Financial Planning & Analysis Director

Elliptic; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Part time

Job summary

A high-growth SaaS company is seeking an Interim FP&A Director to lead the Financial Planning & Analysis function. This freelancing role involves strategic responsibilities including forecasting, analytics, and investor support. The position offers a hybrid working model with a 6-month contract starting ASAP in London. Ideal candidates will have significant FP&A experience, strong financial modelling skills, and exceptional communication abilities.

Benefits

GBP 500 Remote working budget

$1,000 Learning & Development budget

25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays

Private Health Insurance

Life Assurance

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Support and enhance rolling forecasts and scenario planning.
• Collaborate on annual and mid‑year planning.
• Contribute to monthly KPI packs and board materials.
• Support the CFO as a thought partner.
• Build and refine fundraising materials.

Skills

FP&A or Strategic Finance experience

Expert financial modelling

Understanding of SaaS metrics

Exceptional communication

Hands-on operational skills

Job description

Financial Planning & Analysis Director

Department: Finance

Employment Type: Freelance

Location: London, UK

Reporting To: Bina Khatwani

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