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Napier

Head of FP&A

Napier

Head of FP&A leading financial strategy and analysis at Napier's AI-based platform enhancing financial safety and trust.

Posted 7/8/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own the companywide budgeting, forecasting, and long‑range planning cycles, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and alignment with strategic goals.
  • Continuously improve financial models with reference to AI native approaches, improving accuracy, efficiency and insight delivered
  • Ensure data foundations are in place to support a move to AI native approaches across finance and the wider business.
  • Lead monthly and quarterly performance reporting, including variance analysis, commercial insights, and recommendations for the Executive Leadership Team.
  • Elevate financial storytelling through dashboards, visualisations, and insight that drives action and supports decision making. Challenge the status quo to have impact, don’t accept “good enough” strive for leading approaches that move the dial.
  • Act as a strategic advisor to senior stakeholders across Product, GTM, Sales, Operations, and Engineering.
  • Support commercial decision‑making, in particular pricing strategy and investment cases.
  • Support strategic projects including M&A, due diligence, and transaction analysis—drive the business to transaction-readiness – maintaining the quality of financial data, models and reporting needed to support diligence and strategic processes.
  • Re-engineer financial systems, data and reporting around AI and automation – improving data integrity, forecasting accuracy and the speed of the close and reporting cycle.
  • Drive continuous improvement across all FP&A workflows.
  • Ensure compliance with internal controls and support audit requirements.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Professional qualification: ACA, ACCA, CIMA (or equivalent) preferred.
  • 7+ years’ experience in financial planning & analysis, ideally within SaaS, fintech, or fast‑growth technology businesses.
  • Advanced three‑statement modelling and financial analysis expertise.
  • Strong experience partnering with senior leaders in commercial, product, and operational teams.
  • Exposure to PE-backed environments, lender/covenant reporting or transaction diligence is an advantage.
  • Highly proficient with Excel, financial systems (NetSuite, HubSpot), and modern BI tools.
  • Genuine appetite to build an AI-native finance function – comfortable implementing the use of AI and automation tools in day-to-day forecasting, modelling and reporting, not just talking about them.
  • Exceptional communication and presentation skills - able to influence and challenge senior stakeholders.
  • Comfortable operating in a fast‑paced, high‑growth, data‑driven environment.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • - Comprehensive private healthcare through AXA covering optical, audio & dental.
  • - 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays + your birthday and a wellness day
  • - Dedicated pension plan through Aviva.
  • - Life Insurance 4x your annual salary.
  • - Enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave.
  • - Income protections policy.
  • - Work from anywhere for up to 1 month.
  • - Access to our employee wellbeing programme.
  • - Gym membership discounts.
  • - Flexibility in work schedules and locations, ensuring a work-life balance.
  • - This role can be fulfilled either with a hybrid approach or fully in-office – depending on your preference.
  • - An open and flexible culture that allows you to work in the best way for you.

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Hard Skills & Tools
Financial AnalysisBudgetingForecastingVariance AnalysisData IntegrityFinancial ReportingTransaction AnalysisPricing StrategyM&A SupportContinuous Improvement
Soft Skills
Influencing Senior StakeholdersChallenging Status QuoStrategic AdvisingCollaborationPresentation Skills
Certifications
ACAACCACIMA