Finatal
Director of Financial Planning and Analysis
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Director of FP&A
Location: London
Reference: HT16229
The Opportunity
Finatal is partnering with a PE-backed SaaS business who are looking to appoint a high-calibre Director of FP&A to join its finance leadership team during an important phase of continued growth and transformation.
This is a broad FP&A leadership role combining the core disciplines of budgeting, forecasting, management reporting and financial planning with significant exposure to M&A, strategic analysis and functional business partnering.
The successful candidate will inherit a strong existing FP&A platform and team, while playing a key role in developing the broader partnering capability across the organisation.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the core FP&A cycle across budgeting, forecasting, planning and monthly management reporting.
- Own and continue to develop financial models and analytical outputs used to support senior leadership decision-making.
- Partner closely with business and functional leaders across the firm’s increasingly business-unit-led operating model.
- Provide financial business partnering across shared-service and functional cost areas, ensuring strong visibility and accountability around spend and performance.
- Support the Corporate Development team across the M&A lifecycle, including financial diligence, transaction analysis and support around potential acquisitions.
- Work closely with senior leadership as the firm continues to evolve its operating model and finance organisation.
- Lead, coach and develop an international FP&A team consisting of three managers and approximately five analysts.
- Maintain a high standard of financial discipline while identifying opportunities to improve processes, reporting and decision support.
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Team Structure
The role will have responsibility for an international team of approximately eight. This currently includes:
- Three manager-level reports across London, Canada and potentially Lisbon.
- A wider analyst team primarily based in Brazil.
- An established core FP&A capability with strong institutional knowledge of the business.
- A developing functional business partnering capability that this hire will be expected to help shape and strengthen.
Candidate Profile
We’re looking to speak to professionals with a strong technical and commercial finance foundation who can operate comfortably in a fast-paced, PE-backed software environment.
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The ideal candidate will bring:
- An early-career background in Transaction Services / Financial Due Diligence, ideally from a recognised accounting or advisory firm.
- Subsequent experience operating within an in-house finance function rather than moving directly from advisory.
- Strong hands-on FP&A experience across budgeting, forecasting, reporting and financial modelling.
- Experience within a SaaS or software business, ideally within a PE-backed or similarly high-performance environment.
- Strong understanding of SaaS economics and metrics, including concepts such as ARR and recurring revenue movements.
- Exposure to M&A, financial diligence or acquisition support.
- Experience partnering with senior stakeholders outside finance.
- The ability to lead and develop a geographically dispersed team.
- Strong analytical capability combined with the communication skills to translate financial information into commercial insight.
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