We are looking for a highly analytical and commercially minded FP&A Analyst / Associate to partner closely with the CFO in a growing accounting and professional services firm. This is a broad, high-impact role spanning financial planning, commercial insight, operational performance, and strategic initiatives, including exposure to M&A.
The role is ideal for a candidate who wants to move beyond traditional reporting into true finance business partnering, influencing decision-making across service lines and contributing directly to the firm’s growth and profitability.
You will work closely with service line leads, senior management, and group stakeholders, helping translate financial data into meaningful insight and driving accountability for financial performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the preparation of:
- Quarterly reforecasts
- Medium- and long-range financial plans
- Build and maintain detailed financial models covering:
- Revenue and headcount planning
- Margin analysis and scenario planning
- Continuously refine forecasting assumptions and methodologies to improve accuracy and relevance
- Support stress-testing and downside / upside scenarios for leadership decision-making
Service Line Performance & Business Partnering
- Act as a finance business partner to service line leaders, providing regular insight on:
- Revenue growth and mix
- Work in progress (WIP) levels and ageing
- Billing effectiveness and recovery rates
- Gross margin and contribution by service line
- Proactively identify risks, opportunities, and underperformance drivers
- Support operational leaders in understanding the financial impact of resourcing, pricing, and client mix decisions
- Help embed financial accountability across the business, challenging assumptions where appropriate
Productivity & Operational Metrics
- Design and maintain reporting on key operational KPIs, including:
- Utilisation and chargeability
- Fee earner productivity
- Capacity vs demand trends
- Leverage and staffing mix
- Analyse performance drivers and provide insight to support:
- Hiring and capacity management
- Improvements in operational efficiency and profitability
Cashflow & Working Capital
- Maintain and enhance short- and medium-term cashflow forecasting models
- Monitor and analyse working capital performance, including:
- Debtors and collections
- WIP ageing and conversion
- Billing timeliness
- Partner with finance operations and service lines to support initiatives that improve:
- Forecast visibility
Monthly Reporting & Performance Insight
- Produce monthly management reporting packs for senior leadership, with commentary that is:
- Clear, concise, and commercially focused
- Action-oriented, highlighting trends, risks, and opportunities
- Report on:
- Financial performance vs budget and forecast
- Key KPIs and operational drivers
- Support the evolution of reporting structures, dashboards, and KPIs as the firm scales
- Maintain and review sales pipeline data in collaboration with commercial and service line teams
- Ensure alignment between:
- Pipeline assumptions
- Revenue forecasts
- Actual performance
- Challenge inputs and assumptions to improve forecast robustness and credibility
Strategic & Ad Hoc Support
- Provide ad hoc analysis and insight to the CFO and group stakeholders (e.g. Kinbrook), including:
- Board and investor materials
- Strategic updates and performance deep-dives
- Contribute to strategic initiatives such as:
- New service line or pricing business cases
- Market or investment assessments
M&A / Acquisition Support
- Support the financial evaluation of potential acquisitions, including:
- Financial analysis and modelling
- Commercial and profitability assessment
- Where relevant, support post-acquisition integration tracking and performance monitoring
Candidate Profile
Experience
- 2–5 years’ experience in:
- FP&A or commercial finance roles, or
- Transaction services or audit with a strong analytical and commercial focus
- Experience in professional services, consulting, or other people-based businesses is highly desirable
Technical & Analytical Skills
- Strong financial modelling and Excel capability
- Solid understanding of forecasting, budgeting, and KPI analysis
- Ability to interpret complex data and translate it into clear commercial insight
- Comfortable working with imperfect data in a fast-moving environment
Personal Attributes
- Confident communicator, able to challenge and influence non-finance stakeholders
- Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
- Proactive, curious, and commercially aware
- Comfortable working closely with senior leadership and operating with a high degree of autonomy
Why This Role?
- Direct exposure to the CFO and senior leadership
- Broad remit spanning FP&A, commercial finance, strategy, and M&A
- Opportunity to shape financial reporting, insight, and processes in a growing firm
- Clear progression opportunities as the business continues to scale
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