Senior Commercial Finance Manager

About Us

The payments market is the most exciting technology market in the world today for good reason. McKinsey values it globally at over $2 trillion and it's growing between 13-15% year-on-year. Some of the largest most dynamic brands are investing in this sector; Apple has ApplePay, Google has GooglePay, Amazon has AmazonPay, and it's not just the Silicon Valley brands. Tencent owns WeChatPay, Alibaba owns Alipay and digital disruptors like Square, Stripe and Adyen all invest millions to grow the payments market.

Planet are a technology company that's transforming payments by putting the customer experience first. We help our customers deliver a better experience for guests, shoppers, and consumers everywhere. We operate in a market that continues to evolve and expand, partnering with the world's most prestigious brands across Retail and Hospitality, and with a network of Financial Services partners worldwide.

To meet consumer demands, payments must be simple, safe, and invisible. The only way to do this is to fully embed payments in the software that runs business. By combining software and payment technology, Planet's creating a world of connected commerce, that makes payments feel good.

We're growing organically, and with strong Private Equity investors, Advent International and Eurazeo, we've the financial capital and expertise to grow our capabilities and reach through acquisition.

Function Overview:

As part of Global Operations, you'll be working with an amazing diverse team of talented and customer centric people across the world. We're building a world-class operation and you'll be empowered to make a difference so we can better serve our customers with an easy, connected, and flawless experience.

You'll find opportunities across customer facing, technical and administrative roles, customer services, onboarding, Tax Free, training, or one of the many other exciting areas in Global Operations. You'll be presented with unrivalled prospects to grow, learn and develop in your career.

We're growing fast and are always looking for ambitious individuals who want to be part of the connected commerce revolution.

Finance

The finance function within Planet has a mission to support and help drive the commercial growth of the business through business partnering and insightful management data. We are looking for talented team members who are:

• Analytical, data driven and curious about business performance drivers
• Focused on driving efficient and effective processes
• Comfortable in challenging and supporting business partners in achieving accelerated growth

Role Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Finance Product Manager, you will be the business partner into the product team, responsible for owning the financial product P&L for acquiring and currency, and supporting the Vertical CFOs with regular reporting and analysis to help drive commercial success.

You will be comfortable analysing large amounts of complex transactional data to identify the most critical insights, which will help to drive continued growth in this exciting business.

You will be required to build strong relationships across various teams and develop a solid understanding of the business dynamics across the different areas.

What you will do

• Support the Vertical CFOs and their teams with regular reporting and business analysis specific to Acquiring and Currency Conversion
• Lead as a business partner to the product team, assess capital utilization and ROI analysis of new product functionality and go to market proposition
• Analyze revenue trends and forecast variances include impacts of credit notes, outages, pricing, new on-boarding dilution, scheme fees and other penalties
• Build and maintain regular reporting and insights including a Product P&L with a vertical and/or sales channel lens.
• Complete competitive analysis to support central pricing policies and reprice activities
• Support Scheme management - support the analysis of scheme bulletins and scheme incentives
• Working to improve process and efficiencies between Controller teams and CFOs
• Leverage complex data sets from various product systems to support your analysis and reporting
• Adhoc analysis to drill into problem areas as needed

Who you are

• Bring expertise from the Payments Acquiring industry from a finance perspective
• Experienced in analysing country / division / product performance and identifying trends and seeing where best practices can be shared.
• A great communicator and adept at building relationships across teams, while exerting persistence and resourcefulness
• Must be logical, self-motivated, proactive, with strong analytical skills and a high level of intellectual curiosity
• Excellent time management skills, demonstrating high levels of accuracy, thoroughness and reliability whilst coping under pressure
• Strong system and advanced excel skills. Experience with Corporate planning tools advantageous.
• Flexible and a genuine team player willing to go the extra mile to support others

Why Planet:

Planet is an equal opportunity employer where diversity is valued, and all employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need. Come and grow your career in the most exciting, fast paced technology market, with a business that delivers feel-good connected commerce. We would love to hear from you - Apply now.

Company Background

Planet provides integrated software, payment and technology solutions for its customers in the Hospitality and Retail sectors and worldwide via a network of global Financial Services Partners.

Founded over 35 years ago, we have evolved our services, delivering an innovative digital commerce platform that puts customer experience first.

With headquarters in London and around 3,000 expert employees located across six continents we serve customers in over 120 markets.