FP&A Manager

This is a newly created role as a FP&A Manager for a Global organisation with a major office in Cardiff.

Client Details

A global organisation with sites across 3 major international locations.

The business has ambitious plans and this newly created role will manage the budget for over £130m in IT spend

Description

This is a newly created role within a global organisation where you will be able to put your own stamp on the role.

As the FP&A Manager you will be responsible for a BAU budget of c£30m annually and lead on Digital Transformation projects totaling over £100m.

The FP&A Manager will act as the lead finance business partner to the Technology & Transformation leadership team, working closely with senior executives to provide strategic financial guidance and oversight. The role will support the planning, forecasting, and performance management of a portfolio of complex, multi-year programmes and business transformation initiatives. Through robust financial analysis, commercial insight, and forward-looking forecasting, the FP&A Manager will help shape investment decisions, optimise resource allocation, and ensure programme delivery achieves its intended business outcomes.

• Act as the lead finance business partner to a major business transformation function, providing strategic financial insight to support investment decisions, programme prioritisation, and long-term value creation.
• Lead financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting activities for a portfolio of significant, multi-year strategic initiatives, ensuring resource requirements and funding assumptions are robust, transparent, and aligned with organisational objectives.
• Maintain financial oversight of complex transformation programmes, monitoring expenditure, risks, and expected benefits to ensure projects remain financially viable and deliver anticipated outcomes.
• Collaborate with programme and operational leaders to assess the financial implications of project plans, scope adjustments, delivery timelines, and investment decisions, ensuring these are accurately reflected within financial forecasts.
• Establish and maintain strong financial governance frameworks, ensuring effective cost control, proactive risk identification, and timely intervention where variances arise.
• Develop financial models, business cases, and scenario analyses to support strategic decision-making, enabling senior stakeholders to evaluate alternative investment and delivery options.
• Prepare and present financial performance updates, investment appraisals, and forecasting insights to executive leadership, supporting informed decision-making and effective governance.
• Partner with finance, programme management, and people teams to ensure accurate project accounting, resource tracking, and financial reporting, including the appropriate treatment of capital and operational expenditure.
• Provide constructive challenge and commercial insight within investment and governance discussions, ensuring financial risks, assumptions, dependencies, and value drivers are clearly understood.
• Translate complex financial information into clear, actionable recommendations for senior leaders, supporting timely and commercially informed decision-making.
• Ensure alignment between programme financials and wider corporate planning cycles, including annual budgets, periodic forecasts, and long-range strategic plans.
• Drive continuous improvement in financial planning and project reporting processes, enhancing forecasting accuracy, cost transparency, and the quality of management information available to stakeholders.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and oversight to FP&A team members supporting strategic programmes, ensuring financial outputs are accurate, insightful, and aligned with business needs.

Profile

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related discipline.
• Professionally qualified accountant or finance professional (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA, or equivalent). Additional qualifications in FP&A, corporate finance, or business administration would be advantageous.
• Extensive experience within Financial Planning & Analysis, commercial finance, strategic finance, or business partnering environments.
• Demonstrable experience supporting significant capital investments, transformation programmes, change initiatives, or large-scale business projects.
• Strong track record of influencing and partnering with senior executives and leadership teams.
• Experience operating within complex, multi-stakeholder, matrix, or international organisations is desirable.
• Background supporting project-based, technology-enabled, operational improvement, or transformation-focused environments would be advantageous.
• Strong understanding of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and performance management processes.
• Excellent commercial acumen with proven experience evaluating investments, business cases, and strategic opportunities.
• Knowledge of programme, project, or portfolio financial management principles.
• Sound understanding of financial governance, controls, risk management, and decision-support frameworks.
• Ability to interpret financial performance within a broader strategic and operational business context.
• Familiarity with emerging technologies, automation, analytics, or AI-enabled processes and their impact on business and finance operations.
• Advanced financial modelling, forecasting, and scenario-planning capabilities.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and quantitative skills with a high level of attention to detail.
• Ability to synthesise complex financial and operational information into clear, concise insights for senior stakeholders.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and experience using ERP systems, planning tools, reporting platforms, and financial management systems.
• Experience working with large, complex datasets and multiple business performance drivers to support strategic decision-making.

Job Offer

Salary up to £75,000 per annum

10% pension contributions

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

life assurance

1 days a week in Cardiff, 4 days WHF.

travel to international sites 1x per 1/4