Pareto Facilities Management Ltd
FP&A Manager
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FP&A Manager Financial Planning & Analysis Manager – AI & Automation Lead
Location
London office or Milton Keynes office
Salary
Competitive + Benefits
About Pareto Group
Pareto Group is a fast-growing, private equity-backed facilities management business with a turnover of c.£80–100m and an ambitious buy-and-build strategy. Following recent acquisitions and ongoing integration activity, we are looking for an exceptional FP&A Manager to help shape the future of our finance function.
The Opportunity
This role sits at the centre of financial planning, forecasting, board reporting, and business intelligence across the Group.
You'll be responsible for:
- Building and maintaining Pareto's consolidated financial model
- Owning the budgeting and forecasting process
- Producing board and investor reporting
- Creating automated data flows between core systems including Sage and Simpro
Alongside these responsibilities, you'll act as Pareto's AI champion within finance, identifying opportunities to automate processes, improve reporting, and increase efficiency through the use of AI tools such as Claude, Copilot, and other emerging technologies.
What You'll Be Doing
AI & Automation Leadership
- Lead AI adoption across the finance function
- Champion the use of AI tools within finance
- Automate variance commentary, board pack narratives, reporting workflows, and analytical processes
- Identify manual and repetitive finance processes and develop automation solutions
- Build AI playbooks, prompt libraries, and best-practice guides
- Train and support the wider finance team in adopting AI-supported working practices
- Work alongside the COO and leadership team on wider business automation initiatives
- Stay up to date with developments in AI and proactively introduce new capabilities
Financial Planning & Analysis
- Own the annual budgeting process from planning through to sign-off
- Develop and maintain rolling forecasts and scenario models
- Build and maintain a fully integrated three-statement financial model
- Produce detailed financial forecasts and sensitivity analysis
- Develop and maintain 13-week and 12-month cash flow forecasts
- Support acquisition modelling, integration planning, and synergy analysis
- Provide meaningful forward-looking financial insight to support decision making
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Board & Investor Reporting
- Own the monthly board reporting process
- Produce investor-grade financial packs and commentary
- Develop KPI reporting aligned to the Group's value creation plan
- Support lender and covenant reporting requirements
- Work closely with the CFO ahead of board meetings and investor updates
- Develop robust reporting frameworks to support future exit activity
Data & Reporting Infrastructure
- Lead the development of automated reporting between Sage, Simpro, and management reporting tools
- Build dashboards and performance reporting for senior leadership
- Ensure contract-level financial data is accurate, consistent, and accessible
- Improve reporting efficiency by eliminating manual data handling wherever possible
- Maintain strong governance, version control, and audit trails across reporting processes
Commercial & Operational Analysis
- Develop contract-level profitability reporting
- Analyse margins, commercial performance, and operational trends
- Support bid pricing, commercial modelling, and investment decisions
- Monitor working capital performance including WIP, debtors, and cash conversion
- Deliver actionable insight to operational leaders and senior management
Team Development
- Act as the finance team's subject matter expert for modelling, systems, and reporting
- Support Finance Business Partners with data and analytical frameworks
- Help standardise reporting and analytical processes across the Group
- Mentor and develop junior finance colleagues
Essential Experience
What We're Looking For
- Proven experience within FP&A, Commercial Finance, Management Accounting, or a similar analytical finance role
- Advanced financial modelling capability, including integrated three-statement models, forecasting, and scenario analysis
- Strong cash flow forecasting experience
- Proven, hands-on use of AI and LLM tools in a professional environment (hard requirement)
- Experience producing board-level or senior leadership reporting
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Experience working in multi-entity or operationally complex businesses
- Excellent Excel and financial systems capability
- Ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels
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Highly Desirable
- PE-backed, investor reporting, or lender reporting experience
- Facilities Management, engineering services, support services, or other contract-led business experience
- Experience with ERP systems such as Sage
- Experience with field operations platforms such as Simpro
- Power BI, Power Automate, Python, or similar automation experience
- Acquisition, integration, or business transformation exposure
Qualifications
- ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualified (preferred)
- Strong candidates who are part-qualified or qualified by experience will also be considered
Personal Attributes
We're looking for someone who:
- Is genuinely excited by AI and emerging technology
- Loves building processes, systems, and reporting frameworks from scratch
- Is commercially curious and wants to understand how the business operates
- Has exceptional attention to detail and high standards of accuracy
- Can communicate complex analysis clearly to non-finance stakeholders
- Is proactive, self-motivated, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
- Enjoys improving processes and challenging traditional ways of working
- Wants to play a key role in shaping the future of a growing business
Why Join Pareto?
- Direct exposure to CFO, COO, CEO, and private equity investors
- Opportunity to lead AI adoption within a finance function
- Significant scope to influence systems, processes, and reporting
- Work within a growing PE-backed business with ambitious expansion plans
- Genuine opportunity to develop into a senior finance leadership position
- Be part of a business embracing innovation, automation, and modern finance practices
This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious FP&A professional who wants to combine commercial finance, technology, AI, and strategic business partnering in a role that offers genuine influence and long-term career progression.
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