Buro Happold Engineer India Private Limited
Global Financial Planning & Analysis Manager
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Can you turn data into direction? Join Buro Happold as our Global FP&A Manager and shape business performance through insight.
This person can be based in Bath on a hybrid working model.
At Buro Happold, we're committed to creating a more sustainable, equitable, and resilient world. As a global consultancy of engineers, designers, and advisers, we bring together diverse expertise to solve complex challenges and deliver transformative outcomes for our clients and communities.
We're looking for a Global FP&A Manager - Business Performance & Insight to join our Finance team. This is a high-impact role that will help shape the future of our global Financial Planning & Analysis capability, providing strategic insight, driving performance, and supporting decision-making across the business.
About The Role
Reporting to the Director of FP&A, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing Buro Happold's global planning, forecasting, and performance management capability. Working closely with senior leaders and finance teams around the world, you'll transform data into actionable insights that support strategic decisions and improve business performance.
This role offers an exciting opportunity to move beyond traditional reporting and become a trusted business partner, helping leaders identify opportunities, manage risks, and deliver sustainable growth.
What You'll Be Doing
Strategic Planning & Performance Management
- Support the translation of business strategy into measurable financial and operational objectives.
- Develop insightful performance measures and KPIs that enable leaders to assess progress against strategic goals.
- Identify opportunities to improve growth, profitability, utilisation, productivity, and overall business performance.
- Deliver recommendations that drive measurable business outcomes.
Planning, Forecasting & Scenario Modelling
- Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning activities.
- Develop driver-based models that improve visibility and predictability of business performance.
- Deliver scenario planning and sensitivity analysis to support strategic decision-making.
- Analyse trends and business drivers to continually improve forecast accuracy.
Insight & Decision Support
- Transform complex financial and operational data into clear, actionable insights.
- Support investment decisions, strategic initiatives, and business case development.
- Identify emerging risks and opportunities, providing recommendations and mitigation strategies.
- Deliver forward-looking analysis for executive stakeholders.
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Business Partnering
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior business leaders, regional finance teams, and key stakeholders.
- Challenge assumptions constructively and promote evidence-based decision-making.
- Strengthen alignment between operational performance, resource planning, and strategic priorities.
- Build strong collaborative relationships across a global business.
Executive Reporting
- Develop executive-level reporting, presentations, and compelling performance narratives.
- Clearly communicate trends, opportunities, risks, and business impacts.
- Leverage external benchmarking and market intelligence to provide strategic context.
Continuous Improvement
- Support the development of best-in-class FP&A processes and governance.
- Drive standardisation, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Improve data quality, consistency, and organisational performance visibility.
What We Are Looking For
We're looking for an experienced and commercially minded finance professional who combines strong analytical capability with the ability to influence and partner effectively across a complex global business.
You'll Bring
- A professional finance qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
- Significant experience in FP&A, commercial finance, business performance, or a related field.
- Strong forecasting, planning, financial modelling, and analytical skills.
- A proven ability to generate meaningful insights from complex financial and operational data.
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing capabilities.
- Advanced Excel skills and experience with reporting and analytics tools, ideally Power BI.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage senior stakeholders.
- A strategic mindset, commercial awareness, and a passion for continuous improvement.
Why Join Buro Happold?
At Buro Happold, we believe in creating a better, more sustainable world. You’ll be part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We offer a supportive environment where your contributions make a real difference.
What We Offer You
- Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world’s most respected consultancies.
- Hybrid working arrangements.
- Attractive salary and benefits package including, private medical insurance, life assurance and income protection.
- 10% Car allowance.
- Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.
- Generous company pension scheme.
- Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts.
- Enhanced parenthood leave policies.
- 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month.
- A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you.
- Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions.
- A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities. A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring.
- An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional.
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A place for everyone
Buro Happold values individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.
Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.
We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.
Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.
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