Interim Head of FP&A

The Head of FP&A is a pivotal member of the Finance team at Secret Escapes. In this broad and varied role, you will be an essential support to the wider business by leveraging the team’s understanding of trading drivers, financial models, and stakeholder expectations to create forward-looking plans against which the business measures its performance. You will lead a team of senior professionals and have frequent interactions with the Group’s Leadership team, acting as a key member of the Finance Leadership team. High-quality personal delivery, along with an energy and enthusiasm that inspires the team, is a must.

About Secret Escapes: Secret Escapes is one of the world’s leading members-only, online travel deals companies, offering inspiring travel experiences and hand-picked offers to over 60 million members worldwide. Operating in 10 countries across Europe, Secret Escapes continues to grow and establish itself as a world-class business, dedicated to giving our members the best range and value in luxury travel deals at low prices.

The Role & What You'll Do:

• Lead monthly outturn reporting and the FY27 annual Budget process, ensuring buy-in from Exec Leadership and the broader stakeholder set, culminating in clear Board materials.
• Partner with the Marketing team to ensure investments are profitable and drive long-term growth while hitting EBITDA goals.
• Collaborate with the Trading team to set monthly revenue targets that drive commission payments and meet group EBITDA goals.
• Support the business in assessing the financial impact of strategic initiatives and their subsequent implementation into financial reporting processes.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes with AI and support the team to integrate AI technology where appropriate.
• Drive alignment and process improvement with finance colleagues in our acquired brand (Travelist).
• Provide the link between core trading data and financial reporting, ensuring reporting needs are met and maintained.
• Deliver insight into monthly reported trading variances vs. Budget.
• Partner with the Finance Control team to maintain strong working capital reporting.
• Execute a plan covering the FP&A elements of exit readiness, using recent FDD exercises to drive improvements.
• Develop a team of two senior managers, setting a strong example of inquisitiveness and energy.
• Support the team to deliver business partnering to Leadership ensuring cost budgets are understood and tracked.
• Contribute proactively to Finance Leadership Team discussions, strategy, and planning.

The Team: FP&A is a highly valued business partner to our commercial teams. We collaborate with our colleagues in the broader Finance, Commercial and Data teams to produce truly insightful analyses, models, and forecasts that the most senior parts of the organisation value highly. We are hard-working, data-driven, and supportive—and we always enjoy a team lunch and a quiz or two!

You Will Bring:

• A strong accountancy and financial planning background.
• Extensive experience operating in a fast-growth ecommerce or technology business, with the ability to hit the ground running.
• A track record of delivering complex projects while navigating tight deadlines.
• Proven team leadership experience, with a comfort for developing both your own and the team’s commercial and technical knowledge.
• Expertise operating in an environment that requires regular re-prioritisation.
• Influencing ability, both vertically and laterally, through a combination of sound reasoning and rapport building.
• Beneficial but not required: Experience using data tools (e.g., Tableau and dbt) and familiarity with successfully implementing AI technology into Finance processes.

And You Are:

• An excellent communicator who is at ease explaining complex concepts to a lay audience.
• A professional with presence and a style that makes a lasting impression.
• A collaborative influencer capable of nurturing important matrix relationships and direct reports.
• Open-minded and willing to be influenced by sound arguments, new information, or evidence.
• An inspiring leader who sets an example through personal delivery, energy, and determination.
• Dedicated to developing and growing the skills and performance of your team.

Working Requirements: Hybrid (3 days in the office). Secret Escapes operates a 'Work from Anywhere' policy, so you can work from anywhere in the world for up to 4 weeks each year! We also offer flexible working with core hours between 10 am to 4 pm, and you have the freedom to schedule the remaining hours to suit your routine. As an inspiring travel brand, we also provide a 'Work From Anywhere' scheme giving you the opportunity to work from anywhere in the world. This benefit is designed both to feed our travel passion and support parents and carers, especially during school holidays.

We are an equal opportunity employer: Diversity and inclusion are important to us at Secret Escapes and we encourage a culture where everyone can be themselves at work. We value and actively seek out a richly diverse range of talent and our policies ensure that every job application and employee is treated fairly, with equal opportunity to succeed. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law. As part of our commitment to inclusion, we are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer.