FP&A Manager — 9 Month Maternity Cover

Babble Cloud; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company Pension

22 days holiday

Life Assurance 4x salary

Health Insurance

Health Cash Plan

Bike to Work

Season Ticket Loan

Job summary

Babble is seeking a FP&A Manager on a maternity cover basis to lead the planning, forecasting and management reporting cycle. You will partner with the CFO and executive team, owning budgeting, cash flow, and covenant reporting across a multi-entity group.

You will develop the group planning model, provide actionable insight on pricing and cost-to-serve, and report recurring revenue metrics. Strong Excel, modelling and planning experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with 3+ years post-qualification in FP&A or commercial finance.
• Ownership of a full budget and rolling forecast cycle in a multi-entity group.
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling.
• Recurring revenue or subscription business experience – telecoms, SaaS, or managed services.
• Ability to onboard quickly in an unfamiliar environment; short handover period.
• A partnering mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Finance Business Partnering Function and own Babble’s planning, forecasting and management reporting cycle.
• Own the annual budget and rolling reforecast, including P&L, cash flow and covenant reporting.
• Produce monthly management reporting pack and board commentary with variance analysis.
• Develop and maintain the group planning model (revenue, gross margin, cost, headcount).
• Partner with Sales, Operations and Executive leadership on performance, pricing and cost-to-serve.
• Model and report recurring revenue metrics (MRR, churn, ARPU, NRR, margins by product).

Skills

Advanced Excel

Financial modelling

Partnership mindset

FP&A experience

Education

Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)

Tools

Workday Adaptive Planning

Anaplan

Pigment

Board

Oracle EPM

Power BI

Alteryx

Job description

Babble is a Customer Experience-led growth business. As the ultimate Trusted Advisor for cloud-based technologies, we specialize in empowering businesses with the best solutions from the world's leading providers.

We are specialists in:

• Microsoft Modern Work
• Cybersecurity
• Mobile Solutions
• Communications & Connectivity

With thousands of customers, we're just scratching the surface of our potential. Many of our clients currently benefit from one or two of our technologies, presenting an incredible opportunity to introduce them to our full suite of market-leading solutions.

Join us on this exciting journey and let's achieve greatness together!

Join Our Dynamic Team as a FP&A Manager — Maternity Cover!

Are you passionate about telecoms? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment? At Babble, we’re on a mission to beourcustomer’smosttrustedadvisorforcloud-basedtechnologies. We’re looking for passionate and talented individuals to join our dynamic team. If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!

What will you be doing?

Lead the Finance Business Partnering Function and to own Babble’s planning, forecasting and management reporting cycle, providing the CFO, executive team, investors and the wider business with the analysis and actionable insight behind commercial performance

Accountabilities and Deliverables:

• Own the annual budget and rolling reforecast, covering profit and loss, cash flow and covenant or bank reporting.
• Produce the monthly management reporting pack and board pack commentary, including variance analysis against budget and prior year.
• Maintain and develop the group planning model, including revenue, gross margin, cost and headcount forecasting.
• Business partner with Sales, Operations and Executive leadership on performance, pricing and cost-to-serve.
• Model and report recurring revenue metrics: monthly and annual recurring revenue, churn, ARPU, net revenue retention and margin by product line.

Strongly desirable

• Hands-on Workday Adaptive Planning as a model user, building sheets, reports and dashboards.
• Experience within a private equity-backed or acquisitive group, including post-acquisition integration reporting.
• Exposure to an alternative planning platform — Anaplan, Pigment, Board or Oracle EPM — as a proxy for Adaptive aptitude.
• Alteryx, Power BI or an equivalent visualisation tool.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with three or more years post-qualification in FP&A or commercial finance.
• Demonstrable ownership of a full budget and reforecast cycle within a multi-entity group.
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling
• Recurring revenue or subscription business experience - telecoms, SaaS, or managed services.
• Evidence of becoming productive quickly in an unfamiliar environment; this role has a short handover period.
• A partnering mindset

Additional Information

Why work for Babble?

• Company Pension
• 22 days holiday Balance + UK Bank Holidays - with increased annual leave based on length of service
• Life Assurance – 4x Annual Salary
• Optional Health Insurance – Bupa
• Optional Health Cash Plan – Health Shield
• £1,000 payment after 10 years service
• Bike to Work Scheme
• Season Ticket Commuter Loan
• Charities Trust – Donations to charities pre tax
• Annual Company Celebrations

Hybrid-Working Policy

You will be contracted to work from the office however, Babble operates a Hybrid Working Policy whereby you will be required to be in the office on company anchor days (Monday, Tuesday and Thursday) and will be able to work from home on Wednesday and Friday. Unless your role has different requirements.

The recruitment journey

We want to fill this role quickly, but we want to get the right person. The recruitment process will consist of a screening call. If you proceed past this then you will have an interviewand possibly a follow up interview and competency testing depending on the role requirements.