Blair West
FP&A Partner
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Blair West are supporting LSL Property Services plc with the appointment of a FP&A Partner.
As FP&A Partner, you will support best-in-class performance analysis and insights for LSL through variance analysis, commentary, and actionable narrative.
The successful candidate will support decisions that optimise business performance through analysis of relevant performance metrics, and provision of market and business models and scenarios, alongside the creation of robust and compelling long-range plans, forecasts, and budgets. This would suit a candidate with solid commercial finance grounding, keen to secure a progressive role within a leading listed business in the region.
The opportunity:
- Deliver high-quality performance insight and analytics, using KPIs and relevant metrics to provide variance analysis, identify trends and causation, and produce compelling commentary.
- Support scenario modelling across market assumptions and business performance, assessing potential profit outcomes over the planning period.
- Act as a trusted finance business partner, providing relevant data, analysis, and commercial insight to support informed and agile decision-making.
- Develop robust financial models to ensure key business decisions are supported by appropriate metrics, assumptions, and scenario analysis.
- Maintain a strong external market perspective, assessing market, customer, and competitor trends and their potential impact on business performance and projections.
- Model and evaluate potential business strategies, including organic and acquisitive growth opportunities and market entry or exit scenarios.
- Provide timely ad hoc analysis and insight to support strategic and operational decision-making, translating financial information within the wider commercial context.
- Support the overall planning cycle, including long-range plans, annual budgets, and quarterly and rolling forecasts, ensuring assumptions and local inputs are accurately reflected.
- Produce clear, visually engaging planning and forecasting materials, alongside investment appraisals and business cases for Divisional SMT, Group management, and Investment Committee review.
- Drive continuous improvement across FP&A processes, technology, and ways of working, collaborating effectively with Group and divisional FP&A teams to enhance planning, budgeting, and forecasting.
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You’ll be the ideal candidate for this position if you have:
- A qualification in accounting (CIMA, ACCA, ACA, or equivalent) with relevant experience across FP&A and/or Commercial Finance.
- Strong analytical capability, able to identify patterns, relationships, and trends in financial metrics and translate these into clear commercial insights for non-finance audiences.
- Proven experience in the creation, analysis, and presentation of plans, budgets, and forecasts, with the ability to understand key performance drivers and business implications.
- Strong financial modelling and scenario-planning experience, supporting effective commercial and strategic decision-making.
- Experience in performance analysis and commentary, able to look beyond the numbers to identify causation, implications, risks, and opportunities.
- Ability to communicate business performance, plans, and strategies through visually engaging materials and a clear, compelling narrative.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build collaborative relationships across functions, divisions, and organisational levels.
- Strong technology skills, including Excel, Power BI, planning tools, and presentation software.
- High standards of quality and accuracy, with the ability to deliver at pace while maintaining attention to detail.
- Experience working within a large, corporate, or matrix organisation, ideally within Professional Services (desirable).
- Experience working with FP&A systems and supporting the development or improvement of financial planning and reporting processes (desirable).
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The benefits included with this opportunity:
- Flexible, hybrid working arrangements.
- Private medical, health, & well-being benefits.
- Ongoing training and professional development.
- Up to 29 days annual leave + bank holidays.
- Colleagues can also tailor additional benefits through the LSL’s flexible benefits programme to suit their individual needs.
Our commitment
Blair West is an equal-opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and inclusion at every stage of the recruitment process. We are committed to fairness, equality, and ongoing diversity training for our team to give our candidates and clients a feeling of belonging during their experience with us. If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during their experience with us, please speak to their consultant.
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