Senior FP&A Analyst

Aptia Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Aptia Group is seeking a commercially minded Senior FP&A Analyst to join our Finance team in a hybrid role based in London. You will partner with Technology Finance and senior leaders to translate financial data into actionable insights, supporting strategic decisions across Technology and Transformation.

The role emphasizes budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling and performance analysis, with exposure to planning tools and business cases.

Qualifications

• Qualified FP&A professional with strong budgeting and forecasting experience.
• Able to build and maintain financial models supporting strategic initiatives.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to communicate insights to non-finance stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support annual budget, quarterly forecasts and long-range planning for Technology.
• Deliver monthly performance reporting with trends, risks and opportunities.
• Build and maintain financial models for business cases and investments.
• Analyse operating and project spend to ensure cost control and financial discipline.
• Partner with Technology leaders to interpret financial performance.

Skills

FP&A

Budgeting

Forecasting

Financial analysis

Stakeholder management

Excel

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent

Tools

Power BI

Adaptive Planning

Anaplan

TM1

Job description

Aptia are seeking a commercially minded Senior FP&A Analyst to join our Finance team and play a key role supporting our Technology and Transformation functions.

This is an exciting opportunity for a high-calibre FP&A professional who enjoys partnering with senior stakeholders, translating financial data into meaningful insight, and supporting strategic decision-making. Whether your background is in technology, operations, shared services, professional services or another fast-paced environment, we're interested in individuals who can bring strong analytical capability, curiosity and commercial acumen.

Working closely with the Technology Finance Business Partner and senior Technology leaders, you'll help drive planning, forecasting, financial performance and investment decision-making across a significant area of the business.

This is a hybrid role aligned to our London office 3-4 days per week (as required).

What you'll be doing:

As Senior FP&A Analyst, you'll provide the financial insight and analysis that enables effective decision-making across Technology and Transformation.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the annual budget, quarterly forecasting and long-range planning processes for Technology function.
• Delivering insightful monthly performance reporting, identifying trends, risks and opportunities.
• Building and maintaining financial models to support strategic initiatives, investment decisions and business cases.
• Analysing operating and project expenditure to ensure effective cost management and financial control.
• Partnering with Technology leaders to understand financial performance and support informed decision-making.
• Tracking strategic investment and transformation programme spend against approved business cases.
• Supporting month-end activities, variance analysis and management reporting.
• Developing reporting and dashboards that improve visibility of costs, performance and value delivery.
• Identifying opportunities to improve processes, reporting and the quality of financial insight.
• Supporting the Technology Finance Business Partner on strategic projects and ad-hoc commercial analysis.

What we're looking for:

We’re looking for an ambitious FP&A professional who combines strong technical skills with the confidence to build relationships and challenge constructively.

Professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)

Experience in FP&A, commercial finance, financial analysis or business partnering roles.

Experience in a carve-out, PE-backed, or high-change environment is highly desirable.

Strong budgeting, forecasting and financial modelling experience.

Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

The ability to interpret complex data and communicate key insights clearly to non-finance stakeholders.

Experience producing management reporting and performance analysis.

Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Advanced Excel skills and experience working with planning and reporting tools.

A proactive mindset with a focus on continuous improvement.

Experience supporting Technology, IT, Digital, Transformation or Shared Services functions.

Exposure to technology investment appraisal, project finance or business case development.

Experience with Power BI, Adaptive Planning, Anaplan, TM1 or similar planning and reporting tools.