Senior Lead FP & A Accountant

Taylor James Resourcing; City Of London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A global finance firm based in London is seeking an FP&A Accountant to lead financial reporting and forecasting. This office-based role requires a strong finance background, with relevant qualifications and experience in FP&A. The successful candidate will enhance reporting using Power BI and support strategic projects. Strong interpersonal skills and familiarity with financial systems, especially Workday, are crucial for success in this position.

Qualifications

• Professional finance qualification (CPA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Experience in FP&A, commercial finance or management reporting roles.
• Understanding of financial principles, budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis.

Responsibilities

• Build reporting tools combining ERP data and bespoke platforms.
• Design and implement a forecasting framework across divisions.
• Build relationships with divisional MDs to support decision making.
• Identify opportunities to leverage Workday for financial analysis.
• Support M&A activity or new business initiatives.

Skills

Finance qualification (CPA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Experience in FP&A

Understanding of financial principles

Experience with large datasets

Interpersonal skills

Familiarity with Workday

Education

Professional finance qualification

Tools

Power BI

Workday

Job description

Job Details

• Date: 26 Aug 2025
• Sector: FINANCE / ACCOUNTING
• Type: Permanent
• Location: London
• Salary: £110000 - 120000 per annum
• Email: [e-mail]
• Ref: db43543525

About the Role

We are looking for a commercially minded and analytically driven FP&A Accountant to join a Global Broking finance team. Based at their City of London head office, this role offers an opportunity to shape and elevate their financial reporting, forecasting, and commercial insight capability. This is an office based initially.

Key Qualifications

• Professional finance qualification (CPA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Experience in FP&A, commercial finance or management reporting roles.
• Solid understanding of financial principles, budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis.
• Experience working with large datasets, ideally in environments with multiple source systems.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work with non-financial stakeholders.
• It is highly preferred you have worked within a trading, brokerage or market driven business (e.g. shipping, commodities, financial services).
• Familiarity with Workday.
• Exposure to integrating financial and operational data for insight.
• Experience setting up a forecasting framework from scratch.

What you’ll be doing

• Reporting and insight:
  • Build reporting tools that combine ERP data (Workday), billing systems and bespoke broking platforms to generate commercial insight.
  • Enhance and automate monthly reporting using Power BI, transitioning from Excel-based outputs to dynamic dashboards.
  • Partner with divisional heads and business development teams to analyse and explain key business drivers, trends and performance.
• Forecasting and planning:
  • Designing and implement a fit-for-purpose forecasting framework across broking divisions.
  • Support the annual budgeting cycle and any reforecasting processes, incorporating market trends and broker-level activity where relevant.
  • Develop models and structures to improve visibility of future performance, despite market variability.
• Business partnering:
  • Build strong relationships with divisional MDs, analysts and operators to support forward-looking decision making.
  • Act as a financial advisor to the business, challenging assumptions and supporting commercial initiatives with robust analysis.
  • Collaborate with embedded market analysts to combine internal and external intelligence.
• Systems and process improvement:
  • Identify opportunities to better leverage Workday and other internal tools for data extraction and financial analysis.
  • Support wider finance transformation and data governance initiatives.
  • Contribute to the professionalisation of financial processes and controls in a rapidly evolving commercial environment.
• Strategic projects and expansion:
  • Support M&A activity or new business initiatives.
  • Report and evaluate on strategic or ad-hoc projects related to regional growth, restructuring or system upgrades.