Group Head of FP&A in Leicester

Join a fast-growing, PE-backed business at a pivotal stage of its growth journey, where your insight will directly influence strategic decisions and value creation. This is a high-impact Group role with significant exposure to the Board and investors, offering the opportunity to shape the FP&A function and drive performance across the organisation.

About the Role:

As Group Head of FP&A, you will lead the financial planning, forecasting and performance insight for the Group, providing robust analysis to support strategic and operational decision-making. You will build and develop a high-performing FP&A team, embed best-in-class processes, and act as a key strategic business partner to the executive leadership. Working closely with the PE stakeholders, you will play a central role in driving growth, profitability and cash generation across the business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the Group budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning processes, ensuring accurate, timely and insightful outputs.
• Develop and maintain advanced financial models to support scenario analysis, strategic initiatives and investment decisions.
• Drive performance reporting across the Group, designing and delivering clear KPI dashboards and management information for Board and PE stakeholders.
• Partner with functional and business unit leaders to provide commercial insight, challenge assumptions and support data-driven decision-making.
• Lead budgeting and cost management initiatives, identifying efficiency opportunities and supporting margin improvement.
• Own and continuously improve FP&A processes, tools and reporting frameworks to enhance accuracy, speed and insight.
• Manage, coach and develop the FP&A team, setting clear objectives and building a culture of high performance and collaboration.
• Support change and transformation projects, including systems enhancements, process re-engineering and integration activities.

Key Requirements:

• Proven experience in a senior FP&A leadership role within a fast-growing, PE-backed business or similarly dynamic environment.
• Strong track record in financial planning, forecasting, budgeting and cost management at Group or multi-entity level.
• Demonstrable expertise in advanced financial modelling and scenario analysis.
• Excellent performance reporting and KPI development skills, with the ability to translate data into clear, actionable insight.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with credibility to influence senior executives and investors.
• Proven leadership and team management experience, with the ability to build and develop high-performing FP&A teams.
• Commercially astute with strong analytical capability and a focus on value creation and cash generation.
• Experience of leading or supporting change, transformation and process improvement within finance.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience in a multi-site, multi-country or complex Group structure.
• Prior involvement in M&A, integration or carve-out projects.
• Exposure to PE reporting requirements, covenant management and value creation plans.
• Familiarity with data visualisation tools and self-service BI environments.
• Experience working closely with operational teams to drive performance improvement initiatives.

Qualifications:

• Fully qualified accountant (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Strong academic background in finance, accounting, economics or a related discipline.
• Additional qualifications or training in financial modelling, data analytics or BI tools are advantageous.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development in leadership, change management or transformation is preferred.

If you are a commercially minded FP&A leader ready to shape the future of a fast-growing, PE-backed Group, please apply to explore this opportunity further.