FP&A Lead: Strategic Planning & Performance

Pure Search; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Pure Search is seeking an FP&A Lead to report to the CFO, owning planning processes, forecasting, and financial analysis across the business. You will build multi-scenario models, partner with engineering and operations, and drive automation for scalable planning as the company grows.

You’ll provide clear insights to senior leaders, deliver board-ready reporting, and help shape strategic decisions with precise financial inputs.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in FP&A, finance business partnering, or strategic finance roles.
• Strong modelling and analytical skills, with the ability to build clean, scalable, and insightful models.
• Experience in hardware, manufacturing, robotics, or capital-intensive businesses is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills – you can distil complexity and frame trade-offs clearly for senior stakeholders.
• Self-starter with a builder’s mindset – comfortable designing processes from scratch in a fast-paced environment.
• Deep understanding of cost structures, capital planning, and cash flow modelling.

Responsibilities

• Lead the company’s annual budgeting and quarterly reforecasting processes.
• Develop and maintain multi-scenario financial models that support strategic and operational decision-making.
• Partner with business functions to build accurate, data-driven plans across headcount, OPEX, CAPEX, and project spend.
• Provide visibility on burn, run rate, variance to plan, and budget utilisation across the company.
• Deliver regular financial reporting and commentary for the leadership team and board.
• Develop dashboards and tools to improve transparency and accountability across teams.

Skills

Financial modelling

FP&A

Budgeting

Dashboards

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Job description

Pure Search is seeking an FP&A Lead to report to the CFO, owning planning processes, forecasting, and financial analysis across the business. You will build multi-scenario models, partner with engineering and operations, and drive automation for scalable planning as the company grows.

You’ll provide clear insights to senior leaders, deliver board-ready reporting, and help shape strategic decisions with precise financial inputs.