FM&A Lead

Position Title: FM&A Lead

Reports to: Executive VP

Location: London, UK, with regular overlap with US hours

Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent

About BibliU

BibliU is an award-winning, technology-led B2B company transforming the $65bn educational content industry. With a 90% CAGR the past 5 years, we are just getting started. We've cracked the code on Day 1 access to affordable digital course materials for students, while delivering comprehensive campus store solutions that foster human relationships, and increase our stickiness in the world of AI.

The result? Measurable impact: 10% higher student retention, 1-point GPA increases, and partnerships with 170 universities serving 600,000 students each year.

We've fundamentally changed how universities procure, distribute, and manage learning content. We partner with 4,000+ publishers, including Pearson, Oxford University Press, and Wiley to deliver content to universities, and provide rich engagement data and interactive tools like quizzes that help students actually learn.

Here's what makes our story compelling:

Founded in late 2015 as an Oxford University spin out, we've grown explosively with 90% CAGR over the last five years, including 65% in FY25, reaching $100m in annual revenue. Our Series B raised $23m led by Nesta Impact Investments (with Guinness Asset Management, Stonehage Fleming, and Oxford Sciences Enterprises). In late 2023, we acquired Texas Book Company (now 'BibliU Campus') to become the only fully vertically integrated player in the market, driving US organic growth which now represents 90% of our business.

We're hungry for more. We're actively building our M&A pipeline as we compete head-to-head against legacy bricks-and-mortar providers to improve the faculty and student experience while boosting the financial sustainability of universities.

Our culture is collaborative, high-growth, and agile. You’ll join an experienced and motivated executive team with backgrounds from Instructure (Canvas) and other successful edtech companies with exit experience. We operate as a distributed team across the UK and US, with offices in London.

Position Overview

BibliU transforms higher education by ensuring students receive essential learning resources from their very first day, leveraging our cutting-edge digital ecosystem and comprehensive campus store solutions.

We are actively seeking a high-caliber FM&A Lead to take complete end-to-end ownership of our highest-priority strategic initiatives.

In this high-growth role, you will spearhead M&A transactions, capital raises, and commercial partnerships in tandem with external advisers, direct multi-faceted operational transformations, and synthesize intricate datasets into decisive strategic recommendations for executive leadership and board directors.

Partnering closely with our CEO, Executive VP, CFO, and General Counsel, this position demands a rare combination of advisory precision and operator agility—ideal for a proactive leader who thrives on executing details, managing strategy, and delivering high-impact business outcomes.

What you will be doing:

Strategic transactions

• Spearhead buy-side and sell-side M&A activity and growth investments, driving execution alongside investment banking, legal, and accounting partners.
• Take full ownership of execution roadmaps, including workstream tracking, diligence requests, weekly working groups, and driving cross-functional accountability.
• Direct counterparty interactions from initial outreach through NDA execution (with Legal), maintaining detailed logs of engagement history and information flow.
• Architect and manage virtual data rooms, structuring information release strategically while maintaining strict confidentiality protocols.

Materials and storytelling

• Craft high-impact company teasers, investor presentations, management decks, and comprehensive diligence responses for executive and board audiences.
• Orchestrate product and engineering deep dives with functional leaders, leading agenda design, deck preparation, dry runs, and post-session deliverables.

Due diligence and advisers

• Evaluate, select, and manage third-party advisors spanning financial, commercial, tax, and operational diligence streams.
• Collaborate with Finance to build rigorous business unit models, financial projections, and detailed headcount analyses.

Operating-model projects

• Drive cross-departmental operational initiatives alongside Legal and Finance, encompassing entity rationalization, contract mapping, and shared services integration.
• Lead vendor selection for outsourced operations by sourcing partners, benchmarking commercial proposals, preparing information packages, and facilitating vendor diligence.

Commercial analysis and research

• Conduct enterprise-wide reviews of client agreements and procurement documents (evaluating assignment, duration, control, and fulfillment terms) using AI tools in partnership with Legal.
• Perform market intelligence and target assessments, synthesizing complex sector trends into actionable strategic briefings for executive leadership.

Who you will work with

Internal Stakeholders: CEO, Executive VP, CFO and finance team, General Counsel, product and engineering leaders, operations, sales, and the people team.

External Partners: Investment banks, external legal counsel, accounting and advisory firms, investors, strategic partners, and operating vendors.

What we are looking for

Must have:

• 3+ years of experience within corporate development, transaction advisory, private equity, or strategic management consulting.
• Proven track record facilitating strategic M&A, equity raises, or deal diligence alongside investment banking and professional advisers.
• High degree of financial acumen with deep experience analyzing P&L statements and constructing complex financial models.
• Exceptional project management capability, with the ability to drive cross-functional alignment across multiple fast-moving workstreams.
• Superior narrative structuring and deck-building expertise, delivering polished materials for executive leadership and board directors.
• Flawless professional integrity and discrete handling of highly sensitive institutional data.
• Proactive adopter of modern AI technologies to accelerate market research and analytical throughput.
• Demonstrated agility operating across distributed teams with regular overlap between UK and US working hours.

Good to have:

• Previous entrepreneurial background or direct hands-on operating experience in early-stage environments.
• Active involvement in early-stage venture funding or angel investing initiatives.
• Deep sector familiarity across edtech platforms, higher education, academic publishing, or course material supply chains.
• Proven exposure to negotiating complex vendor agreements, vendor outsourcing partnerships, or commercial contracts.
• Practical experience managing cross-border transactions and operational workstreams spanning US and UK jurisdictions.

Benefits

Our benefits are all aimed at supporting a healthy work-life balance and cultivating a company culture where you can bring your whole, human self to work.

Here's what we offer:

• 🌴 35 days holiday per year (excluding public holidays!) - yep, that’s not a typo!
• 🎂 Your birthday off
• 🌱 12 scheduled company wellness Fridays off per year
• ❤️ Enhanced maternity & paternity allowance
• ⏰ Flexible working hours - we’re a remote team spread across the US and UK
• 💻 Work-from-home allowance to help you set up your dream WFH station
• 🚴 Cycle-to-work scheme (UK)
• 🛟 Life Insurance up to 4 x salary
• ❤️ Private health insurance
• 👁️ Annual eye test and up to £100 towards frames for glasses required for DSE work

We strongly encourage candidates of all different backgrounds, experiences and identities to apply. Each new hire is an opportunity for us to bring in a different perspective and BibliU is committed to building an inclusive and supportive workplace where everyone can do rewarding work.

Please note: We do not work with external recruiters/recruitment agencies. This position will be filled directly by BibliU and we kindly request that external recruiters/recruitment agencies refrain from submitting candidates for this role.