Interim Head of FP&A

Beamery

Interim Head of FP&A at Beamery transforming finance tech stack and building FP&A function. Leading financial analytics by leveraging AI tools in HR tech industry in London, UK.

Posted 5/1/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead a full audit of the current finance technology stack, identifying redundant or underperforming systems.
Design and drive the implementation roadmap for new FP&A tools — including AI-powered planning, consolidation, and reporting platforms — that maximise data processing speed and analytical output.
Evaluate and integrate AI and automation tools to streamline routine finance tasks, freeing up capacity for higher-value insight generation.
Manage vendor selection, procurement, and change management for system transitions.
Decommission legacy tools, ensuring clean data migration and minimal business disruption.
Establish scalable data architecture and governance standards for finance systems.
Define and establish the FP&A function from the ground up — setting its mandate, processes, and operating rhythm within the business.
Own the annual budgeting, quarterly reforecasting, and long-range planning processes end-to-end.
Develop and maintain robust financial models and leverage AI-powered analytics tools to deliver faster, deeper insight across revenue, cost, and headcount.
Produce high-quality board and executive reporting packs, translating complex data into clear narratives for senior leadership and non-executive stakeholders.
Lead the preparation and delivery of investor reporting — producing accurate, timely, and well-contextualised financial updates for institutional investors and other key external stakeholders, in line with agreed reporting cadences and obligations.
Support the CFO in managing relationships with third-party stakeholders including lenders, auditors, advisors, and any other parties requiring financial information — ensuring outputs are accurate, professionally presented, and appropriately governed.
Drive the monthly close commentary and variance analysis in close collaboration with the Financial Control team, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
Shape a longer-term vision for the FP&A team structure and capability, even if hiring is not in scope for this interim period.
Act as a trusted finance partner to senior business leaders, supporting strategic decision-making with rigorous financial insight.
Build strong relationships with commercial, sales, and operational teams, embedding finance into day-to-day business conversations.
Challenge assumptions and drive financial accountability across the organisation.
Partner with commercial and sales teams to model and evaluate pricing structures, ensuring financial sustainability and competitiveness.
Support the design, modelling, and review of sales commission and incentive plans, assessing P&L impact and alignment to business objectives.
Provide analytical support for deal desk activities, contract structures, and margin analysis.
Take personal ownership of data quality across finance systems — defining, cleansing, and maintaining core datasets.
Build and manage financial data models and reporting hierarchies, ensuring consistency across the business.
Harness modern AI and intelligent data processing tools to maximise the speed, accuracy, and depth of financial analysis and reporting.
Work closely with data engineering and BI teams to develop reliable automated pipelines, reducing manual data handling and increasing analytical throughput.
Champion the use of AI-assisted forecasting, anomaly detection, and scenario modelling to elevate the quality of insight delivered to senior stakeholders.
Be comfortable working at the detail level when required — this role demands both strategic vision and genuine operational rigour.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Proven track record as Head of FP&A or equivalent in a fast-paced environment
Expert financial modeller with strong skills in budgeting, forecasting, and scenario analysis
Strong executive-level communication and storytelling with data, including for board and investor audiences
Excellent business partnering skills with a commercial mindset
Comfortable working as a standalone FP&A leader — self-sufficient, proactive, and influential without a team behind them
High degree of comfort with ambiguity and the pace of an interim engagement
Experience building or significantly shaping an FP&A function
Demonstrated experience owning a finance tech stack transformation
Hands-on experience with modern FP&A and AI-powered analytics platforms
Experience in pricing modelling and commercial finance analysis
Involvement in the design or governance of sales commission and incentive schemes
Confident user of modern AI and data processing tools to drive efficiency in analysis and reporting
Experience selecting and implementing finance or BI tools (vendor management, RFP, rollout)
Strong data management skills — comfortable owning data quality and detail without delegating.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive compensation commensurate with seniority and the scope of the remit.

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Hard Skills & Tools

financial modelingbudgetingforecastingscenario analysisdata architecturedata governancedata quality managementvariance analysisanalytical throughputfinancial analysis

Soft Skills

executive-level communicationstorytelling with databusiness partneringproactive leadershipinfluential communicationcomfort with ambiguitystrategic visionoperational rigorrelationship managementcollaboration