Financial Planning and Analysis Specialist

Financial Planning and Analysis Specialist

About RedCompass Labs

RedCompass Labs are payments experts focused exclusively on payments modernization. Over the last 23 years, RedCompass Labs has delivered 500+ projects across the world’s major payments schemes and platforms, including ISO 20022, SEPA, Swift, the Real-time Payments Network, and FedNow, ISO 20022 migrations, and FIS OPF, Finastra GPP, and ACI Worldwide.

Its flagship Payments Expert Agent is an AI solution purpose-built for the full payments modernization software development lifecycle. Trained on decades of deep payments expertise and more than 30,000 curated documents, the agent is certified to SOC 2 Type II.

RedCompass Labs supports clients from offices in London, Warsaw, Brussels, Miami, Boston, Toronto, and Pune. For more information, visit www.redcompasslabs.com.

Role Description

This is a highly visible finance role that combines financial modelling, reporting, business partnering, and commercial analysis.

Working closely with the CFO and Finance leadership team, you will help maintain robust planning models, support budgeting and forecasting processes, develop management reporting, and translate financial data into meaningful business insights.

You will work extensively with NetSuite, Power BI, and advanced Excel models to support strategic decision-making across a fast-growing international business.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys turning complex data into actionable recommendations and wants to influence business performance beyond traditional reporting.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning across a global, multi-entity business.
• Build financial models and scenario analyses to support strategic decision-making
• Deliver insightful management reporting, KPI dashboards, and Board-level analysis
• Partner with leaders across Finance, Sales, Delivery, Product, and Operations to improve business performance
• Analyse revenue, profitability, headcount, utilisation, and cash performance to identify opportunities and risks
• Support commercial decisions through pricing, investment, and business case modelling.
• Own and enhance reporting capabilities using NetSuite, Power BI, and advanced Excel
• Improve financial processes, data quality, governance, and automation, including the use of AI-driven tools
• Support international finance operations, compliance activities, and multi-currency reporting.
• Help build a data-driven culture by providing clear financial insight and practical recommendations
• Support multi-currency and multi-entity reporting across the UK, Poland, Belgium, USA, Canada, and India.

To be successful in this role you need the following:

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
• 5+ years' experience in FP&A, financial analysis, or management reporting
• Strong accounting background with hands‑on experience using NetSuite (or a comparable cloud ERP) to extract, reconcile and manipulate financial data for planning and reporting purposes
• Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, and financial modelling
• Experience building, maintaining and improving financial models, forecasts and scenario analysis frameworks
• Advanced Excel skills including Power Query, financial models, and scenario planning
• Experience creating dashboards and reporting in Power BI (or similar BI tools)
• Experience building, maintaining and improving financial models, forecasts and scenario analysis frameworks
• Experience supporting KPI definition and designing management reporting for senior stakeholders
• Confident presenting financial analysis and recommendations to senior stakeholders
• Strong headcount and people cost budgeting experience in an international, multi-entity business
• Experience with multi-currency, multi-entity consolidation across international operations
• Commercial awareness - able to see beyond the numbers and understand what is driving business performance
• Ability to challenge assumptions constructively and maintain financial rigour while building strong working relationships.
• Experience in a professional services, technology, or consulting environment
• Exposure to fast-growing scale-up businesses
• Experience with multi-country payroll and compliance processes
• Exposure to financial services, payments, fintech, or technology sectors
• Experience implementing FP&A, BI, or reporting tools

What Success Looks Like

In the first six months, the successful Candidate will have:

• Supported the MI and Board reporting cycle with accurate, timely analysis and clear supporting commentary
• Maintained a refreshed rolling forecast and budget model, built on NetSuite data, that gives Finance leadership clear visibility of the year ahead
• Helped maintain a suite of KPIs and Power BI dashboard reporting that provide useful insight beyond historical results
• Built trusted working relationships with Finance leadership and key business stakeholders
• Identified at least one meaningful improvement to financial process, tooling or governance

What We Offer

• Join with a clear growth pathway: we're looking for a senior FP&A professional with the ambition and potential to develop leadership capabilities and progress into a Finance leadership role as the team and business continue to scale
• Join a trust‑based, transparent, and collaborative culture where your voice matters and ideas influence outcomes
• Enjoy real ownership and autonomy in how you approach challenges, deliver work, and grow your expertise
• Be part of a diverse and inclusive global team across the UK, Europe, North America and Asia, where fairness and meritocracy guide every decision
• Collaborate daily with senior industry experts and leaders, accelerating your professional development
• Experience a human, respectful, and well‑structured recruitment and onboarding journey designed around clarity and mutual fit
• Grow through continuous learning, cross‑functional work, and exposure to both consulting and product‑building environments
• Join a company that values integrity, curiosity, and continuous improvement, and empowers you to make meaningful impact from day one.
• Up to 10% of annual earnings as a personal performance bonus
• Life insurance
• Group Income Protection
• Health Insurance for you and your family
• Dental Insurance for you and your family
• Pension: the pension is currently 4% employer and 4% employee. You also have the option to increase your contributions to your private pension, if you wish.
• 28 days annual holiday plus Public & Bank holidays
• 7 days of sick leave paid 100% per annum

Please Note

Before applying, please review the requirements carefully:

• We can only consider candidates based in London, Threadneedle Str with 60% - applications from outside the UK will not be considered.
• This role is designed for an experienced FP&A professional seeking the next step in their career. We are looking for someone who can grow with the business, build leadership skills, and ultimately take on broader people management and Finance leadership responsibilities in the coming years.

RedCompass Labs is committed to promoting and supporting a diverse and inclusive workplace, ensuring fair and equitable treatment for all. This fuels innovation and enables us to work better together with each other and for our clients.

RedCompass Labs may use AI-enabled tools to support parts of our recruitment process, such as reviewing applications or preparing information for our recruiters. All hiring decisions are made by members of our team, using human review and judgement — no candidate is selected or rejected solely on an AI-generated output. If you have questions about how these tools are used in your application, or would like to request an alternative process, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team (recruitment@redcompass.com).

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