Head of FP&A

Responsibilities

• 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" and 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 while 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

• 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.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in financial planning and analysis, with a strong focus on advanced three statement modeling, AI native financial systems and strategic advisory capabilities. Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive continuous improvement in financial processes and reporting.