FP&A Specialist - Budget Planning

Mercor; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is building a high-quality library of corporate FP&A work products. You will complete self-contained planning exercises from mock files and produce deliverables graded against a rubric.

You will build bottoms-up annual budgets, multi-year plans, rolling reforecasts, and headcount/capex plans, with consolidation, approvals and KPI tracking. You’ll deliver monthly management packs with variance commentary and profitability analyses for product, customer, or segment levels.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in FP&A at an operating company owning a plan or a reforecast cycle.
• Advanced Excel modeling with the judgment to explain a variance, not just calculate it.

Responsibilities

• Build bottoms-up annual budgets and multi-year long-range plans with consolidation and approval paths.
• Produce rolling reforecasts of P&L, cash flow and KPIs reflecting actuals and updated drivers.
• Build headcount and capital expenditure plans with hiring pacing, project approvals, payback and prioritization.
• Produce monthly management reporting packs with variance commentary, and product, customer or segment profitability analysis with cost allocation methodology.
• Forecast revenue from bookings, pipeline coverage and demand signals, and document model drivers and assumptions.

Skills

Advanced Excel modeling

Variance analysis

Forecasting

Tools

Anaplan

Adaptive

Pigment

Job description

About the work

We're building a high-quality library of corporate FP&A work products. You'll complete self-contained planning exercises from mock files (actuals, driver schedules, department budgets) and produce the deliverable for each, graded against a rubric.

What you'll do

• Build bottoms-up annual budgets and multi-year long-range plans with consolidation and approval paths.
• Produce rolling reforecasts of P&L, cash flow and KPIs reflecting actuals and updated drivers.
• Build headcount and capital expenditure plans with hiring pacing, project approvals, payback and prioritization.
• Produce monthly management reporting packs with variance commentary, and product, customer or segment profitability analysis with cost allocation methodology.
• Forecast revenue from bookings, pipeline coverage and demand signals, and document model drivers and assumptions.

You're a fit if you have

• 4+ years in FP&A at an operating company, owning a plan or a reforecast cycle.
• Advanced Excel modeling and the judgment to explain a variance, not just calculate it.

Nice to have

• Finance business partnering or commercial finance experience; planning systems such as Anaplan, Adaptive or Pigment.

Assessment

A rolling reforecast from mock actuals and drivers; a management reporting pack with variance commentary; a headcount and capital expenditure plan.

Note

we're looking for planning and forecasting ownership, not month-end close or controllership.