FP&A Analyst

Location: London, Oval (Hybrid 2 days per week from home)

Salary: £35,000–£45,000 + stock options + benefits

Contract: Full-time

👋 About The Role

Hi, I'm Anna, CFO at Zen Educate. We're scaling across the UK, and US, and our finance function is moving from "reporting what happened" to "shaping what happens next". We're hiring an FP&A Analyst / Business Partner to help lead that shift.

This is not a role where you inherit a polished machine and keep it ticking. You'll help build it. You'll own core reporting, sit at the centre of our budget and reforecast cycles, and be the finance partner our Regional Directors call when they need an answer they can act on.

We're looking for someone with real rigour and a genuine itch for efficiency: the kind of person who automates a process once, removing manual steps to make room for strategic insight. If you are excited by a role with strategic, measurable impact whilst collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders, we'd love to meet you

🌍 What we’re building and why

Here’s the challenge: UK schools spend over £2 billion a year on temporary staff. But £600m of that goes straight into the pockets of recruitment agencies, money that should be going back into classrooms and teachers’ pay. So we’re doing things differently.

Zen Educate is an online platform that gives schools instant access to fully vetted teachers and support staff. Since launching in 2017, we’ve already saved schools over £30 million, that’s gone straight back…