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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates extensive FP&A experience with a focus on revenue forecasting, financial modeling, and budget management. Proficient in advanced Excel and capable of utilizing AI tools for data analysis and process improvement.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Extensive FP&A ExperienceAdvanced Excel SkillsRevenue ForecastingFinancial ModellingBudget Management
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Hard Skills
Three-Statement ModellingMulti-Entity ConsolidationVariance AnalysisDriver-Based Operating ModelsForecast Process ImprovementFinancial ReportingScenario ModellingForecast Cadence EstablishmentBudget Process DesignData Transformation
Soft Skills
Clear CommunicationDocumentation SkillsProactive AttitudeSelf-Directed LearningComfort with Ambiguity
Tools & Technologies
CRM DataAI AssistantsFP&A ToolingFinancial Modelling ToolsData Analysis Tools
Certifications & Qualifications
Qualified AccountantACAACCACIMA
Industry Keywords
Mortgage IntermediationProtection IntermediationStart-Up ExperienceScale-Up ExperienceAcquisitive Group Experience
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Own the group operating forecast as the single source of truth for short-range, detailed planning
- Reconcile the forecast to actuals and produce outputs that feed the long-range plan
- Complete outstanding forecast-model build items, including using CRM data to inform revenue drivers
- Establish and run the monthly FP&A cycle
- Perform actuals-versus-forecast analysis and run multi-scenario reforecast cycles
- Contribute to monthly management and board reporting
- Establish business owners for planning assumptions and secure agreement on assumptions and targets
- Run budget-holder review sessions, challenge assumptions constructively and record decisions
- Design and run the FY27 budget process end to end
- Plan the budget timetable, manage the project, review and challenge business inputs, and facilitate group management/board approval
- Document the model, monthly cycle, reforecasting process and budget process
- Support the permanent FP&A hiring process
- Help define the target state for future FP&A processes and tooling
Requirements
What you’ll need- Extensive FP&A experience including three-statement, multi-entity and consolidation, multi-scenario modelling
- Extensive revenue forecasting experience
- Experience obtaining input from business stakeholders
- Experience managing forecast and budget processes
- Experience with variance analysis and management reporting
- Material experience establishing FP&A functions
- Experience establishing working forecast cadence, budgets, business ownership of numbers, or FP&A role/process improvements
- Experience improving processes in a start-up, scale-up or acquisitive group is ideal
- Experience ensuring non-finance leaders own assumptions and numbers
- Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills with strong control conventions
- Ability to work with system extracts to understand, transform and use data using appropriate tools
- Comfortable using AI assistants in modelling and analysis workflows and aware of their failure modes
- Clear, concise and professional written and verbal communication
- Documentation and handover skills
- Available to start in October at the latest
- Able to commit to six months
- Self-directed, fast, comfortable with ambiguity, proactive and quick to learn
- Experience taking ownership of and improving a complex financial model built by someone else is desirable
- Mortgage or protection intermediation or similar sector experience is desirable
- Experience with driver-based operating models for transaction- or funnel-driven revenue is desirable
- FP&A tooling selection, implementation, use, or target-state definition experience is desirable
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) is desirable
