Head of Corporate FP&A in London

Our client provides critical technology and telecoms infrastructure across Europe and Asia, where it holds leading positions in its core markets, offering world-class services to a host of Blue Chip clients. The business is extremely well capitalised, with an aggressive growth strategy over the next 5 years.

This Head of Corporate FP&A role is responsible for the coordination of an action-focused, connected planning process, from short-term liquidity forecasting through to long-term projections to support corporate planning and transaction activity such as joint ventures, refinancing and M&A.

The role will partner across all commercial and operations teams to understand the drivers of recent trading performance, commercial pipeline, cost management, deployment of Capex and KPIs. This overview will allow the Head of Corporate FP&A to coordinate forward-looking action-based plans that will optimise performance. The new Head of Corporate FP&A is also responsible for driving the execution of ad hoc projects, identifying opportunities for process improvement and acting upon these to realise efficiencies.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of all Group and Board reporting.
• Coordination of all forecast and planning processes, along with preparation of associated deliverables for the Executive and Board.
• Acting as commercial business partner to the leadership team, proactively bringing insight through ad hoc analysis, deep diving key issues, scenario analysis, etc.
• Ownership of transaction activity, such as refinancing, acquisitions, divestments, joint ventures, as well as working with key stakeholders to define and articulate the Group strategy.
• Ownership of the new planning and reporting tool, further developing the system to embed insightful reporting and fully connected planning.
• Leadership and development of a team of three FP&A professionals.

Qualifications

The successful candidate for this Head of Corporate FP&A role will have gained experience in another medium or large international group, either currently working in FP&A or with time previously spent in a Group FP&A role. Exposure to and involvement in transactions would be highly advantageous, including M&A, JVs and refinancing, whether gained within another FP&A role or from time spent in an advisory role.

Experience as a commercial business partner would be extremely beneficial, but as a minimum, all candidates must possess highly developed interpersonal skills in order to influence at all levels across the business. Some form or prior team leadership experience is essential, to develop and build a successful FP&A function. Any experience or exposure to systems implementations or systems development and improvement projects would be an added bonus, as the finance team seeks to drive further value from technology.

To apply for this Head of Corporate FP&A role, please press the apply button. Please note that due to the expected volume of applications, we will only be able to respond to those candidates whose experience matches the requirements of our client. We are sorry, but if you have not heard from us within the next ten days, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

Walker Hamill has been a specialist finance and strategy recruiter for approaching 40 years. We have an extensive client group, including major multinational listed organisations, private equity backed businesses and privately owned companies. We recruit across all sectors and have particularly strong client relationships in media, retail, pharma/biotech, technology, property/real estate, leisure and business services. Headquartered in London, we have additional offices in continental Europe.