Financial Planning & Analysis Director

Elliptic; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Part time

Job summary

A high-growth SaaS business in London seeks an Interim FP&A Director to drive financial planning and analytics. This freelance opportunity offers a hybrid working model and focuses on enhancing forecasting, revenue analytics, and guiding fundraising efforts. Candidates should have significant FP&A experience, strong financial modeling skills, and a background in SaaS. Benefits include a generous annual leave policy and a budget for home office setup.

Benefits

GBP 500 Remote working budget

$1,000 Learning & Development budget

25 days of annual leave + bank holidays

Private Health Insurance

Access to Mental Health Support

Cycle to Work Scheme

Qualifications

• Significant experience in FP&A or Strategic Finance, especially in scale-up environments.
• Expert financial modelling and scenario planning skills.
• Strong grasp of SaaS metrics and unit economics.

Responsibilities

• Lead and elevate FP&A function to improve financial planning and forecasting.
• Partner with teams for revenue analytics and performance management.
• Support CFO and executives with insights and fundraising efforts.

Skills

Financial modelling

SaaS metrics understanding

Communication skills

Strategic Finance experience

Job description

Financial Planning & Analysis Director

Department: Finance

Employment Type: Freelance

Location: London, UK

Description

Elliptic is a high-growth SaaS business seeking an energetic, ambitious Interim FP&A Director to lead and elevate our FP&A function. This is a 6-month contract (with potential extension), based in London with a hybrid working model, starting ASAP and reporting directly to our CFO.

Key Responsibilities

• Planning and forecasting
  • Support and enhance rolling forecasts and scenario planning across base, upside and downside cases.
  • Collaborate on annual and mid-year planning, helping align GTM capacity, product roadmap and hiring plans with targets.
  • Work with the team to translate company strategy into financial plans, targets, and metrics.
  • Develop scenario analyses and sensitivities for key strategic choices.
• Revenue and GTM analytics
  • Partner with RevOps and the FP&A team to enhance bookings and ARR forecasting, pipeline-to-revenue conversion, pricing and discounting guardrails.
  • Expand cohort analysis capabilities for retention and expansion, including NRR, GDR and churn drivers.
  • Support commission plan modelling and performance analytics.
• Performance management
  • Contribute to monthly KPI packs and board materials - ensuring alignment on definition & measurement across functions.
  • Help track Growth Efficiency Index, Burn Multiple, CAC payback and unit economics, and develop supporting narrative for investors.
  • Work with functional leaders to establish variance analysis and corrective action routines.
• Business partnering and leadership
  • Support the CFO and Execs as a thought partner, contributing to narrative for investors and board.
  • Collaborate with and mentor the FP&A function, helping enhance tooling, processes and data quality.
  • Work alongside the team to optimize cross-functional data flow between CRM, billing, data warehouse and ERP.
• Fundraising and investor support
  • Build and refine fundraising materials: financial model, metrics, and narrative.
  • Support investor outreach with data-backed talking points and analyses.
  • Assist in preparing and running the financial workstream for due diligence, including Q&A.
• Reporting insight and alignment
  • Support on cross functional reporting alignment, sourcing from one version of the truth.
  • Partner with Ops to ensure source data accuracy.
  • Support identification of key KPIs and analysis for dashboards.
  • Contribute to creating live dashboards for real time strategic decision making.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• Significant experience in FP&A or Strategic Finance, including scale‑up environments
• Expert financial modelling and scenario planning skills
• Strong grasp of SaaS metrics and unit economics
• Exceptional communication: can simplify complexity for non-finance stakeholders
• Comfortable operating hands‑on while influencing at Exec and Board level

Nice to have:

fintech, crypto, or compliance/RegTech experience; experience with modern FP&A tooling, proven track record supporting equity fundraising and diligence

Job Benefits

How we work:

• Hybrid working and the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year
• GBP 500 Remote working budget to set up your home office space

Learning & Development:

• $1,000 Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development

Vacation/ Leave:

• Holidays: 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
• An extra day for your birthday
• Enhanced parental leave: we provide eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption, 16 weeks fully-paid leave and leave.

Benefits:

• Private Health Insurance - we use Vitality!
• Full access to Spill Mental Health Support
• Life Assurance: we hope you will never need this - but our cover is for 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries
• GBP 100 Crypto for you!
• Cycle to Work Scheme