Head of FP&A and Commercial Finance
- Kettering, Northamptonshire
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Performance Reporting: Develop best-in-class business, market, and competitor performance reporting, including KPIs on revenue, productivity, and operational excellence, with actionable insights.
- Scenario Modelling: Conduct market assumption modelling, competitor positioning, strategic initiatives, product and market entry/exit, and M&A to forecast business performance and support strategic planning.
- Investment Appraisal: Create investment appraisals and business cases for evaluation by the Investment Committee and LSL Group management.
- Commercial Tenders: Ensure tenders include top-quality revenue, profit, and efficiency metrics for pricing submissions.
- Planning Cycle: Lead the planning cycle, including three-year plans, budgets, and forecasts, ensuring robust and clearly articulated plans with comprehensive commentary.
- Operational Planning: Translate business performance and future trends into effective operational plans, optimising surveyor capacity.
- Design and deliver daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly business performance reports with full KPIs and insights.
- Meet all LSL Group FP&A reporting needs, including QBR, monthly FDs calls, and performance reviews with the CEO/CFO.
- Partner with the Head of Financial Accounting and Control to review business performance against budget/forecast.
- Implement a balanced scorecard approach to business performance, providing insights across financial, customer, product, and internal processes.
- Manage the FP&A Operations Manager to ensure visibility of operating costs and identify efficiency opportunities.
- Collaborate with the Head of Finance Change, Technology, and MI to drive MI/BI solutions with dynamic, self-serve reporting and dashboards.
- Act as the strategic finance business partner to the FD/MD, ensuring FP&A managers deliver top-notch business partnering and decision support.
- Lead discussions to drive business performance optimisation.
- Ensure all business decisions are supported by strategic, commercial, and financial analysis.
- Provide dynamic modelling for commercial tenders and support price and product positioning.
- Maintain an external market perspective, modelling market, customer, and competitor trends for SMT consideration.
- Deliver scenario planning outputs to support strategic planning.
- Evaluate potential business strategies, including market entry and exit, for strategic fit and ROI.
- Prepare robust investment appraisals and business cases for the Group investment committee.
- Support new business initiatives, ensuring alignment with business cases and identifying necessary amendments.
- Build and lead a high-performing FP&A team with the skills and tools to excel.
- Liaise effectively with Group and Divisional FP&A, fostering a community of practice.
- Promote continuous improvement, automating and enhancing processes and technology solutions in collaboration with the Head of Finance Change.
- Qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA) with extensive experience in FP&A and Commercial Finance.
- Strong commercial acumen and strategic mindset, with the ability to influence business direction.
- Proven track record in creating and presenting robust plans, budgets, and forecasts to senior leadership.
- Experienced strategic finance business partner with significant experience supporting senior leaders.
- Expertise in tender support, pricing, and new product propositions.
- Skilled in designing KPIs, scorecards, and business performance metrics with meaningful insights.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Proficient in technology tools (Power BI, planning tools, presentation software, Excel).
- Strong financial modelling and scenario planning skills.
- Ability to identify trends and communicate insights to non-finance audiences.
- Commitment to high-quality work and accuracy.
- Strong team player with excellent relationship-building skills.
- Experienced in developing and leading FP&A teams.
- Experience in large, corporate organisations with matrix reporting.
- Professional services industry experience.
- Experience with tenders, pricing, and product propositions.