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Head of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

London , United Kingdom
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Lead financial planning, forecasting, and performance analysis while driving strategic initiatives and developing a high-performance FP&A team.

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. 
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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