Corporate FP&A Manager

P2P; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an FP&A Associate/Manager to enhance expense management and drive financial accountability. The role involves collaborating with various departments to ensure strategic financial planning and insightful reporting. The candidate should possess extensive experience in FP&A along with strong analytical and communication skills, ideally within a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in FP&A or financial analysis.
• Proficiency in financial modeling and strong analytical skills.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with department heads on budgets and cost-saving.
• Manage budgeting and monthly forecast processes.
• Develop KPIs and metrics for financial analysis.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Financial Modeling

Budgeting

Forecasting

Communication Skills

Education

CPA, CFA, MBA, ACA, ACCA, or CIMA

Tools

Excel

Workday

Adaptive Insights

Job description

We are seeking a detail-oriented and analytical FP&A Associate/Manager to join our Finance team, with a primary focus on expense management and cost optimization. This role will be critical in driving transparency and accountability around operating expenses, enabling strategic decision-making through insightful financial analysis and reporting.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with department heads to manage budgets, identify cost-saving opportunities, and support financial planning cycles

• Manage the production of bottoms-up budgeting and monthly forecast process

• Collaborate with teams across the business in various projects

• Modelling of various business scenarios and perform various sensitivity analysis

• Develop and improve the creation of KPI and other metrics

• Create new reports and summarize key metrics of respective Business Unit ownership

• Identify variance drivers by comparing and analyzing actual results to the budget, forecast, and prior years

• Partner with Corporate Finance and AP to ensure proper expense accruals and classification

• Assist in the preparation of board materials, executive reporting, and ad-hoc financial analysis

• Identify process improvement opportunities to enhance efficiency and data integrity

• Partner with HR and department heads to track and forecast headcount movements, hires, attrition, and role changes

Required:

• 7+ years of experience in FP&A, financial analysis, or similar roles

• Strong analytical skills and proficiency in financial modeling and Excel

• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain financial concepts to non-finance stakeholders

Preferred:

• CPA, CFA, MBA, ACA, ACCA, orCIMA

• Experience in afast-paced environment

• Familiarity with Workday and Adaptive Insights

• Strong understanding of hedge fund or asset management operating models and cost structures