, no matter who you are, regardless of your gender, race, sexuality, religion or anything that makes you who you are.
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