Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

Company: Dartmouth Partners
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We are seeking an experienced and commercially astute FP&A Manager to lead and evolve the financial planning & analysis function within a high-growth, private equity-backed healthcare platform.

This is a pivotal, high-impact role positioned at the centre of financial decision-making. You will work closely with the CFO and senior leadership team, supporting strategic initiatives, capital allocation decisions, and ongoing business professionalisation. The role offers significant exposure to capital markets activity, investor engagement, and potential board-level involvement.

Operating within a complex, multi-entity and multi-site structure, you will play a critical role in enhancing financial visibility, strengthening planning processes, and embedding a more disciplined, insight-driven performance culture across the organisation.

This is not a maintenance role – it is an opportunity to build, shape, and elevate FP&A in a scaling business environment.

Key Responsibilities

FP&A Leadership & Transformation

  • Take full ownership of the FP&A function across the group, driving its evolution into a best-in-class capability
  • Lead the end-to-end budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes
  • Develop robust, scalable financial models to support scenario planning, sensitivity analysis, and strategic decision-making
  • Drive continuous improvement in planning cycles, reporting timelines, and data quality
  • Support the ongoing implementation, optimisation, and adoption of Anaplan as the core planning tool

Business Partnering & Commercial Insight

  • Act as a trusted finance partner to senior stakeholders across clinical, operational, and corporate functions
  • Partner directly with clinicians to translate financial performance (e.g. EBITDA) into compensation and incentive outcomes
  • Provide clear, actionable financial insight to non-finance stakeholders, enabling better decision-making
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to align financial plans with operational realities and growth initiatives
  • Influence performance through insight — not just reporting

Capital Markets & Investor Support

  • Support capital markets readiness initiatives in partnership with the CFO
  • Assist with investor relations activities, including performance reporting and financial narrative development
  • Contribute to funding strategy, debt structuring considerations, and financial storytelling
  • Support due diligence processes and engagement with lenders, investors, and advisors

Financial Oversight & Complexity Management

  • Lead financial planning and performance tracking across a portfolio of ~40 legal entities
  • Manage complexity arising from multi-site, roll-up, and joint venture structures
  • Oversee intercompany accounting considerations and consolidation processes from a planning perspective
  • Monitor banking covenants, leverage metrics, and coverage ratios, ensuring risks are proactively identified and managed
  • Assess and interpret the impact of accounting policy changes on financial performance and reporting

Governance, Reporting & Strategic Involvement

  • Support the preparation of board-level reporting materials, delivering clear, insight-led commentary
  • Contribute to clinic-level or business unit boards where appropriate
  • Enhance the quality, consistency, and relevance of management information across the organisation
  • Play a key role in ongoing business professionalisation, helping transition the organisation to a more structured, data-driven operating model

Candidate Profile

Experience & Background

  • Proven FP&A leadership experience, currently operating at Manager level or above
  • Background in a Big 4 or Top 10 accounting firm strongly preferred
  • Experience within multi-site, roll-up, or multi-entity environments (healthcare or similar sectors advantageous)
  • Demonstrated experience in high-growth, private equity-backed, or scaling businesses

Strong understanding of:

  • Intercompany accounting and group consolidations
  • Debt structures, banking covenants, and key financial metrics
  • Financial implications of accounting policy changes

Skillset & Attributes

  • Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders and non-finance professionals
  • Commercial mindset with the ability to translate financial data into strategic, actionable insight
  • Excellent communication skills, capable of simplifying complex financial concepts
  • Highly analytical with strong financial modelling capability
  • Proactive, hands-on, and comfortable operating in an evolving, fast-paced environment
  • Experience with enterprise planning tools (e.g. Anaplan) highly desirable
  • Exposure to capital markets or investor relations is a plus

Salary on offer c.£75,000 – £85,000 + Bonus + Package. Hybrid Working/Central London.

Posted: April 5th, 2026