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Infopro Digital

Head of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

London , United Kingdom
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This role leads the financial planning and analysis team to drive strategic initiatives and improve business growth using advanced financial modeling and reporting.

Infopro Digital group are recruiting for a Head of Financial Planning & Analysis to join our finance team at our London HQ.

At Infopro Digital we are a fast-growing global information services business with an absolute focus on growth and innovation. Three times awarded Digital B2B Publisher of the Year, Infopro Digital is a B2B group specialising in information and technology. With a presence in 20 countries, the group has 4,000 employees of 79 nationalities across six professional markets: automobile, construction, retail, insurance and finance, public sector and industry. Our international presence includes a vibrant culture and offices in London, New York, Hong Kong and Paris.

The Head of Financial Planning & Analysis will lead the organisation’s financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, and performance analysis activities for an estimated 9-month fixed-term period. The role will act as a strategic business partner to senior leadership, providing high-quality insight to support decision-making, improve financial performance, and drive business growth. The role includes leadership of a small FP&A team and close collaboration with finance, operations, and commercial stakeholders. 

Key Responsibilities 

Financial Planning & Analysis 

  • Lead the annual budgeting, rolling forecasting, and long-range financial planning processes. 
  • Deliver timely, accurate, and insightful management reporting, including variance analysis against budget and forecast. 
  • Provide detailed financial modelling, scenario analysis, and commercial evaluations to support strategic initiatives and investment decisions. 
  • Act as a trusted business partner to senior stakeholders, translating financial data into clear, actionable insights. 

Performance & Reporting 

  • Develop and maintain robust KPIs and dashboards to monitor business performance. 
  • Drive continuous improvement in FP&A processes, systems, and reporting quality. 
  • Ensure consistency, accuracy, and integrity of financial data across reports and analyses. 

Systems & Data 

  • Leverage financial systems and tools to enhance reporting efficiency and insight generation. 
  • Support the effective use and development of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central  
  • Lead the use of Power BI to create impactful dashboards and visualisations  
  • Demonstrate highly advanced Excel skills for complex financial models, large datasets, and automation. 

Audit, Tax & Controls  

  • Support audit and tax-related activities where required, working closely with external auditors and advisors. 
  • Ensure FP&A outputs align with statutory reporting, tax, and control requirements. 

Leadership & Team Management 

  • Lead and develop an FP&A team of 5, including  3 direct reports. 
  • Set clear objectives, provide coaching and mentoring, and support professional development across the team. 
  • Foster a high-performance, collaborative, and commercially focused team culture. 

Requirements

Essential Requirements 

  • Fully qualified accountant: ACCA, CIMA, ACA, or equivalent. 
  • Minimum of 5 years’ post-qualification experience. 
  • At least 5 years’ experience in a similar FP&A or senior finance role. 
  • Advanced to expert-level Excel skills (essential). 
  • Proven experience leading budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis. 
  • Demonstrated people management experience. 
  • Strong commercial acumen and stakeholder management skills. 

Nice to Have 

  • Audit and tax experience. 
  • Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. 
  • Experience using Power BI for reporting and data visualisation. 

Benefits

  • This role is hybrid based in London (3 days minimum in the office, 2 from home)
  • We have plenty of options for your working preferences.
  • A fantastic holiday allowance that increases as you spend longer with the company
  • Take your birthday off…on us
  • Access to a 24/7/365 Employee Assistance Programme offering support and guidance around all areas of wellbeing and mental health, including face-to-face counselling.
  • Access to our extensive learning programmes, through our dedicated platform, Generation Infopro
  • Paid volunteer days throughout the year where you can contribute your skills and expertise to make a meaningful difference to the lives of others

What you’ll get

Our global employee benefits include:

  • 25 days annual leave (rising up to 30 days)
  • Group personal pension plan
  • Life assurance
  • Interest free season ticket loan (STL)
  • Childcare vouchers
  • Private medical insurance
  • Employee assistance programme
  • Employee recognition programme
  • Employee discount scheme
  • Eye-care Vouchers
  • Discounted gym membership
  • Agile/remote working
  • Additional life assurance
  • Bike to work
  • Buying holiday
  • Dental insurance
  • Give as you earn
  • Add partner to gym membership
  • Health cash plan
  • Personal accident insurance

Equal Opportunities

  • We provide equal opportunities to employees and job applicants and do not discriminate either directly or indirectly, because of any protected characteristic or any other characteristic or activity protected by law. To fully comply with all laws prohibiting discrimination in all phases of employment, we have set up a system of monitoring all job applications, we therefore ask you to complete the equal opportunities questions on this form.  
  • This information will be collected anonymously, in confidence and will not be seen by anyone directly involved in the hiring process, it will be stored separately and used only to provide statistics for monitoring purposes. There is no obligation on you to provide information. All applicants will be treated the same, whether or not they provide this information.

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Employee Assistance Programme: Access to a 24/7/365 Employee Assistance Programme offering support and guidance around all areas of wellbeing and mental health, including face-to-face counselling.
  • Learning Budget: Access to our extensive learning programmes, through our dedicated platform, Generation Infopro
  • Birthday off: Take your birthday off…on us
  • Paid Time Off: Paid volunteer days throughout the year where you can contribute your skills and expertise to make a meaningful difference to the lives of others
Infopro Digital

Infopro Digital delivers thought-provoking intelligence to bring clarity to the world’s most complex markets. Our global team of analysts, journalists and producers helps you connect the dots in the global finance and insurance markets to understand the inter-relationships between risk management, risk transfer, policy, technology and innovation. We are focused on helping you achieve the best results – either to generate new business opportunities or track emerging best practice – with our unique intelligence. Our Promises We provide an AUTHORITATIVE account of market trends, using an analytical approach based on multiple perspectives to bring clarity and insight to complex topics. Our COLLABORATIVE approach brings people and solutions together from across our markets to drive innovation and address industry challenges. We deliver THOUGHT-PROVOKING content, we break new ground and explore new territories, uncovering the potential for disruption and enabling change through valuable, actionable insights. Values Nothing is more important than our INTEGRITY. Impartial and trustworthy content is at the heart of who we are. We are here to create an IMPACT and to add value externally for our customers and internally for our teams We have a VISION of where our markets are heading. Our role is to think big, identify and explain shifts in our markets. We deal in trendlines rather than headlines. We are RESILIENT. Our customers rely on us, so we have to be here for the long term, anticipating and adapting to new dynamics in our markets and our own industry. We create unique, in-depth and proprietary information valued by the experts who transfer and manage risk in the world’s financial markets our information considers the inter-relationship between Policy, Regulation, Structuring, Trading, Investing, Technology, Best Practice and Innovation. Our clients “connect the dots”, generate new business opportunities and improve their operational efficiency using our intelligence solutions.

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