Head of FP&A
Finisterre
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: St Agnes • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Lead
About the role
- Lead and develop the FP&A function, enhancing forecasting accuracy, financial modelling, and visibility of business performance
- Build and maintain scalable operational and financial models to support planning, scenario analysis, and strategic decision-making
- Design and own KPI dashboards and reporting frameworks, delivering a single source of truth for performance management
- Leverage data analytics to drive performance tracking, profitability analysis, and robust business cases for new initiatives
- Lead end-to-end business casing, tracking forecast versus actual ROI and embedding learnings into future investment decisions
- Partner closely with senior leadership, department heads, and operational teams to provide clear financial insight and commercial challenge
- Provide hands-on financial leadership while maturing the FP&A capability, including coaching and developing the FP&A analyst
- Implement improved systems, processes, and controls suitable for a fast-moving, evolving organisation
- Work closely with the Financial Controller to deliver timely, accurate monthly management reporting, with clear and actionable performance commentary
- Partner with commercial teams on pricing strategy and new-market entry, providing rigorous financial diligence to support decisions
Requirements
- Fully qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent)
- Proven experience in a senior FP&A leadership role, ideally within a high-growth, fast-paced environment
- Deep financial modelling experience
- Proven experience supporting both wholesale and direct-to-consumer (DTC) channels, with a strong understanding of their distinct financial drivers and performance metrics.
- Exposure to PE-backed environments and investor-level reporting
- Resourceful, creative, resilient and entirely flexible: thrives on positive change
- Experience enhancing systems, reporting frameworks and data structures
- Strong commercial acumen and cross-functional partnering skills
- Excellent self-awareness, communication, networking and interpersonal skills
- **Important**: The successful candidate must, by the start of their employment, have permission to work in the UK. Please note that Finisterre are not licensed to sponsor overseas workers.
Benefits
- 25 days holiday per year, plus up to 8 UK bank holidays (pro rata for pat time employees)
- Additional holidays for length of service
- Your birthday day off
- Up to 3 days of paid volunteering – we will support you in giving back to communities and causes
- A discretionary bonus scheme, based on company performance
- A pension scheme with Nest
- 60% product discount for personal and gift use
- 30% Friends and Family product discount
- Enhanced Family Leave policies to support you in growing your family
- Life assurance with access to an online wellbeing platform which includes, an employee assistance program, virtual GP appointments, digital gym, and a range of perks
- Access to a range of wellbeing resources, including counselling services, cycle to work, eye tests, and wellbeing activities
- Regular company and team social events
- Various discounts from our B Corp community
- Access our online Learning Library and company-wide training sessions delivered by both internal and external trainers to support you in your ongoing development.
- An hour to spend in or by the sea every Tuesday followed by Sea Tuesday companywide meeting
- And so much more!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
financial modellingdata analyticsKPI dashboardsperformance managementbusiness casingforecasting accuracyprofitability analysisinvestment decisionsreporting frameworksfinancial diligence
Soft skills
leadershipcoachingcommunicationinterpersonal skillscommercial acumencross-functional partneringresourcefulnesscreativityresilienceflexibility
Certifications
ACAACCACIMA