Head of Financial Planning & Analysis

and go-to-market changes, and translating strategy into clear financial plans, KPIs, and targets.Budgeting, forecasting, and performance management, owning the annual budget, rolling forecasts, and long-range plans, driving forecast accuracy and ownership, leading monthly performance reviews with clear variance analysis and forward-looking insight, and ensuring executive-ready dashboards and reporting packs.Financial analysis and decision insight, delivering deep analysis across revenue, margin, cost, working capital, and cash, building financial models for scenario planning and investment cases, and proactively identifying risks, value leakage, and improvement opportunities with actionable recommendations.Cost, value, and margin management, partnering with commercial, operational, and functional leaders to improve cost visibility and control, support productivity and margin improvement initiatives, and ensure clear financial ownership of cost drivers and robust business cases.Leadership

systems, and FP&A development, leading and developing the FP&A team, mentoring the direct report, promoting strong business partnering capability, while driving continuous improvement of FP&A systems, processes, data integrity, automation, and alignment with Group Finance standards.The skills and experience you needWe are looking for someone who brings senior FP&A capability combined with strong leadership presence and a change-driven mindset.Is a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) and has senior FP&A experience, ideally within complex, international, product-led or technology-enabled organisations.Has strong systems, data, and analytical capability, with proven experience working with enterprise finance systems such as SAP, HFM, SmartView, OneStream (or similar), strong financial modelling skills, advanced Excel capability, and confidence handling, manipulating, and improving large and complex datasets in imperfect system environments.Proven business partnering and
decision support impact, including experience influencing senior leadership, shaping commercial and strategic decisions, and transforming FP&A outputs into actionable insight rather than purely reporting focused deliverables.Change leadership and transformation experience, with a track record of improving FP&A processes, forecasting quality, analytics capability, or automation, and confidence driving change, structure, and accountability in fast-paced, high-expectation environments.Strong leadership and communication skills, being commercially minded, intellectually curious, organised, and outcome focused, able to coach and develop teams, challenge assumptions constructively, communicate complex financial messages clearly, and operate effectively at both strategic and detailed levels.What we offer25 days annual leave plus bank holidaysEx-gratia day for Christmas EveDay off for your BirthdayPension; 5% employee & 5% employerDiscretionary performance-based bonus schemeLife assurance - 3