Associate Director, FP&A Analysis

EXA Infrastructure; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the telecommunications sector seeks a strategic analyst to enhance financial performance and operational efficiency. The successful candidate will work closely with executive leadership, driving insights and actions to support growth initiatives. This role offers the opportunity to influence key business strategies and contribute to cross-functional projects, making it ideal for those with strong analytical and financial skills.

Qualifications

• Experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A) and business partnering.
• Proven ability to create structured analysis for complex business challenges.
• Advanced data visualization skills tailored for diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Develop analytical insights/models to steer organizational focus.
• Lead annual planning and forecasting activities.
• Collaborate with Commercial Finance team to avoid silo reporting.

Skills

Problem-Solving

Analytical Skills

Financial Acumen

Communication

Collaboration

Tools

Microsoft Excel

ERP Systems

Business Intelligence Tools

Job description

Role Purpose

The successful candidate will be joining EXA at a defining time for the business as we look to accelerate growth and strengthen our market leadership. This individual will bring their considerable problem-solving, analytical, and financial acumen skills to directly support one of three core business functions (Sales, Operations, Product and Tech). This will include defining and managing financial and operational performance, business unit strategy, leading continuous improvement projects and development of insights to shape the evolution of the business strategy.

With such a wide scope, the role is naturally varied and will change substantially along the journey. Initially, much of the focus will be on establishing the performance basics, including guiding all financial planning and forecasting activities, as well as establishing a rigorous operational performance cadence.
Beyond the insights, you will be empowered to propose and drive actions across the leadership team to yield tangible outcomes. In doing so, you will become a key member of the executive leader and their leadership team.

Beyond this, your focus will be on contributing to the growth ambitions of the organisation, including contributing to cross-functional strategic initiatives. This will enable the successful candidate an opportunity to touch all aspects of a multi-national business, tackle diverse complex business problems, lead, and execute operational improvements, and contribute to M&A activities.

The role will report to the Head of FP&A (Commercial Finance). The Commercial Finance function is responsible for enterprise-wide data management & reporting, analytics & performance, and the enterprise PMO. The role will be a critical interface between the Commercial Finance team and the business.

Key responsibilities

· Develop analytical insights / models that help steer the organisations focus, and / or better predict future outcomes.

· Lead annual planning and forecasting activities, financial performance analysis & insights, and importantly work with the business leaders to determine what, if any, actions need to be taken

· Design, structure and operate a broader performance management framework, including operational metrics, qualitative insights, and comparisons to market / competitors’ performance

· Support the business function on developing executive-level updates and strategy papers, structuring content from a variety of sources and developing high-quality materials

· Collaborate with members of the Commercial Finance team to ‘join the dots’ from an enterprise perspective and avoid ‘silo’ reporting

· Act as the primary interface (both ways) between the business unit and Commercial Finance, supporting broader team initiatives and helping to triage business demands across the Commercial Finance team

Individual Profile

· Collaborative and keen to partner with a broad and diverse set of stakeholders, with an ability to establish and nurture relationships

· Exceptional problem-solving skills, with strong analytical skills and the ability to get hyper focused while not losing sight of the ultimate business objective

· Strong financial acumen and ability to translate this into relevant / actionable insights for business leaders

· Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex ideas to a variety of stakeholders. This includes the ability to produce executive-level material, in the form of PowerPoints and / or papers, for ELT audience

· Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and financial modeling.

· Familiarity with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle) and business intelligence tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau).

· Embody a growth-mindset, with a desire to develop new skills and content areas

Experience we are looking for:

· Experience in a role focused on analysis and problem solving, with a demonstrated ability to create and execute a structured analysis approach to address complex business challenges, and translating data to actionable insights.

· Proven experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), business partnering, and managing budgets.

· Experience in cost management and optimization in relation to corporate support functions.

· Strong financial acumen, with experience of facing into business leaders to support planning, forecasting and financial results analysis

· Extensive experience in data transformation and manipulation, especially in the context of working closely with subject matter experts to develop new insights and / or performance management framework

· Advanced data visualization skills and experience in tailoring insights for different audiences across the business

· Knowledge of the telecommunications industry an advantage, but not essential

Our working environment

We are committed to working in the location where we do our best work.
As a small and growing company with great offices in great locations, most employees will aim to be in the office 3 days a week and 2 days working from home/ other locations.

Here at EXA, we believe the future includes everyone, we are open to all applications to create an environment and culture that includes one and all. We are a proud global community, that wants to drive diversity of thought though our employees and culture.

We want you to come as you and make yourself and EXA successful.