Senior FP&A Leader: Strategic Finance & Insights

Content Guru Limited; Bracknell; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Content Guru Limited, based at our head office in Bracknell, Berkshire, seeks a Senior Financial Planning and Reporting Analyst to lead FP&A activities and deliver financial insight for strategic decisions.

Reporting to the CFO, you will own budgeting, forecasting, management reporting and commercial analysis across the group, partnering with stakeholders across functions and locations to drive continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA), or equivalent.
• Experience in Financial Planning & Analysis, Commercial Finance or Management Reporting.
• Experience leading budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Advanced Excel modelling; strong Power BI capability.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Group's budgeting and forecasting activities, ensuring robust financial planning processes that support business growth.
• Develop financial models and scenario analysis to support commercial and strategic decision-making.
• Monitor financial performance against budgets and forecasts, identifying key risks, opportunities and areas for improvement.
• Support the continued development of the Group's FP&A capability and planning processes.
• Lead the production and continual improvement of management reporting across the Group.
• Prepare reporting and analysis for Executive Leadership and Board-level discussions.
• Produce commercially focused financial commentary that explains business performance and key financial drivers.
• Ensure reporting is accurate, insightful and delivered to agreed deadlines.
• Develop and maintain complex Excel models and Power BI dashboards.
• Drive improvements to reporting quality, automation and analytical capability across the Finance function.
• Maintain robust governance and consistency across financial models and reporting processes.
• Support Finance improvement projects and the implementation of new reporting systems and technologies.
• Provide financial oversight of Sales Incentive Plan (SIPP) reporting and governance.
• Produce commercial analysis to support sales performance and wider business growth.
• Partner with Sales, Commercial and Operational teams to support business cases, investment decisions and strategic initiatives.
• Provide trusted financial insight to support informed decision-making across the business.
• Provide day-to-day operational leadership across the FP&A function.
• Coordinate workloads and maintain high standards of reporting quality and consistency.
• Coach, mentor and support colleagues, including Financial Planning and Reporting Analysts where applicable.
• Drive continuous improvement across the FP&A function and support its ongoing growth and development.

Skills

FP&A

Budgeting & Forecasting

Management Reporting

Financial Modelling

Power BI

Excel modelling

Strategic analysis

Stakeholder Management

Leadership

Team coaching

Education

Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)

Tools

Power BI

Excel

Job description

Content Guru Limited, based at our head office in Bracknell, Berkshire, seeks a Senior Financial Planning and Reporting Analyst to lead FP&A activities and deliver financial insight for strategic decisions.

Reporting to the CFO, you will own budgeting, forecasting, management reporting and commercial analysis across the group, partnering with stakeholders across functions and locations to drive continuous improvement.