FP&A Director

This is a fantastic opportunity for an FP&A professional to join the business services industry in a permanent FP&A Director role based in Cheshire. The position focuses on providing strategic financial planning and analysis to support the organisation's ambitious growth objectives.

Client Details

Our client has been on an impressive growth journey over a multi-year period, with strong organic growth and impressive M&A activity fuelled by private equity investment. Whilst now operating on a global scale, they retain their entrepreneurial spirit.

Description

The FP&A Director will lead all financial planning, analysis, forecasting, and performance management across the for UK and Europe, as well as other regions. This is a highly commercial and strategically critical role, acting as the senior finance partner to regional leadership and driving insight-led decision making across a growing services business.

You will oversee a team of business partners and analysts, strengthening the FP&A capability across multiple countries, and leading the implementation of a new planning and forecasting tool to modernise how the division manages its performance.

Key responsibilities include:

Financial Planning & Analysis

· Own the full FP&A cycle for the business, including budgets, forecasts, long-range plans, and monthly performance reviews.

· Lead the successful deployment, adoption, and ongoing optimisation of a new planning tool, improving data quality, forecasting accuracy, and process efficiency.

· Deliver high-quality analysis of revenue, margin, churn, product lifecycle, and operational cost drivers across the full product portfolio.

· Ensure consistent, accurate, and timely reporting into Group Finance and Executive leadership.

Commercial & Strategic Partnering

· Serve as the primary finance business partner to the MD, offering challenge, insight, and strategic support.

· Influence commercial strategy across hardware sales, SaaS subscriptions, operations, and data services.

· Lead financial assessment of new business models, pricing options, customer economics, and retention initiatives.

Performance Management

· Build robust KPIs, dashboards, and analytical tools highlighting trends in acquisition, utilisation, ARPU, gross margin, and operational leverage.

· Identify performance risks and opportunities, driving corrective actions with operational and commercial teams.

· Improve forecast reliability and insight through better processes, stakeholder alignment, and data-driven modelling.

Leadership & Team Development

· Lead and develop a team of FP&A professionals (business partner and analyst level), fostering a high-performance culture focused on commercial impact and analytical excellence.

· Strengthen FP&A processes across multiple countries, ensuring scalability and consistency.

· Act as a champion for continuous improvement, innovation, and best-in-class financial practices.

Governance & Cross-Functional Alignment

· Ensure adherence to internal financial controls, Group policies, and reporting standards.

· Work closely with Sales, Marketing, Installations, Product, and Technology teams to bring financial rigour into decision-making.

· Support M&A evaluation, integration, and post-acquisition performance management where required.

Profile

The successful FP&A Director candidate should meet most or all of the following criteria:

· Senior FP&A leadership experience, ideally gained within a technology-enabled, data-centric, or subscription-based business (e.g., SaaS, IoT, Telecoms).

· Experience operating across multiple geographies and complex business units.

· Proven track record in developing high-performing teams and modernising FP&A processes.

· Strong commercial acumen and an ability to influence senior stakeholders.

· Expertise in forecasting, modelling, scenario analysis, and performance analytics.

· Demonstrated experience implementing finance systems or planning tools (e.g. Tagetik, Anaplan, Adaptive Insights, or equivalent).

Job Offer

· Competitive basic package to £140,000, including salary and car allowance.

· Bonus: 20% annual performance bonus.

· 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays.

· Private healthcare for you and your family.

· Life assurance.

· Contributory pension scheme.

· Opportunity to shape the FP&A function for the largest region in a rapidly growing, technology-led division.

· Significant influence on commercial strategy and divisional performance.

· Opportunity to join an entrepreneurial environment with a track record of upward mobility for high achievers.