About the Role
As FP&A Lead, you’ll report to the CFO and be responsible for developing, maintaining, and improving our financial planning processes, tools, and outputs. You will drive the company-wide planning rhythm, support decision-making with high-quality forecasts and analysis, and act as a thought partner to functional leads.
This role requires a strong analytical mind, a pragmatic approach to tooling and automation, and the ability to translate complex data into actionable business insight. You’ll also play a key role in helping the company scale its financial maturity—ensuring we operate with clarity, discipline, and flexibility as we grow.
What You’ll Do
- Planning & Forecasting
- Lead the company’s annual budget and quarterly reforecasting processes
- Develop and maintain multi-scenario financial models that support strategic and operational decision-making
- Partner with business functions to build accurate, data-driven plans across headcount, OPEX, CAPEX, and project spend
- Provide visibility on burn, run rate, variance to plan, and budget utilisation across the company
- Performance Management & Reporting
- Deliver regular financial reporting and commentary for the leadership team and board
- Monitor financial KPIs across functions and flag emerging risks or opportunities
- Work closely with the Head of Finance to track and report company performance against long-range plans
- Develop dashboards and tools to improve transparency and accountability across teams
- Business Partnership
- Act as a trusted finance partner to engineering, operations, and go-to-market leads
- Support project planning, resource allocation, and vendor negotiations with relevant financial inputs
- Drive proactive conversations around spend optimisation, trade-offs, and investment returns
- Support commercial teams with pricing, margin, and cost modelling
- Tooling, Process & Systems
- Design and implement scalable planning workflows, templates, and financial systems
- Help evaluate and deploy FP&A tools
- Drive automation and integration across finance and operational data sources
- Establish documentation and governance around planning inputs, assumptions, and outputs
We’re Looking For:
- 6+ years of experience in FP&A, finance business partnering, or strategic finance roles
- Strong modelling and analytical skills, with the ability to build clean, scalable, and insightful models
- Experience in hardware, manufacturing, robotics, or capital-intensive businesses is a plus
- Excellent communication skills – you can distil complexity and frame trade-offs clearly for senior stakeholders
- Self-starter with a builder’s mindset – comfortable designing processes from scratch in a fast-paced environment
- Deep understanding of cost structures, capital planning, and cash flow modelling
Bonus Points
- Prior experience supporting engineering, manufacturing, or supply chain organisations
- Familiarity with finance systems and data tooling (e.g. NetSuite, Looker, Tableau, Power BI)
- Experience preparing board-level reporting or working in investor-backed companies
- Exposure to unit economics, pricing models, and product lifecycle financials
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