Director of FP&A - PE backed Digital Technology sector

PE backed Digital Consumer Technology

Director of FP&A

Circa £130,000 + to 30% bonus + benefits

Central London - hybrid

This is one of the UK's leading, PE backed Technology sector disruptors. It has benefited from significant levels of funding over the past 5 years and has capitalised on a rapidly growing consumer market which has constantly captured the public's attention.

This established and entrepreneurial business is now seeking a talented Director of FP&A who can play a key role in the next stage of business growth.

Reporting to Group CFO and managing a small team of Finance Business Partners, the role includes:

• Partner Exec level stakeholders including the CCO, CEO and CTO
• Lead on the annual budgeting and forecasting processes
• Develop and maintain robust long term financial models for internal and external consumption
• Analysis of business performance, creating insight and recommendations to drive continued growth
• Partner senior cross functional stakeholders, to provide insight on corporate development and investment opportunities
• Deliver clear performance analysis and insight - providing strategies, support and challenge across the business
• Executing financial management and insight enabling sound decision making and steering business success, through commercial support & financial analysis of performance
• Providing insight, analysis and recommendations in relation to growth assessment and improvement, financial sustainability and investment cases
• Analysis and reporting for Investors
• Coaching and developing the 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 a highly credible finance professional with significant experience of developing and driving best practice FP&A processes, with particular emphasis on cost control, enforcing the appropriate behaviours across the business.

With impressive levels of gravitas, drive and intellectual horsepower, you must have a demonstrably successful background in influencing senior commercial stakeholders, robustly able to engage in business-critical discussions and standing your ground on financial matters.

You must have sector experience from either Technology or Telecoms and ideally, though not essential, have had some exposure to corporate finance and have worked within a PE backed business.

Personality and behaviours are a key element for the successful candidate. Business acumen, first class communication skills, an innately curious mindset and a confidence in your own ability are pre-requisite to succeed within this this exciting, market leading growth story.