FP&A Manager

Volta; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health benefits

Pension

Vacation days

Job summary

Volta is seeking an FP&A Manager in London to own near-term forecasting, variance analysis, and cash flow modeling across a multi-entity group. You will design forecasting cadence, balance sheet interactions, and SOX-adjacent controls in a fast-growth data center context.

The role emphasizes building robust models, managing 13-week cash forecasts, and delivering monthly actuals vs forecast and budget with clear commentary for senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent), or equivalent depth in US GAAP-based modeling — this role requires genuine accounting fluency, not just spreadsheet fluency
• 5+ years in FP&A, with demonstrable ownership of short-range cash forecasting and variance analysis in a capital-intensive or high-burn environment
• Experience in multi-entity, multi-currency groups; comfort with intercompany flows and FX in forecasting
• Strong grasp of accrual accounting mechanics: able to build a three-statement model that ties to the trial balance and explain timing versus rate versus volume variances
• Advanced Excel; experience with leading ERPs is strongly preferred
• Comfort with ambiguity and zero-to-one process building; you write clearly and present numbers that go to the board without rework

Responsibilities

• Own the rolling 13-week cash flow forecast across all group entities and currencies (GBP, USD, EUR, NOK), including AP outflows, payroll, project payments, and intercompany funding
• Run a monthly and quarterly P&L reforecast cycle covering opex, capex, headcount, and cash runway, with clear bridges to the prior forecast
• Produce consolidated cash and burn reporting for the VP of Accounting, CFO, board, and investors, and manage runway scenarios against the funding plan
• Deliver monthly actuals-vs-forecast and actuals-vs-budget variance analysis at entity, department, and project level, with root-cause commentary
• Track project-level cost variances on data center deployments against approved budgets and purchase commitments
• Build and maintain the group's operating and financial model on a US GAAP basis, consistent with the group's technical accounting positions (capitalization policy, ASC 842 lease accounting, project-finance debt, share-based compensation)
• Model the P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow impacts of major transactions: site acquisitions, colocation and lease commitments, GPU financing, debt drawdowns, and equity events
• Establish variance thresholds, escalation routes, and reporting formats that will stand up as SOX-adjacent management review controls
• Define the FP&A calendar, templates, and data model, and contribute to ERP design during the NetSuite implementation

Skills

Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)

FP&A experience

Multi-entity forecasting

US GAAP knowledge

Advanced Excel

ERP familiarity

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

About Volta

Volta is the category-defining, fully vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform - from capital to clusters to software, under a founder-led enterprise. Our mission is The Utility of Compute: AI infrastructure as dependable and available as electricity, for every organization that needs it. Launched with a $10B strategic partnership with one of the leading frontier AI labs, a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, and a $5B AI Infrastructure Fund, Volta is building the infrastructure layer of the AI era from the ground up. We are 100+ people across London, Palo Alto, and New York, with rapid growth expectations to hundreds.

About The Role

We are making our first dedicated FP&A hire: an FP&A Manager to own short-range forecasting, variance analysis, and accounting-grounded financial modeling across a multi-entity, multi-currency group, operating at both corporate and SPV level.

Reporting to the VP of Accounting, this is a hands-on, builder role: you will design the forecasting and reporting cadence from scratch, in an environment where capital deployment is large, fast, and lumpy - data center build-outs, GPU procurement, colocation deployments, and project financing.

This is not a classic long-range planning seat. The emphasis is on near-term accuracy: rolling 13-week cash forecasting, in-quarter and quarterly reforecasts, burn management, and models that reconcile cleanly to the general ledger and to US GAAP accounting positions.

What You Will Be Doing

• Own the rolling 13-week cash flow forecast across all group entities and currencies (GBP, USD, EUR, NOK), including AP outflows, payroll, project payments, and intercompany funding

• Run a monthly and quarterly P&L reforecast cycle covering opex, capex, headcount, and cash runway, with clear bridges to the prior forecast

• Produce consolidated cash and burn reporting for the VP of Accounting, CFO, board, and investors, and manage runway scenarios against the funding plan

• Deliver monthly actuals-vs-forecast and actuals-vs-budget variance analysis at entity, department, and project level, with root-cause commentary

• Track project-level cost variances on data center deployments against approved budgets and purchase commitments

• Build and maintain the group's operating and financial model on a US GAAP basis, consistent with the group's technical accounting positions (capitalization policy, ASC 842 lease accounting, project-finance debt, share-based compensation)

• Model the P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow impacts of major transactions: site acquisitions, colocation and lease commitments, GPU financing, debt drawdowns, and equity events

• Establish variance thresholds, escalation routes, and reporting formats that will stand up as SOX-adjacent management review controls

• Define the FP&A calendar, templates, and data model, and contribute to ERP design during the NetSuite implementation

What You Bring

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent), or equivalent depth in US GAAP-based modeling — this role requires genuine accounting fluency, not just spreadsheet fluency

• 5+ years in FP&A, with demonstrable ownership of short-range cash forecasting and variance analysis in a capital-intensive or high-burn environment

• Experience in multi-entity, multi-currency groups; comfort with intercompany flows and FX in forecasting

• Strong grasp of accrual accounting mechanics: able to build a three-statement model that ties to the trial balance and explain timing versus rate versus volume variances

• Advanced Excel; experience with leading ERPs is strongly preferred

• Comfort with ambiguity and zero-to-one process building; you write clearly and present numbers that go to the board without rework

Nice to Have

• Data center, infrastructure, energy, or other project-finance-heavy sector experience

• Exposure to SOX 404 environments or IPO/listing readiness

• Familiarity with ASC 842, ASC 718, or capitalization of infrastructure assets

• Experience forecasting in pre-revenue or early-revenue companies

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What We Offer

At Volta, we believe people do their best work when they feel supported, trusted and able to grow. We're building a company where you can make an impact, keep a healthy balance between work and life, and build a career you're proud of.
As a global team, we do our best to provide great benefits wherever you're based. While some benefits vary by country due to local regulations, we believe looking after our people is simply the right thing to do.

• Competitive salary based on the work you do here, not your previous salary

• Equity in Volta, giving you the opportunity to share in the company's long-term success

• Retirement/pension contributions

• Comprehensive health, wellbeing and insurance benefits

• Generous number of vacation days each year

Additional Information

Equal Opportunity

Volta is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and make employment decisions based on skills, qualifications, experience and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic.

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