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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior FP&A professional to join a scaling SaaS business as the first into the department, reporting to the CFO. This is a pivotal role to shape the financial strategy and drive business growth.
You will work closely with the CFO and senior stakeholders to provide accurate financial analysis and actionable insights that inform strategic decision-making. It's important that you possess exceptional analytical and modelling skills, strong communication, and the ability to influence decision-makers across the organisation.
You will lead on budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning while producing insightful reports for stakeholders, to enhance operational efficiency and long-term financial performance.
Key responsibilities:
- Lead and refine the budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning processes to ensure alignment with organisational goals.
- Develop and maintain robust financial models to evaluate business performance and support strategic initiatives.
- Drive the budget process and maintain rolling forecasts to adapt to changing business dynamics.
- Optimise cash flow to maintain financial stability, ensuring sufficient liquidity for operational needs while maximising the efficient use of capital.
- Deliver month-end management reports, executive summaries, and business KPI reports, providing actionable insights and recommendations.
- Conduct detailed financial analysis and produce comprehensive reports for decision-making.
- Own the preparation of 3-way financial models to support budgeting, forecasting, and scenario planning.
- Present complex financial data to non-financial stakeholders in a clear and impactful way, enabling data-driven decision-making.
- Act as a trusted partner to the CFO, senior leadership, and business unit heads, providing financial insights and recommendations.
- Collaborate with divisional and regional leaders to ensure alignment during the budget and forecasting processes.
- Support non-finance stakeholders in managing their cost budgets, offering guidance to improve financial outcomes.
- Identify and implement process improvements to enhance the efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of financial planning and analysis.
- Evaluate, implement, and optimise tools and systems to improve financial analytics, reporting, and business intelligence.
- Provide ad-hoc analysis to evaluate financial opportunities and risks and support strategic decisions
Requirements:
- ACCA/ACA/CIMA qualification
- A degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field
- Significant experience in financial planning and analysis
- Proven expertise in budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling, and strategic planning
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and the ability to build robust financial models.
- Experience with ERP systems (e.g., SAP, NetSuite, Sage Intacct) and financial planning tools (e.g., Adaptive Insights, Anaplan, Planful).
- Familiarity with data visualisation tools like Power BI or Tableau.
This is a remote first role, and are able to be based anywhere within the UK.
Please apply with your CV if you are interested in hearing more over a confidential call.
