FP&A Team Lead

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# FP&A Team Lead > World Business Lenders, LLC · Istanbul, Turkey (Remote) · Contract · Posted 2026-09-02 **Workplace:** remote ## Description ### About World Business Lenders - World Business Lenders (WBL) provides general-purpose, short-term, real estate-collateralized commercial loans to small and medium-sized businesses throughout the United States that may not have access to traditional sources of funding. **WBL is a U.S.-based company with a 100% remote workforce.** - This is a remote Contract/Consultant position. Standard working hours are generally 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday. Additional hours may occasionally be required based on operational needs. - Excellent written and verbal English communication skills are required. ### Position Overview - The FP&A Team Lead is a hands-on owner of a defined area within the FP&A function. The Team Lead is responsible for the quality, timeliness, and business usefulness of work in that area while leading and developing FP&A Analysts. - Current Team Lead assignments are Corporate Planning & Performance and Portfolio & Capital. Team Leads are expected to support the broader FP&A function as needed, but hiring and performance expectations will emphasize the assigned area. ### Functional Assignment 1. **Corporate Planning & Performance —** annual budget and reforecasts; consolidated three-statement forecast; operating expense and headcount planning; variance analysis; and management reporting. 2. **Portfolio & Capital —** origination and portfolio forecasting; NPL, REO, and recovery forecasting; cash and liquidity; facility and covenant forecasting; and capital scenarios. ### Key Responsibilities - Lead, prioritize, and coordinate the day-to-day work of FP&A Analysts, including reviewing work and providing coaching and feedback. - Own recurring models, forecasts, analyses, and reporting within the assigned functional area. - Review financial models and analyses for accuracy, logical consistency, methodology, transparency, and usability, and reconcile outputs to source data and financial statements. - Analyze financial and operating results, identify material drivers, challenge assumptions, and develop clear management explanations. - Lead scenario, sensitivity, and other decision-support analyses within the assigned area. - Work with Accounting, Operations, and other departments to obtain required inputs, resolve discrepancies, and improve reporting accuracy. - Maintain clear assumptions, supporting schedules, version control, change logs, and process documentation for key models and reports. - Improve, standardize, and automate recurring FP&A processes and reporting. - Support broader FP&A, due-diligence, and strategic projects as needed. ## Requirements - **Education:** - Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Mathematics, Business Administration, Data Analytics, or a related field. - **Experience:** - Five or more years of progressive experience in FP&A, financial modeling, or a closely related finance role. - Prior experience leading, reviewing, mentoring, or coordinating the work of analysts or other finance professionals. - Strong understanding of the income statement, balance sheet, and cash-flow statement, including the ability to build and connect a three-statement model from scratch in Excel. - Advanced Excel and financial-modeling skills, including scenario analysis, model construction, and reconciliation to source data. - Strong analytical judgment and the ability to identify material business drivers in large or incomplete datasets. - Ability to communicate financial results, assumptions, risks, and recommendations clearly to finance and non-finance stakeholders. - Demonstrated depth in at least one functional assignment listed above; candidates are not expected to be experts in both. - Ability to manage recurring deadlines and maintain regular communication in a remote environment. **Preferred Qualifications** - Experience in commercial lending, mortgage lending, specialty finance, banking, or another financial-services environment. - Experience with consolidated planning and forecasting, lending or portfolio analysis, liquidity and capital planning, or related work aligned with the assigned area. - Experience improving or automating recurring financial models and reporting processes. ## Benefits **What We Offer** 💰 USD compensation 🏖️ Paid Time Off (PTO). 🌍 Fully remote — work from wherever you do your best work! **Ready to Apply?** _If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you - submit your CV in English and hit_ _**Apply!**_ ## Apply [Apply at World Business Lenders, LLC](https://apply.workable.com/commercial-lending/j/1EA7BE6A94/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)