FP&A Partner

e.surv Chartered Surveyors; Kettering; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car option

Private healthcare

Pension top-ups

Job summary

e.surv Chartered Surveyors is seeking an FP&A Partner in Kettering, UK. The role focuses on delivering high-quality financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and strategic insights to support decision-making across the business.

You will partner with senior leaders to assess performance, model scenarios, and provide actionable commentary that drives improvement and growth. Strong communication and stakeholder management are essential in this role.

Qualifications

• Identify trends and insights from financial and operational data for non-financial stakeholders.
• Develop Long-Range Plans, budgets, forecasts, and performance reviews.
• Provide variance analysis and actionable commentary.
• Create engaging presentations to communicate business performance.
• Build financial models for scenario planning.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality performance insight using KPI and financial data.
• Produce variance analysis with trends and root causes.
• Develop scenario models for market assumptions and profitability outcomes.
• Act as trusted Finance Partner providing commercial analysis and recommendations.
• Build robust financial models for option evaluation.
• Monitor market trends and assess impact on forecasts.
• Model strategic initiatives like market entry/exit, acquisitions, growth.
• Provide ad-hoc analysis and insights to support decisions.
• Translate financial data into narratives to influence actions.
• Support end-to-end planning including long-range, annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, rolling forecasts.

Skills

Excel

Power BI

Financial analysis

Stakeholder management

Forecasting

Education

Qualified Accountant or finalist (CIMA, ACCA, ACA)

Tools

Forecasting tools

Presentation software

Reporting software

Job description

FP&A Partner - Kettering, UK

Kettering, UK Permanent Full-Time

The opportunity

Financial Planning & Analysis Partner

Trading since 1989, e.surv Chartered Surveyors is the UK's number one residential surveyor and the largest provider of property risk expertise and residential surveying services. To put it into numbers, we complete more than one property inspection every 12 seconds and employ over 600 surveyors from Land’s End to John O’Groats and Northern Ireland. This gives us the flexibility to offer nationwide coverage combined with invaluable local knowledge.

We're part of the LSL Property Services Group PLC, which includes household names Your Move and Reeds Rains as well as the mortgage network PRIMIS. We work with lenders, intermediaries, social housing entities and estate agents in addition to private customers

This role is focused on delivering high-quality financial analysis, insight, and performance reporting to support strategic decision-making across esurv.

The successful candidate will partner with business leaders to analyse financial and operational performance, identify trends and risks, and provide meaningful commentary and recommendations that drive business improvement. They will play a key role in budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and scenario modelling, helping the organisation make informed commercial decisions and achieve its strategic objectives.

Key Responsibilities

Analysis & Performance Optimisation

• Deliver high-quality performance insight and analytics using KPI and financial performance data.
• Produce variance analysis, identify trends and root causes, and provide clear, actionable commentary.
• Develop scenario models to assess market assumptions, business performance, and potential profit outcomes.
• Act as a trusted Finance Business Partner, providing commercial analysis and recommendations to support decision-making.
• Build robust financial models that enable leaders to evaluate options and make informed decisions quickly.

Strategic Analysis

• Monitor market, customer, and competitor trends, assessing their impact on business performance and future forecasts.
• Model strategic initiatives including market entry, market exit, acquisitions, and organic growth opportunities.
• Provide ad-hoc commercial analysis and business insights to support strategic decision-making.
• Translate complex financial data into compelling narratives that influence business actions.

Planning & Forecasting

• Support the end-to-end planning cycle, including:
  • Long-range planning
  • Annual budgeting
  • Quarterly forecasting
  • Rolling forecasts
• Ensure planning assumptions are robust, accurate, and consistently applied across the business.
• Work with stakeholders to challenge assumptions and improve forecast accuracy.
• Support the development of financial plans aligned to business strategy and growth objectives.

Essential Knowledge and Expertise :-

• Proven ability to identify trends, patterns, and relationships within financial and operational data, translating complex analysis into clear, actionable insights for non-financial stakeholders.
• Experience developing and presenting Long-Range Plans, annual budgets, forecasts, and business performance reviews.
• Strong track record in performance analysis, variance reporting, and commentary, with the ability to understand the drivers behind results and their impact on the wider business.
• Ability to create engaging and visually compelling presentations that bring business performance, strategy, and financial plans to life through insightful storytelling and narrative.
• Experience building financial models and conducting scenario planning to support strategic decision-making.
• Excellent communication skills with the confidence to present findings and recommendations to a range of stakeholders.
• Advanced technical skills, including:
  • Excel
  • Power BI
  • Financial planning and forecasting tools
  • Presentation and reporting software
• High attention to detail with a commitment to delivering accurate, high-quality work in fast-paced environments.
• Strong relationship-building and collaboration skills, with the ability to partner effectively across multiple functions, teams, and levels of seniority.
• A proactive and commercially curious mindset, focused on turning insight into action and improving business performance.

Essential E xperience & Qualifications :

• Qualified Accountant or finalist (CIMA, ACCA, ACA) with experience in FP&A and/or Commercial Finance

Desirable

• Experience of working in large/corporate organisations with matrix reporting
• Professional Services industry experience
• Experience of working with FP&A systems

In your Application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (for example, she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs)

e.surv is an equal opportunity and Disability Confident employer, dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from people of all abilities and backgrounds, and we do not discriminate based on disability or individual needs. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.

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PRE EMPLOYMENT SCREENING - All of our employees have to pass a Criminal Records Disclosure and Credit Referencing Process in order to work with our lender clients, if you are unsure on this, ask the team and we'll be happy to explain the process.

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What’s on offer?

A Rewarding Package

Market-leading salary & generous incentive package

Company Car Offering

Car allowance or company car options from a range of premium brands

Diverse and Consistent Workload

A great variety of work in every postcode

Work From Anywhere

Home-based working with our cutting-edge iPad technology

Tools for Success

We’ll provide you with everything you need and more to support your activities

Flexible Benefits

Private healthcare, pension scheme top ups, retail vouchers, Income Protection and Critical Illness cover

Invest in Your Growth

Keep your professional development on track with paid RICS membership and fully covered CPD requirements

Share Our Success

Become a true partner in our growth with access to SAYE and BAYE share investment plans

Investing in you

Our people are at the core of everything we do. We invest to provide efficiencies, enabling our surveyors to spend more time sharing their expert advice. We make a conscious effort for continuous growth and development of our people.

Pamela Cherry If you want to be part of a progressive company with a strong focus on being the trusted market leader, but that still listens to its employees, look no further.
Andrew Furness I would look no further than the e.surv graduate programme if you are serious about becoming a residential surveyor
(AssocRICS Surveyors, e.surv) Pamela Cherry If you want to be part of a progressive company with a strong focus on being the trusted market leader, but that still listens to its employees, look no further.
Andrew Furness I would look no further than the e.surv graduate programme if you are serious about becoming a residential surveyor
(AssocRICS Surveyors, e.surv) Pamela Cherry If you want to be part of a progressive company with a strong focus on being the trusted market leader, but that still listens to its employees, look no further.

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