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.
While professional experience and qualifications are key for this role, make sure to check you have the preferable soft skills before applying if required.
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 xwzovoh
- 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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