Head of FP&A (12 Month Fixed Term Contract)

Head of FP&A

As Head of FP&A, you will play a critical leadership role during a period of transformation and growth. You will lead the evolution of our planning, forecasting, and performance management capabilities while continuing to deliver high quality financial insight and operational excellence. Working closely with senior stakeholders across Finance, Data, and the Executive team, you will help shape how the business plans, measures, and communicates performance in a fast paced, data rich environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high performing FP&A team, fostering a collaborative, commercially minded, and insight driven culture that supports both delivery and development
• Own and evolve the end to end budgeting, forecasting, and long range planning processes, ensuring financial targets are aligned to business strategy and operational priorities
• Drive the transformation of FP&A processes, tools, and ways of working, building stakeholder engagement and supporting teams through change with clarity and confidence
• Champion process improvement, automation, and the adoption of AI enabled solutions to improve the quality, efficiency, and scalability of financial planning and reporting
• Deliver clear, forward looking financial insight and performance analysis that supports decision making at Executive and functional leadership level
• Oversee monthly management reporting and financial commentary, ensuring outputs are accurate, commercially meaningful, and tailored appropriately for different audiences
• Partner closely with Data and Analytics teams to improve the accessibility, consistency, and quality of financial reporting and business performance insight
• Act as a trusted senior Finance partner across the business, proactively identifying risks and opportunities, supporting investor related activity where needed, and influencing decisions through strong financial storytelling

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading FP&A teams within a technology, marketplace, consumer, or other fast paced commercial environment, with the ability to balance strategic thinking and operational delivery
• Strong experience leading finance transformation initiatives, including process redesign, systems implementation, or operating model change, while bringing teams and stakeholders on the journey
• Expertise in financial planning, forecasting, and driver based modelling, with the ability to translate complex financial data into clear, actionable insight for non finance audiences
• Strong commercial judgement and a deep understanding of how business performance, customer behaviour, and operational decisions translate into financial outcomes
• Experience building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, with the confidence and communication skills to influence at Executive level across a broad range of audiences
• A collaborative and people focused leadership style, with experience developing high performing teams and creating an environment where individuals can grow and succeed
• Comfort working in evolving, fast moving environments where priorities can shift, and the ability to navigate ambiguity with resilience and sound judgement
• A recognised accounting qualification such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent, and ideally experience with modern FP&A tooling such as Pigment or similar platforms

Benefits

Enjoy fantastic perks such as private healthcare and dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2 for 1 share purchase plan, an EV scheme, extra festive time off, and excellent family friendly benefits.

We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days.

We operate a hybrid model, requiring Trainliners to work from the office a minimum of 60% of their time over a 12 week period. We also have a 28 day Work from Abroad policy.

We know that having a diverse team makes us better and helps us succeed. And we mean all forms of diversity - gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality and diversity of thought. That's why we're committed to creating inclusive places to work, where everyone belongs and differences are valued and celebrated.