The Head of FP&A is a critical senior leadership role, responsible for owning financial planning, performance management, and decision support across the global business. Acting as the primary finance business partner to the Executive Leadership Team, this role plays a central part in shaping strategy, driving accountability, and enabling value creation through high‑quality insight, forecasting, and analytics.
This position goes beyond traditional FP&A delivery. It requires a commercially minded leader who can influence strategic decisions, challenge assumptions, and continuously improve the relevance, speed, and quality of financial insight across the organisation.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as the lead finance partner to the leadership team, providing clear, actionable financial insight to support strategic and operational decision‑making.
- Support the development of Group strategy, translating strategic priorities into robust financial plans, KPIs, and performance targets.
- Evaluate the financial impact of strategic initiatives, investments, pricing decisions, and go‑to‑market changes.
- Own the annual budget, rolling forecast, and long‑range planning processes for the business
- Drive high‑quality forecasting with a strong focus on accuracy, transparency, and ownership.
- Lead monthly performance reviews, delivering clear variance analysis, root‑cause insights, and forward‑looking risks and opportunities.
- Establish and maintain executive‑level dashboards and performance reporting packs.
- Deliver deep analytical insight across revenue, margin, cost, working capital, and cash performance.
- Build and maintain financial models for scenario analysis, investment cases, and sensitivities.
- Proactively identify risks, value leakage, and improvement opportunities, translating insight into clear recommendations.
- Partner with operational and functional leaders to improve cost visibility, cost control, and ROI.
- Support productivity, efficiency, and margin improvement initiatives across the Group.
- Ensure clear financial ownership of cost drivers and supporting business cases.
- Lead, coach, and develop the FP&A team supporting the Group, setting clear objectives and high performance standards.
- Build a strong finance talent pipeline with a focus on commercial acumen, analytical depth, and business partnering capability.
- Promote continuous improvement, automation, and best practice across FP&A processes.
- Own FP&A financial systems, models, and data integrity in partnership with Group Finance.
- Drive improvements in planning, forecasting, and reporting processes, including increased automation and use of analytics tools.
- Ensure consistency of assumptions, methodologies, and reporting standards in line with Group Finance requirements.
Skills & Experience
- Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
- Significant senior‑level FP&A experience, ideally within a complex, international, product‑led or technology‑enabled business.
- Proven ability to partner with senior leadership and influence strategic decision‑making.
- Strong financial modelling, analytical, and problem‑solving skills.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex financial data into clear commercial insight.
- Experience with enterprise finance systems and advanced Excel.
- Confident challenging assumptions and driving accountability with senior stakeholders.
- Comfortable operating at both strategic and operational levels, switching seamlessly between big‑picture and detail.
- A role model for integrity, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
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