FP&A Manager | Education & Personal Services

at  Xplor

Company Description
At Xplor, we believe that helping people make the most of each day is the most rewarding way to spend ours.
We give small and medium-sized businesses cloud-based, intuitive technology solutions that enable them to manage all the hassles of running and growing a business, so business owners can get back to doing what they love. With Xplor Pay, we help businesses get paid quickly and securely – without hidden fees. We built the tech ourselves, and our platform delivers secure, transparent, fast, and accurate payments.
We are unified by our purpose of helping people to succeed. So, when you become part of our team, you also become part of the personal connection that strengthens the relationship people have with Xplor products.
Job Description

WHAT WOULD MAKE ME A GOOD CANDIDATE?

We are looking for curious and empathetic people. We also love to hear from people who are motivated by meaningful work, resonate with our four core values, have a positive outlook, are comfortable with ambiguity and thrive working in an ever-evolving and complex environment. We are inspired by meeting big picture thinkers and doers, people who can be both tactical and strategic, aim high and put people first in everything they do.
The FP&A Manager | Education & Personal Services will ideally bring proven experience managing the planning activities of a large, complex company with multi division operations. They will be a change leader and value-add business partner comfortable with managing multiple, high visibility priorities. They will be a thought leader and have the potential to ascend to more senior roles within the organization.

Required qualifications for this role:

• Financial Planning & Analysis experience growing through the ranks of FP&A to enhance support capabilities (predictive modeling, analytics, etc.)
• Proactive and effective communicator with ability to organize, anticipate and plan ahead
• Strong financial modeling experience, from bottoms-up conception to delivery with insightful consideration to key stakeholder audience
• Demonstrated experience with core accounting processes and general ledger interaction
• Track record of delivering high quality financial analysis and reporting
• Strong leadership, interpersonal and partnership skills
• Demonstrates behaviors that are positive, progressive, supportive, confident, clear
• Adaptability and flexibility, able to manage fast paced change in growing a company
• Experience with BI Tools (PowerBI, Adaptive Insights, Looker, Periscope, etc.) and/or SQL is a must; experience with NetSuite and OneStream is preferred, but not required

At Xplor, we believe that the best innovation and ideas happen at the intersections of our differences - people of diverse cultures, generations, disciplines, and lived experiences. So even if you think you do not tick all the boxes, we still encourage you to apply.
Additional Information

MORE ABOUT US

We’re the first global platform combining SaaS with embedded payments, and tools to help businesses grow and succeed. We offer software solutions in fast-growing ‘everyday life’ verticals: Education, Fitness & Wellbeing, Field Services and Personal Services – and a global, cloud-based payments processing platform. Xplor Technologies serves over 106,000 customers that processed over $37 billion in payments, operating across 20 markets in 2023.

GOOD TO KNOW

We kindly ask you to apply through our careers portal or external job boards only. Please don’t send your application via email. They will not be forwarded.
To learn more about us and our products, please visit https://www.xplortechnologies.com/nz/careers.
We also invite you to check out our Candidate FAQs for more information about our recruitment process https://www.xplortechnologies.com/us/recruitment-faqs.
Please note that we do not exclusively rely on artificial intelligence (AI) when making hiring, promotion or any other employment decisions. We don’t have any AI tools in place that are capable of making these kinds of hiring decisions for us.
Xplor is dedicated to attracting, retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we particularly encourage speakers of Te Reo Māori or Pasifika languages to apply.
We are a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant

Reporting into FP&A Director you will help us oversee the tools and processes necessary to help us scale for the future in a highly visible role that includes frequent interaction with the CFO, Finance Leadership Team, and other senior leaders. Some of the other responsibilities include:

• play a strategic role in forecasting, overseeing annual and long-term business planning, management reporting, and business analytics activities
• Develop and maintain financial models to analyze and forecast company performance
• Prepare and analyze financial reports, including monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements
• Lead the financial analysis of business decisions and provide recommendations to the FP&A Director | Education & Personal Services and executive leadership
• Leverage a sophisticated FP&A infrastructure to translate company specific and external industry data into key strategic insights that drive forward-thinking business decisions
• Work in conjunction with Strategy and Business Development teams on strategic corporate matters, business development initiatives and special projects
• Drive continuous improvement to produce innovation in reporting, planning and analysi

Required qualifications for this role:

• Financial Planning & Analysis experience growing through the ranks of FP&A to enhance support capabilities (predictive modeling, analytics, etc.)
• Proactive and effective communicator with ability to organize, anticipate and plan ahead
• Strong financial modeling experience, from bottoms-up conception to delivery with insightful consideration to key stakeholder audience
• Demonstrated experience with core accounting processes and general ledger interaction
• Track record of delivering high quality financial analysis and reporting
• Strong leadership, interpersonal and partnership skills
• Demonstrates behaviors that are positive, progressive, supportive, confident, clear
• Adaptability and flexibility, able to manage fast paced change in growing a company
• Experience with BI Tools (PowerBI, Adaptive Insights, Looker, Periscope, etc.) and/or SQL is a must; experience with NetSuite and OneStream is preferred, but not require