Head of FP&A

Pure Search; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Pure Search is seeking an FP&A Lead to report to the CFO, owning planning processes, forecasting, and financial analysis across the business. You will build multi-scenario models, partner with engineering and operations, and drive automation for scalable planning as the company grows.

You’ll provide clear insights to senior leaders, deliver board-ready reporting, and help shape strategic decisions with precise financial inputs.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in FP&A, finance business partnering, or strategic finance roles.
• Strong modelling and analytical skills, with the ability to build clean, scalable, and insightful models.
• Experience in hardware, manufacturing, robotics, or capital-intensive businesses is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills – you can distil complexity and frame trade-offs clearly for senior stakeholders.
• Self-starter with a builder’s mindset – comfortable designing processes from scratch in a fast-paced environment.
• Deep understanding of cost structures, capital planning, and cash flow modelling.

Responsibilities

• Lead the company’s annual budgeting and quarterly reforecasting processes.
• Develop and maintain multi-scenario financial models that support strategic and operational decision-making.
• Partner with business functions to build accurate, data-driven plans across headcount, OPEX, CAPEX, and project spend.
• Provide visibility on burn, run rate, variance to plan, and budget utilisation across the company.
• Deliver regular financial reporting and commentary for the leadership team and board.
• Develop dashboards and tools to improve transparency and accountability across teams.

Skills

Financial modelling

FP&A

Budgeting

Dashboards

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Job description

About the Role

As FP&A Lead, you’ll report to the CFO and be responsible for developing, maintaining, and improving our financial planning processes, tools, and outputs. You will drive the company-wide planning rhythm, support decision-making with high-quality forecasts and analysis, and act as a thought partner to functional leads.

This role requires a strong analytical mind, a pragmatic approach to tooling and automation, and the ability to translate complex data into actionable business insight. You’ll also play a key role in helping the company scale its financial maturity—ensuring we operate with clarity, discipline, and flexibility as we grow.

What You’ll Do

• Planning & Forecasting
• Lead the company’s annual budget and quarterly reforecasting processes
• Develop and maintain multi-scenario financial models that support strategic and operational decision-making
• Partner with business functions to build accurate, data-driven plans across headcount, OPEX, CAPEX, and project spend
• Provide visibility on burn, run rate, variance to plan, and budget utilisation across the company
• Performance Management & Reporting
• Deliver regular financial reporting and commentary for the leadership team and board
• Monitor financial KPIs across functions and flag emerging risks or opportunities
• Work closely with the Head of Finance to track and report company performance against long-range plans
• Develop dashboards and tools to improve transparency and accountability across teams
• Business Partnership
• Act as a trusted finance partner to engineering, operations, and go-to-market leads
• Support project planning, resource allocation, and vendor negotiations with relevant financial inputs
• Drive proactive conversations around spend optimisation, trade-offs, and investment returns
• Support commercial teams with pricing, margin, and cost modelling
• Tooling, Process & Systems
• Design and implement scalable planning workflows, templates, and financial systems
• Help evaluate and deploy FP&A tools
• Drive automation and integration across finance and operational data sources
• Establish documentation and governance around planning inputs, assumptions, and outputs

We’re Looking For:

• 6+ years of experience in FP&A, finance business partnering, or strategic finance roles
• Strong modelling and analytical skills, with the ability to build clean, scalable, and insightful models
• Experience in hardware, manufacturing, robotics, or capital-intensive businesses is a plus
• Excellent communication skills – you can distil complexity and frame trade-offs clearly for senior stakeholders
• Self-starter with a builder’s mindset – comfortable designing processes from scratch in a fast-paced environment
• Deep understanding of cost structures, capital planning, and cash flow modelling

Bonus Points

• Prior experience supporting engineering, manufacturing, or supply chain organisations
• Familiarity with finance systems and data tooling (e.g. NetSuite, Looker, Tableau, Power BI)
• Experience preparing board-level reporting or working in investor-backed companies
• Exposure to unit economics, pricing models, and product lifecycle financials