FP&A Manager

Carbon3ai Limited.; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An emerging AI infrastructure start-up in the United Kingdom is seeking a FP&A Manager to own financial planning, forecasting, and strategic analysis. You will develop budgets, conduct financial modelling, and collaborate with various teams on site feasibility and hardware lifecycle planning. The role provides a competitive compensation package with hybrid work flexibility and offers the opportunity to influence financial strategies in a cutting-edge technology sector.

Benefits

Competitive compensation package

Hybrid/remote flexibility

Opportunity to shape financial strategy

Qualifications

• Proven financial modelling knowledge.
• Expertise in technical accounting to support audit processes.
• FP&A experience in related sectors like data centres or telecoms is desired.

Responsibilities

• Lead budgeting, rolling forecasts, and long-range modelling.
• Build financial models for capex, opex, and ROI.
• Prepare financial materials for fundraising and investor updates.

Skills

Financial modelling

Communication skills

Business partnering

Analytical thinking

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualification or equivalent

Job description

We are an emerging AI infrastructure start‑up building next‑generation data centres and high‑performance compute environments to power AI, LLM training, and cloud‑scale workloads, powered by renewable energy, rooted in sovereign capability, and designed to give enterprises and innovators the compute they need. Backed by leading investors, we are rapidly expanding our site development pipeline, engineering capabilities, and commercial partnerships.

As FP&A Manager, you will own financial planning, forecasting, and strategic analysis across our AI and data centre portfolio. You will also assess project viability, analyse capex requirements, model long‑term returns, and provide insights that shape our expansion roadmap as well as dealing with a number of ad 'hoc requests as we gear up our operations and activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead budgeting, rolling forecasts, cash planning, and long‑range modelling.
• Build capex, opex, utilisation, and ROI/IRR models.
• Prepare monthly reporting packs and KPI dashboards.
• Partner with Engineering, Operations, Real Estate, and Commercial teams.
• Support site feasibility, power procurement, and hardware lifecycle planning.
• Prepare financial materials for fundraising and investor updates.
• Improve FP&A tools, dashboards, and reporting processes.

Skills & Experience Required

• ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualification or equivalent.
• Expertise in technical accounting as you will need to support the financial accounting team and the audit process.
• Proven financial modelling knowledge.
• Great communication and previous business partnering proficiency.
• Understanding of data centre economics and GPU/compute economics - desired.
• FP&A experience in infrastructure, data centres, energy, telecoms, or high‑capex tech - desired

Personal Attributes

• Highly analytical and commercially minded.
• Comfortable operating in a fast‑paced start‑up.
• Detail‑oriented with strong strategic thinking.
• Able to collaborate effectively with technical teams.
• Self‑starter, motivated, keen to learn and develop

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation package
• Hybrid/remote flexibility.
• Opportunity to shape financial strategy in a frontier technology sector.
• Impactful role with significant exposure to leadership.