We’re partnering with a fast-growing, investor-backed lifestyle business operating a portfolio of premium, London-based family clubs and nurseries. Blending wellness, co-working, hospitality and childcare, the group is building a unique, multi-site offering in the premium consumer space.
With several sites already live and a strong pipeline of new openings over the next few years, the business is entering a key phase of expansion and is backed by a leading global investment firm.
Reporting to the Head of FP&A, this is a high-impact role at the heart of the finance function. You’ll play a key part in financial planning, performance analysis, and investment decision-making as the business scales.
This is a commercially focused FP&A role with strong exposure to senior leadership, offering a mix of planning, analysis, business partnering, and strategic project work.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead budgeting and rolling forecasts across existing and new sites
- Analyse performance vs budget/forecast, identifying key drivers and variances
- Provide insight on revenue trends, margins, cost base, cash flow and KPIs
- Support new site openings with detailed financial analysis (revenue, costs, capex)
- Deliver ad hoc analysis to support strategic initiatives and decision-making
Monitoring, Reporting & Insight
- Track spend against budget, highlighting risks and opportunities
- Produce monthly reporting packs covering capex, pipeline and ROI metrics
- Support weekly/monthly trading reports for investors
- Build and enhance dashboards and reporting tools, ensuring data integrity
- Present clear, actionable insights to senior stakeholders
Business Partnering
- Partner closely with Property, Estates and Operations teams
- Provide commercial input on supplier contracts, build costs and procurement
- Support and challenge stakeholders to deliver within financial targets
Capex Planning & Investment Appraisal
- Own the capex budget, forecasts and long-term planning models
- Maintain a detailed pipeline across new sites, refurbishments and tech investments
- Build investment appraisals (NPV, IRR, payback)
- Support Board-level investment proposals alongside senior finance leadership
- Conduct scenario analysis and challenge key assumptions
Governance & Controls
- Strengthen capex approval processes and ensure policy compliance
- Ensure accurate accounting treatment of capital projects
- Support audit processes relating to fixed assets and capex
- Drive improvements across reporting, controls and processes
Data & KPI Development
- Work cross-functionally to improve data quality and reporting processes
- Develop and refine KPIs as the business scales
- Identify opportunities to enhance reporting through systems and automation
About You
- Qualified accountant (ACA / CIMA / ACCA preferred)
- 2+ years post-qualification experience
- Strong financial modelling and Excel skills
- Commercially minded with the ability to translate data into insight
- Confident communicator, comfortable engaging with senior stakeholders
- Proactive, inquisitive and comfortable in a fast-paced environment
- Experience in a PE-backed, multi-site or real estate-led business
- Exposure to capex-heavy environments
- Experience with ERP systems (e.g. Business Central)
- Exposure to data visualisation tools / data warehouses
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