Strategic Financial Analyst

At Flipdish, we’re turning the tables in favour of independent restaurant and takeaway owners by providing them with the tools they need to make their lives easier. We offer a suite of powerful yet straightforward tech solutions along with real human support, helping our customers thrive on their own terms.

Everything we do is designed to make running a restaurant satisfyingly simple in a world that’s anything but.

Due to our continued growth, Flipdish is seeking a Strategic Financial Analyst for a full-time position. This person will join as an individual contributor in our FP&A function reporting into our Director of FP&A, with the opportunity to supercharge our growth in 2025 and beyond by improving reporting and providing actionable insights to teams across the whole company.

This hybrid role blends financial planning and analysis with technical analytics, empowering the business with data-driven insights and automated reporting. They will work with teams across the whole company to improve understanding of the business and automate reporting.

• Partner with the Director of FP&A on high-impact strategic initiatives (e.g. forecasting, scenario planning, and board reporting).
• Improve and own key recurring reports like our weekly company-wide KPI deck and quarterly board pack
• Work with the Director of FP&A to develop and enhance forecasting and budget models, supporting planning cycles across teams. 
• Complete and interpret monthly budget variance analyses, providing clear insights into where performance is deviating from expectations and highlighting opportunities for cost optimization or revenue growth. 
• Look after and improve various analytics modules, including our payroll, hardware and opex modules. 
• Interpret business data and translate it into actionable insights by creating KPIs, dashboards, and reporting solutions in Looker and Metabase. 
• Write basic SQL queries to support analysis, while partnering with the analytics team for any table creation or complex data transformations.
• Be the first line of support for the business on ad-hoc data queries and critical analysis for decision making.
• Document solutions e.g. metric definitions, dashboard explanations, etc. to enable visibility and transparency.
• Handover solutions and communicate data insights and high level methodology to non-technical audiences through clear writing, visualisations and narratives.

• 3+ years’ strategic, data-led experience supporting senior leadership and cross-functional teams to make informed, high-impact business decisions.
• Expertise in data visualisation and business intelligence tools, including Looker, Metabase, and Tableau, used to communicate insights clearly to decision-makers.
• Proven ability to translate complex datasets into actionable strategic insights that directly influence business planning and performance.
• Proficient in SQL, with experience extracting and analysing data to answer business questions. 
• Skilled at writing clear, reliable queries to support reporting and decision-making.
• Strong commercial acumen, with a consistent focus on understanding the why behind the data and connecting findings to broader organisational objectives.
• A dedicated and diligent work ethic, taking full ownership and accountability for strategic deliverables.
• Exceptional attention to detail, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and clarity in analysis, reporting, and visual outputs.
• Skilled in creating clear, visually compelling slide decks that effectively communicate insights and recommendations.
• Highly adaptable, able to manage multiple concurrent projects, pivot priorities quickly and respond effectively to time-sensitive strategic requests.
• A confident communicator, skilled at engaging with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to influence decision-making at all levels.

Desirable

• Strong FP&A, analytics and technical experience.
• Experience working in data roles at technology companies or high growth start ups.

We’re a growing startup and we understand that amazing incentives will attract amazing talent. Alongside a competitive salary, we offer unparalleled opportunities for career growth. If you’re smart, ambitious, and hard-working, we’ll do whatever it takes to make you a Flipdisher!

🏡 Hub Model: We encourage a healthy blend of hub and home working.

 🌴 25 Days Holiday: Enjoy 25 days of holidays per year plus plenty of company get-togethers!

❤️‍🩹 Healthcare Coverage: Comprehensive healthcare coverage for UK, Ireland, and US-based employees.

🎭 Team Meet-Ups: Regular social events and team meet-ups. 

We’re Flipdish, an Irish unicorn (valued at over $1bn), serving independent restaurants in a world transformed by tech. No matter how fast Flipdish has grown, we’ve evolved around our customers and their needs. We’re not just an end-to-end ecosystem of technology, but a team committed to supporting people in the food industry.  

We go to great lengths to understand our customers (check out our C-suite on work experience). We’re food industry natives. We’ve worked in busy kitchens and run busy restaurant franchises. We don’t just help our customers deal with real life problems, we give them a way of competing with the big chains, growing on their own terms, and falling back in love with what they do.