Senior Specialist, Commercial FP&A in London

This role sits at the centre of a high‑performing finance team, partnering closely with stakeholders across Finance and the wider organisation, including Senior Leadership Teams within Business Transformation, Technology and the People Team. It is responsible for preparing high‑quality management information and financial projections for the NewDay Management Team, supporting the monthly Leadership Committee and leading core financial processes such as the annual budgeting cycle, rolling monthly and weekly forecasting, and ongoing performance monitoring.

The role delivers significant value by enabling informed, timely decision‑making across senior leadership through clear financial insight, robust forecasting and strong performance oversight. Its collaborative, business‑partnering approach strengthens alignment between finance, strategy and delivery, ensuring financial considerations are embedded into transformation initiatives and organisational planning across NewDay.

How You’ll Contribute

• Accountable for the Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting process for NewDay ensuring a cohesive planning cycle which informs and challenges the business in making key strategic decisions.
• Provide finance support in preparing and reviewing NewDay investment business cases, providing commercial acumen and challenge, ensuring that benefits are realisable.
• Helping to support and track the 5-year strategic plan and embed it into the budget.
• Prepare insightful and clear commentary to ensure the key messages are clearly articulated to senior management.
• Prepare reporting and analysis for Monthly Reviews, including deep dive analysis on KPIs, financial performance, key issues.
• Develop and maintain NewDay segment as a standalone module in Anaplan for pricing, forecasting and performance management.
• Support wider team on adhoc analysis across but not limited to Strategy, Business Development, Investor Relations, Deko partnering and Commercial analytics.

We’re Looking For These Essential Skills

• Key financial principles, holding a recognised accountancy qualification or equivalent professional qualification.
• FP&A or Partnering role, working with functional and commercial teams to achieve results.
• Presenting information in a clear and concise fashion to senior management.
• Building financial forecasting models in Excel, using a logical and analytical approach.
• Generating commercial insight from raw data.

It’s a Plus If You Have These Skills

• Partnering across businesses.
• Payments technology.
• Financial Services.

What's in it for you?

• 26 days holiday, rising to 30 with service.
• A holiday buy scheme (up to 5 extra days).
• Double matched pension, with up to 14% from NewDay.
• Generous annual performance bonuses.
• Private medical insurance with Bupa, including mental health support and cancer care.
• 26 weeks paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave.
• Free breakfast and lunch in the office every day, provided by our in-house chefs…and more.

At NewDay, we value all types of diversity. We’re an equal opportunity employer and believe that our differences create a vibrant, authentic working culture. We want all our colleagues to feel able to bring their whole selves to work. We don’t discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics or identities. We make sure that every job is crafted to be inclusive and that people with disabilities or caring responsibilities can take part in the application and interview process.

Tell us if you need accommodations: We’ll put reasonable adjustments in place to support you. We work with Textio to make our job design and hiring inclusive.

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