FP&A Manager

The FP&A Manager is responsible for delivering high-quality financial planning, modelling, and analysis to support decision-making across CrossCountry. Reporting to the Head of FP&A, this role plays a key part in the annual business planning process, forecasting, and long-term financial modelling. As the analytical lead within FP&A, the role owns and develops financial models that link P&L, balance sheet, and cashflow, providing clear insight into performance drivers, risks, and opportunities. The FP&A Manager works closely with the Financial Controller, Finance Business Partners and other stakeholders to ensure robust, data-driven planning and forecasting aligned to DfT funding requirements.

Financial Planning and Forecasting

• Support the Head of FP&A in delivering the annual business plan and periodic forecasts, ensuring alignment with DfT funding requirements.
• Develop and maintain robust forecasting processes, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and transparency of assumptions.
• Build and maintain a controlled assumptions log, ensuring all planning and forecasting inputs are clearly defined, version-controlled, and consistently applied across models.
• Ensure all assumptions are traceable to operational and financial drivers, working with Finance Business Partners to validate inputs.

Financial Modelling and Scenario Analysis

• Own and develop integrated financial models linking P&L, balance sheet, and cashflow.
• Deliver scenario modelling and sensitivity analysis to support decision-making and risk assessment.
• Support strategic projects through detailed financial modelling and evaluation of options.

Workforce and Cost Modelling

• Own and maintain the workforce cost model, ensuring accurate reflection of headcount, pay, and related cost drivers.
• Provide insight into workforce cost trends, risks and opportunities as part of planning and forecasting cycles.

Cashflow and Long-Term Planning

• Own long-term cashflow forecasting, ensuring clear visibility of liquidity, funding requirements, and financial sustainability.
• Analyse underlying drivers of cash performance, including working capital and capital expenditure.

Performance Insight and Analysis

• Provide high-quality analytical support to explain financial performance, including key drivers, trends and variances.
• Translate complex financial outputs into clear, actionable insights for senior stakeholders.
• Support the development of MI and reporting to enhance planning and decision-making.

Collaboration and Stakeholder Support

• Work closely with Finance Business Partners to provide modelling, analysis, and planning support.
• Act as a key contact for FP&A outputs, ensuring consistency and alignment across the finance function.
• Support the Head of FP&A with ad-hoc analysis, presentations and strategic deliverables.

Key Attributes and Skills

• Advanced financial modelling skills, with the ability to build best practice integrated models across P&L, balance sheet and cashflow.
• Strong analytical capability, able to interpret complex data and identify key drivers and insights.
• High attention to detail and accuracy in model development and outputs.
• Strong understanding of financial performance drivers, including cost, revenue and cash dynamics.
• Experience in budgeting, forecasting and long-term financial planning processes.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, able to convey complex financial concepts clearly and concisely.
• Demonstrates integrity and ownership of financial models and outputs, ensuring transparency, consistency and robustness.

Experience, Knowledge, Qualifications & Training

• Essential: Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or actively working towards qualification with relevant experience.
• Strong experience in financial planning, analysis and modelling.
• Advanced Excel and best practice FAST financial modelling capability.
• Experience in budgeting, forecasting and scenario analysis.
• Strong understanding of financial statements and cashflow dynamics.
• Ability to work collaboratively across finance teams, particularly with business partnering functions.

• Desirable: Experience in transport, infrastructure or regulated environments.
• Experience supporting DfT business planning or similar funding models.

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