Senior FP&A Manager

Cedar; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 77,000 - 94,000; Full time

Job summary

Cedar, a private equity-backed technology business, is seeking a Senior FP&A Manager in Central London on a hybrid model (3 days in the office). The role reports to the Commercial Finance Director and leads a small FP&A team to deliver robust planning, analytics and executive-ready decks.

You will build and maintain financial models, provide insights to the CFO/CEO/Board, drive budgeting and forecasting, and support strategic initiatives including capital allocation and growth investments.

Qualifications

• Experience in FP&A and financial planning.
• Ability to build and interpret financial models (3-statement, DCF, IRR, NPV).
• Experience supporting corporate strategy initiatives including M&A evaluations and integration modelling.

Responsibilities

• Analyse and convey insights to CFO/CEO/Board.
• Champion FP&A process improvements, planning tools, automation and data quality.
• Support M&A evaluations, integration modelling and synergy tracking.

Job description

Senior FP&A Manager

Central London / Hybrid 3 days

Circa £85,000 + bonus + benefits

PE-backed Technology

This Private Equity-backed technology disruptor has proved to be immensely popular across the investor community, experiencing yet another successful year of growth through both organic and acquisitive expansion.

With further exciting expansion plans in place, including additional acquisitions this exciting and fast paced business is developing at an exhilarating rate.

Building on its significant success, this well-funded and highly entrepreneurial business is now seeking to recruit a dynamic Senior FP&A Manager.

Reporting to the Commercial Finance Director and leading a small team, the role includes:

• Analysis and insight generation to convey key messages, insights, risks and opportunities for the CFO, CEO, and Board.
• Championing continuous improvement in FP&A processes, planning tools, automation, and data quality.
• Supporting corporate strategy initiatives such as M&A evaluations, integration modelling, and synergy tracking.
• Engaging in capital allocation decision support (capex, investments, portfolio analysis).
• Executing robust financial planning
• Providing insight and commentary on possible risks and opportunities
• Delivering data analytics
• Deck and dashboard creation for Exec-level consumption

• Build and maintain financial models (i.e. 3-statement, DCF, IRR, NPV etc)
• Business case and decision support for key initiatives and sales opportunities, ensuring alignment with overall strategic objectives.
• Providing insight, analysis and recommendations in relation to growth assessment and improvement, financial sustainability and investment cases.
• Ownership of KPIs, assuring the data quality and pertinence of metrics used, and using a combination of financial and non-financial data to provide quality insight that can be acted upon.
• Lead on the budgeting and forecasting processes
• Analysis and reporting for Investors
• Coaching and developing the small FP&A team, ensuring clarity of purpose, development plans are in place, and a collaborative and supportive team environment is sustained

The successful candidate will be an exceptionally credible finance professional with an impressive background of driving the FP&A agenda and developing a commercially oriented FP&A environment.

With impressive levels of gravitas, drive and intellectual horsepower, you will have demonstrable experience in influencing senior commercial stakeholders, having confidently engaged in and led business-critical discussions.

Ideally, though not essential, you will be a Chartered accountant and have had exposure to working within a PE-backed business and/or the Infrastructure or Technology sector.

Personality and behaviours are a key element for the successful candidate. Business acumen, first-class communication skills, an innately curious mindset, and confidence in your ability are prerequisites for success in this exciting and ambitious business.