FP&A Manager

This is a newly created role as a FP&A Manager for a Global organisation with a major office in Cardiff.

Client Details

A global organisation with sites across 3 major international locations.

The business has ambitious plans and this newly created role will manage the budget for over £130m in IT spend.

Description

This is a newly created role within a global organisation where you will be able to put your own stamp on the role.

As the FP&A Manager you will be responsible for a BAU budget of c£30m annually and lead on Digital Transformation projects totaling over £100m.

The FP&A Manager will act as the lead finance business partner to the Technology & Transformation leadership team, working closely with senior executives to provide strategic financial guidance and oversight. The role will support the planning, forecasting, and performance management of a portfolio of complex, multi-year programmes and business transformation initiatives. Through robust financial analysis, commercial insight, and forward-looking forecasting, the FP&A Manager will help shape investment decisions, optimise resource allocation, and ensure programme delivery achieves its intended business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the lead finance business partner to a major business transformation function, providing strategic financial insight to support investment decisions, programme prioritisation, and long-term value creation.
• Lead financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting activities for a portfolio of significant, multi-year strategic initiatives, ensuring resource requirements and funding assumptions are robust, transparent, and aligned with organisational objectives.
• Maintain financial oversight of complex transformation programmes, monitoring expenditure, risks, and expected benefits to ensure projects remain financially viable and deliver anticipated outcomes.
• Collaborate with programme and operational leaders to assess the financial implications of project plans, scope adjustments, delivery timelines, and investment decisions, ensuring these are accurately reflected within financial forecasts.
• Establish and maintain strong financial governance frameworks, ensuring effective cost control, proactive risk identification, and timely intervention where variances arise.
• Develop financial models, business cases, and scenario analyses to support strategic decision-making, enabling senior stakeholders to evaluate alternative investment and delivery options.
• Prepare and present financial performance updates, investment appraisals, and forecasting insights to executive leadership, supporting informed decision-making and effective governance.
• Partner with finance, programme management, and people teams to ensure accurate project accounting, resource tracking, and financial reporting, including the appropriate treatment of capital and operational expenditure.
• Provide constructive challenge and commercial insight within investment and governance discussions, ensuring financial risks, assumptions, dependencies, and value drivers are clearly understood.
• Translate complex financial information into clear, actionable recommendations for senior leaders, supporting timely and commercially informed decision-making.
• Ensure alignment between programme financials and wider corporate planning cycles, including annual budgets, periodic forecasts, and long-range strategic plans.
• Drive continuous improvement in financial planning and project reporting processes, enhancing forecasting accuracy, cost transparency, and the quality of management information available to stakeholders.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and oversight to FP&A team members supporting strategic programmes, ensuring financial outputs are accurate, insightful, and aligned with business needs.