Finance Business Partner, Marketing

Nothing exists to make tech feel exciting again.

We’re building a different kind of technology company, one that puts design, emotion, and human creativity at the heart of everything we do. From the way our products look and feel to how we communicate and show up in culture, we believe technology should make you feel something.

Founded in London in 2020, we’ve grown from idea to global challenger in just a few years. Backed by GV (Google Ventures), EQT Ventures, and C Ventures, and investors like Tony Fadell (iPod), Casey Neistat, and Kevin Lin (Twitch), we’re now sold in 40+ markets with millions of users worldwide.

 

 

The Role: 

We are seeking a proactive and experienced Finance Business Partner to act as the primary Finance partner to HQ marketing leadership and regional marketing teams at Nothing. This is an exciting opportunity to develop infrastructure and support a fast-growing and exciting team. 

In this role, you will become a trusted advisor to marketing leaders, providing the framework to develop strategic initiatives, report on performance against those, and empower with financial control and governance to drive growth and return on investment. 

 

Responsibilities:

• Lead the build of marketing budgets, facilitate productive discussions and effective decision-making, track budget investment and ensure spending decisions reflect strategic initiatives.
• Convert global marketing strategies into financial plans, including creating, implementing and tracking financial and non-financial KPI framework to measure Global and Regional Marketing performance. In turn, provide valuable commercial insight and challenge to support marketing investment decisions and trade-offs.
• Manage Global and Regional Marketing spend vs. budgets, including reconciliation of POs and invoices, variance analyses, tracking vs. KPIs and marketing performance reviews.  
• Develop infrastructure for monthly and product lifecycle budget performance reviews, ensuring marketing spends are managed on a live basis to desired financial outcomes.
• Facilitate global communications and consistent strategy across London HQ and regional marketing. 
• Support the wider Finance and Procurement teams to develop and enforce appropriate process, approval and financial control structures for marketing spend.

 

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience, with at least 5 years partnering directly with marketing teams.
• Desire and ability to support in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, including global travel to partner with the regional marketing teams. 
• Relevant industry experience in consumer brands and/or consumer technology.
• Deep understanding of marketing metrics and proven experience building frameworks for forecasting and evaluating performance.
• Strong communication skills, comfortable presenting to senior business stakeholders.
• Proficiency with Excel / Google Sheets, and experience with appropriate reporting tools.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.