Strategic FP&A Lead

Job Description

This is a senior individual contributor role, reporting directly to the Director of Strategic Finance, with high visibility across the CFO and Executive Leadership Team. The role will act as the corporate FP&A owner, responsible for financial planning, executive reporting, and strategic financial analysis that informs key business decisions across the organization. This role is ideal for someone who is a structured thinker, able to bring clarity to ambiguous business problems, and who thrives in a collaborative environment. You will partner closely with senior stakeholders across the business and bring a confident, constructive approach to challenging assumptions and influencing decision-making.

Job Responsibilities

• Corporate FP&A planning: Lead annual planning (AOP) and long-range planning processes, own monthly reforecasting process, build and maintain driver-based financial models, develop scenario analyses and financial modelling to support strategic decision making.
• Executive & Board Reporting: Produce board and executive reporting, deliver clear financial narratives and insights, ensure consistency between financial plans and reported performance, partner closely with the CFO and executive leadership team.
• Strategic Analysis: Identify key business drivers and performance metrics, analyse key SaaS metrics such as ARR growth, expansion, churn and unit economics, deliver deep-dive analysis on growth opportunities, cost efficiency and profitability drivers.
• Financial Models & Systems: Develop and own cash flow and balance sheet forecasting, improve planning models and financial analytics, support evolution of planning systems and reporting tools.

Qualifications

• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualifies (or equivalent).
• 7+ years’ progressive Finance experience, with a minimum of 3 years in FP&A, Commercial Finance or Business Partnering roles.
• Experience with financial planning systems (Workday Adaptive Planning, Anaplan, or similar).
• Strong ability to translate financial data into clear business insight.
• Confident communicator, able to challenge and influence senior stakeholders constructively.
• Curious, proactive and comfortable operating with ambiguity.
• Resilient in a fast-paced environment with multiple competing priorities.

This is what you do it for

The nicest colleagues, a laptop, and a salary that grows with you. But there's more: competitive base salary and profit share scheme, hybrid flexible working, learning budget equivalent to 10% of your basic salary, generous pension scheme with company contributions up to 8%, enhanced maternity & paternity leave, private health insurance, cycle-to-work scheme and techscheme, 15 fully paid sick days, 5 days paid parental/carer leave, and 2 volunteering days, 26 days of paid annual leave (plus public holidays) and your birthday off, Employee Assistance Program, unlimited career support, and benefits including team outings & rewards, Perkbox membership, and office amenities.

How to Apply

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