Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

GT Consulting | GTC; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in Manchester is looking for an FP&A Manager to shape the financial planning and analysis function during a major data transformation. This role offers real ownership of the FP&A landscape and visibility with senior leadership and stakeholders. The ideal candidate should be a qualified accountant with strong FP&A or commercial finance experience, advanced modelling capabilities, and the ability to thrive in dynamic environments.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in FP&A or commercial finance.
• Proven ability to operate in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.
• Ideally experience in PE-backed, high-growth or tech-enabled businesses.

Responsibilities

• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and scenario planning cycles.
• Simplify and rebuild financial models.
• Build forward-looking MI and improved reporting cadence.
• Rebuild the Board Pack for clearer Exec-level reporting.
• Work closely with Commercial, Pricing, Data, and Exec teams.
• Strengthen KPIs and performance visibility ahead of transactions.

Skills

Analytical capability

Financial modelling

Commercial finance experience

Influencing skills

Adaptability to change

Education

Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)

Job description

FP&A Manager

High-Growth PE-Backed | Manchester | Hybrid

£70,000 – £80,000 + benefits

Confidential Search – via GTC

Are you an analytically sharp, commercially minded FP&A professional who wants to step into a role with real visibility, influence and momentum?

We’re supporting a high growth PE‑backed business on the search for an FP&A Manager who will sit at the centre of planning, forecasting and commercial insight as the business moves into a major data transformation and prepares for a likely transaction event within the next 18–24 months.

This is not a maintenance role. It’s a genuine opportunity to shape the FP&A function from the ground up, build better modelling, improve intelligence, drive forward‑looking reporting and strengthen the KPI landscape for Exec and PE stakeholders.

The Role

Reporting to the Director of Finance, you will :

• Lead budgeting, forecasting and scenario planning cycles
• Simplify and rebuild financial models (current models are over‑engineered)
• Build forward‑looking MI and improved reporting cadence
• Rebuild the Board Pack to deliver clearer, more insightful Exec‑level reporting
• Work closely with Commercial, Pricing, Data and Exec teams
• Leverage new data capabilities through a major data transformation programme
• Strengthen KPIs, insight and performance visibility ahead of a future transaction

What You’ll Bring

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)
• Strong FP&A or commercial finance experience
• Advanced modelling and analytical capability
• Ability to influence, challenge and drive better decisions
• Comfortable operating in a fast‑moving, ambiguous, change‑heavy environment
• Ideally experience in PE‑backed, high‑growth or tech‑enabled businesses

What’s In It for You

• Real ownership, you will shape the FP&A landscape, not inherit it
• Visibility with senior leadership and private equity stakeholders
• A forward‑looking role driving insight, not a backward‑reporting FP&A job
• Chance to be central to a significant transformation and future transaction
• Manchester‑based with hybrid flexibility

If you like the sound of building something meaningful rather than maintaining the status quo, I’d love to speak with you.

Apply confidentially via John Dyson at GT Consulting (GTC).