Senior FP&A Business Partner - Build out a new FP&A function | 80% Remote in Leeds

Build something from nothing. Then watch it run the business. That's the CFO, describing the one thing that matters more than anything else on the CV for this role. There's a version of your career where you join a company, inherit somebody else's spreadsheet, and spend the next three years quietly improving the edges of a system somebody else designed. This isn't that. There is no FP&A function here. Not a bad one. Not an old one held together with macros. None. The reporting, the budgeting, the forecasting, the dashboards the leadership team actually opens - all of it starts with you.

The CFO has been doing this role himself, on top of his own job. He didn't want to fill the seat with anyone. He wanted to wait for the right person. This role is about identifying opportunities to grow business value. It's got to be a value-adding function, not just reporting.

Alongside building FP&A from the ground up, you'll be pulled directly into the business case for an entirely new product line, one that's being scoped right now. Target market. Pricing. Returns. Funding. Cash flow. It's effectively a startup business, running alongside the existing one. Two businesses. One finance function. Built by you.

Not someone who waits to be told what to build. Get involved, make a nuisance of yourself, and try to add real value. I'd rather the bulk of your time was spent on things you think we need to look at, rather than things we've asked you to look at. You'll sit closest to the Financial Controller day to day, with the CFO closely and directly involved, not a name on an org chart three layers up. Genuine, early access to senior leadership and the Board - the kind of exposure most FP&A careers don't get until much later, if ever.

You've built elements of FP&A / Commercial Finance capability before; you're not just a user of Excel, analytics tools like Power BI / Tableau - you have an IT/Technical skill set where you have built, created, designed and developed reports. You're hungry enough for the first real shot at bringing those skills to create a brand-new function/capability. You will be CIMA/ACA/ACCA qualified (or equivalent). You ask why, not just what. You're as comfortable elbow-deep in a model as you are in a room defending it. Previous experience in a regulated or highly analytical environment helps. It isn't the deciding factor. Curiosity is.

If you need a fully defined role, an existing team and a handover document before you'll commit, this isn't for you. If you want to build one and be able to point at it afterwards and say 'I did that,' it's hard to find a better opportunity right now. Understanding the business is an absolute necessity for this role, and it's the best possible place to do it, because you're exposed to everything. I want people asking me to get involved because I'm the expert.

This one's being run through iFF Talent, which means a straight conversation before you commit to anything, high-quality candidate packs, world-class interview prep, honest feedback at every stage rather than silence, and real salary and market context so you can judge this against the market rather than a guess. It also means access to The DiFFerence, our own career mapping and mentoring, on this role or your next one, whether or not this particular opportunity turns out to be the right fit. Beyond recruitment isn't a slogan for us, it's genuinely how we work.

Contact Javed Bobat, Co-Founder at iFF Talent. jav@ifftalent.com | 07471 155006