Head of FP&A

Head of FP&A
Position Overview
The Head of FP&A will lead the UK financial planning and analysis function, acting as a strategic partner to the CFO and the leadership team. The role owns the planning cycle, rolling forecasts, management reporting, performance insight and strategic financial modelling, translating complex financial and operational data into a clear view of performance, outlook, risks and opportunities.

Salary & Benefits

The budgeted base salary for this role is between £80,000 to £100,000 a year, depending on experience.

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Hybrid working

We recognise the benefits that remote and flexible working brings.

We operate a hybrid working policy that allows our employees to balance time in the office and time from home. Each team within our organisation can decide how to implement this policy. If you have any questions after applying, please reach out to our recruitment team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the day-to-day FP&A function, setting clear priorities, standards and ways of working across the team.

• Own the annual budgeting process, rolling forecasts and longer-term financial planning cycles.

• Deliver clear and timely management reporting, providing insight into business performance, trends, risks and opportunities.

• Partner with senior leaders across the business to support decision-making with robust financial analysis and commercial insight.

• Build and maintain financial models to support strategic planning, scenario analysis, investment decisions and resource allocation.

• Provide meaningful commentary on performance, explaining variances against budget, forecast and prior periods.

• Support cash-flow forecasting and help ensure financial plans remain aligned to wider business strategy.

• Improve the consistency and quality of performance reporting across business units, creating a clear view of key drivers and outcomes.

• Produce accurate, concise and forward-looking reporting for the CFO, senior leadership team, Board and other stakeholders.

• Identify opportunities to simplify and improve planning, forecasting and reporting processes.

• Reduce manual reporting activity by introducing more efficient, scalable and technology-enabled ways of working.

• Work closely with Finance, Technology, Data and BI teams to improve data quality, reporting capability and system integration.

• Embed appropriate automation and AI tools into FP&A workflows to improve efficiency, insight and reporting quality, while maintaining strong governance and control.

• Build strong relationships with business leaders, offering constructive challenge and ensuring decisions are based on clear assumptions and sound analysis.

• Lead, coach and develop the FP&A team, building capability, accountability and a continuous-improvement mindset.

• Track and measure the impact of FP&A improvements, including reporting quality, forecast accuracy, productivity and business value delivered.

What Success Looks Like

• A trusted, high-performing FP&A function that provides clear ownership, strong business support and consistent standards across planning and reporting.

• Accurate, timely budgets and forecasts that give leadership confidence in performance, risks, opportunities and future outlook.

• Clear, concise reporting and insight that helps senior stakeholders make better, faster commercial decisions.

• More efficient, standardised and scalable FP&A processes, with reduced reliance on manual spreadsheets and improved use of systems, automation and AI.

• Stronger business partnering across the organisation, with finance seen as a valued source of challenge, insight and decision support.

• A capable, engaged FP&A team that is well-led, continuously developing and delivering measurable improvements in reporting quality, forecast accuracy and business value.

Qualifications & Experience

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with significant post-qualification experience in FP&A, commercial finance or business partnering.

• Proven experience operating in a complex, multi-entity organisation, with the ability to manage planning, reporting and performance insight across different business units, stakeholders and operating models.

• Strong track record of leading and developing FP&A teams in environments with organisational complexity, change and growing integration requirements.

• Demonstrable experience of improving and automating FP&A processes and workflows, including standardising planning and reporting, simplifying processes, reducing manual spreadsheet dependency and improving systems and data flows.

• Advanced budgeting, forecasting and financial modelling skills, with the ability to turn operational and commercial drivers into clear financial insight, scenarios and decision support.

• Strong systems, data and stakeholder management capability, with experience using finance technology, visualisation tools and, ideally, AI or automation tools to improve reporting quality, efficiency and business value.

About Us:
We are the tech company with people at heart.

At Advania, we believe in empowering people to create sustainable value through the clever use of technology. As one of Microsoft's leading partners in the UK, specialising in Azure, Security, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft 365, we have a proven track record of success in delivering transformational IT services.

Our Selection Process:

We are committed to ensuring an equitable experience for all candidates, regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

Please do let us know if you’ll need any reasonable adjustments as part of the selection process by highlighting these on your application form.

As part of our commitment to our clients we will need to carry out background checks, including a criminal record check, for all offers of employment. If you have any unspent criminal convictions or questions about the screening process, please notify your recruiter once the application has been submitted.