Junior FP&A Analyst

About the role

This role converts complex marketplace data into financial insights, supports planning, and helps international teams make decisions. It bridges finance and operations to strengthen budgeting, reporting, and strategic alignment for a peer-to-peer business. You will own the reconciliation of expense accruals and deferred expenses to ensure the profit and loss statement reflects true business performance during month-end closing cycles. The position requires you to track key performance indicators across the profit and loss, balance sheet, and headcount, analyzing variances against forecasts to reveal risks and opportunities that may otherwise remain hidden. You will translate raw financial data into transparent explanations of assumptions and deliver timely, actionable recommendations to internal business partners so they can understand the rationale behind every decision. Success in this role depends on your ability to manage multiple monthly priorities independently while maintaining strong, supportive working relationships across international teams that operate on tight fiscal calendars. You will contribute to a culture where accuracy and auditability are expected on every deliverable, and where finance teams follow tight calendars with monthly closes and annual planning cycles that demand precision.

Key facts

What you'll do

Expense accruals and deferred expenses are reviewed to ensure the profit and loss statement reflects true business performance during month-end closing.

Key performance indicators across the profit and loss, balance sheet, and headcount are tracked, and variances against forecasts are analyzed to reveal risks and opportunities.

Timely financial data, transparent explanations of assumptions, and actionable recommendations are provided to internal business partners to aid their decisions.

Requirements

The posting states a bachelor's degree requirement. Practical experience in an FP&A, accounting, or finance role is expected, including month-end closing, P&L analysis, and budgeting principles, with up to 3 years in such roles.

Strong quantitative and financial modeling abilities are demonstrated using Excel formulas and structured data to spot trends and analyze unexpected variances.

Written and spoken fluency in English and Spanish is required.

A mindset for process improvement drives refinements to reporting pipelines, dashboard builds, and task automation.

The capacity to manage multiple monthly priorities independently while maintaining strong, supportive working relationships across international teams is needed.

Nice to have

Experience with NetSuite or dedicated planning and forecasting software is viewed as an advantage.

Ability to create clear executive-level presentation decks in PowerPoint or Google Slides is valued.

Previous experience in tech, e-commerce, or high-growth environments is regarded as beneficial.

Practical notes

This is a Barcelona-based role with mostly remote work and a requirement of 4 or more days per month in the office, with specifics set at team level.

Visa sponsorship and relocation support are available for eligible international candidates.

Typical interview steps

Finance interviews usually include technical questions on accounting or modeling, a case study, and behavioral rounds. Candidates may be asked to build a forecast or explain a variance. Spreadsheet skills are tested in most loops. Accuracy and clear explanations matter. Interviewers may give a real dataset and ask for a quick analysis. Showing your work and explaining assumptions matters as much as the final number.

Good to know

Work is performed on a peer-to-peer marketplace that encourages conscious consumption.

The role relies on data, financial modeling, and dashboards to inform product, growth, and strategy decisions.

Hiring for this position follows a remote-first process with interviews conducted over Hangouts.

Questions to ask

Good questions to ask the employer in the interview: what does success look like in the first six months, how is the team structured, what is the current biggest challenge, and how are decisions made. Asking about growth paths and the review process is also well received. Employers expect questions, and good ones show preparation.

Career growth

Finance careers move from analyst to senior analyst, manager, and controller or FP&A director levels. Some people earn certifications such as CPA or CFA. Cross-functional work with operations and leadership grows with seniority. Finance careers reward precision early and business partnership later. Learning the operations of the company beyond the numbers accelerates growth.