Principal FP&A Analyst

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

About the role

We are hiring a Principal FP&A Analyst.

You will own the backend modelling and reporting that underpins company-wide planning, forecasting, and performance management.

This is a hands-on role for someone who wants to stay close to the detail, personally develop models, governance and own the work end-to-end.

You will shape how performance is measured across the organisation, defining executive reporting, operational metrics, and KPI frameworks across a multi-product environment.

Key responsibilities

  • Build, maintain, and continuously refine sophisticated financial models to support budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning across current and future products including scenario, sensitivity, and stress-testing analysis

  • Design, build, and maintain analytical dashboards that surface key financial and operational metrics, enabling fast, confident decision-making across the business

  • Serve as the primary finance partner to product, data, and engineering teams; owning alignment on metrics, data definitions, and reporting standards to ensure a single source of financial truth

  • Champion the effective use of FP&A tooling (Abacum) and evaluate emerging technologies including ML/AI where they can meaningfully improve forecast accuracy or reporting efficiency

  • Leverage LLMs and generative AI to enhance FP&A productivity including automated reporting narratives, faster variance commentary, and intelligent summarisation of financial data for senior stakeholders

  • Use Python, SQL, and other analytical tools to work with large, complex datasets automating reporting pipelines and eliminating manual work

  • Take ownership of financial governance from data inputs and model integrity through to output quality and auditability

  • Translate complex financial and operational data into clear, actionable insights for senior stakeholders, proactively surfacing trends, risks, and opportunities rather than waiting to be asked

  • Identify and lead automation initiatives across the finance team

About you

  • Strong academic background in a quantitative discipline; mathematics, engineering, computer science, or similar

  • Solid understanding of P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow statements

  • Experience building financial models

  • Proficient in SQL and Python

  • Comfortable using generative AI tools (Claude, Gemini)

  • You would instinctively question metric definitions

  • You thrive in ambiguity, move fast, and bring rigour with you

The interview process:

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

  • A 20 minute call with the VP of Finance

  • A technical take home tasks

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