FP&A Manager

  • London
  • Full Time (Permanent)
  • Hybrid
  • Finance

About the role

We’re looking for an FP&A Manager to lead our financial planning and performance management. Reporting into the VP of Finance, this will role partner closely with senior stakeholders (including C-Suite), providing them with insight, constructive challenge, and forward looking analysis to support strategic decision making.

This role suits a hands-on finance professional with the vision and drive to build a “best-in-class” FP&A function, free from heavy legacy processes. It offers a strong platform to shape how the business plans, measures performance, and makes decisions, with clear scope to make a lasting impact.

Key responsibilities

  • Manage the group’s forecasting and planning processes, including ownership of the annual planning cycle and regular updates to core financial models (P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow)

  • Design, build, and enhance FP&A processes, models, and reporting frameworks from first principles, supporting a planning and performance capability that scales with the business

  • Drive the adoption of our core FP&A reporting platform (Abacum), including design of data models, reporting structures, dimensionality and reporting cadence

  • Lead monthly P&L reporting, variance analysis, and KPI tracking for senior leadership and product managing directors

  • Partner closely with product, commercial, and operational teams to support planning, prioritisation, and resource allocation with credible analysis

  • Maintain a strong working knowledge of the company’s financial models, with a detailed understanding of underlying business drivers, assumptions, and sensitivities

  • Uphold high standards of data governance and financial modelling across the organisation, ensuring reliable and auditable decision support as data sources and automation scale

About you

  • Qualified Accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA)

  • Experience in a similar role (finance, FP&A, strategic finance, etc.) in a fast-growing fintech or tech startup

  • Strong financial modelling, forecasting and analytical skills and experience working with FP&A softwares, platforms and advanced Excel / Sheets

  • Commercially minded, with the ability to influence stakeholders, challenge constructively, and communicate clearly, building effective working relationships at all levels across the organisation.

  • Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving work environment with a high degree of ownership

  • Proficiency in coding, ideally SQL, preferable but not required

The interview process:

  • A quick remote call with one of the hiring team and follow-up 15 minute cognitive assessment.

  • A remote call with the VP of Finance.

  • A 90 minute on site case exercise (P&L, cash flow, and write up), followed by a short debrief.

  • A 60 minute on site interview with finance leadership and other members of the senior leadership team.