Zanda
Head of FP&A | SaaS | PE Backed
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Zanda is an Executive Search Partner
Zanda is an Executive Search partner working exclusively with high-growth start-ups and scale-ups as they strengthen their organisations with senior talent. Zanda partners with VCs, Founders, CEOs, and CFOs to deliver critical leadership appointments, on both an interim and permanent basis, at pivotal moments of growth.
Who's the Business
We are supporting a Private Equity–backed, high-growth B2B SaaS company headquartered in Exeter, currently at c.£5m ARR and entering an ambitious scaling phase. With recent investment from a leading UK mid-market Private Equity firm, the business is focused on accelerating growth towards £25m ARR and beyond.
What You'll Do
This is a high-impact, hands-on FP&A leadership role, partnering directly with the CFO and Financial Controller. You will bring structure, analytical rigour and commercial clarity to forecasting, SaaS performance insight and board reporting, becoming a genuine driver of growth across the business.
Strategic Finance
- You will partner closely with the CFO, owning integrated three-statement models and leading scenario analysis across growth, pricing and investment decisions.
- You will turn complex financial data into clear, board-ready insight and support investor reporting.
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Forecasting & Planning
- You will own the rolling forecast, improving accuracy and strengthening variance analysis.
- You will align operational drivers — including pipeline, churn and hiring — to financial outputs, while supporting a robust annual budgeting process.
SaaS Metrics & Commercial Insight
- As the internal SaaS metrics lead, you will oversee ARR/MRR bridges, retention analysis, cohort reporting and unit economics (CAC, LTV, payback).
- Most importantly, you will translate data into actionable commercial insight that drives confident decision-making.
Data & Systems
- You will bring advanced Excel modelling capability and be a confident user of BI tools and dashboards.
- Comfortable working directly with raw CRM, billing and finance data, you will interrogate, reconcile and resolve data integrity issues where required.
- You will also strengthen KPI tracking and build scalable reporting infrastructure to support continued growth.
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Experience Required
- 4–8+ years in FP&A, Commercial Finance, or Transaction Services.
- Strong SaaS experience with hands-on recurring revenue modelling.
- Experience in £3–15m ARR scale-up or high-growth businesses preferred.
- Proven ability to build integrated three-statement models from scratch.
- Board-level reporting experience, ideally in a PE-backed or investor-led environment.
- Deep understanding of growth drivers, retention dynamics, unit economics, and capital efficiency.
- Confident modelling pricing, hiring, and go-to-market investment decisions.
- Able to challenge senior stakeholders constructively and communicate complex analysis clearly.
- High ownership mentality, commercially sharp, pragmatic, and comfortable building processes from first principles.
- Calm under pressure, particularly around board cycles and investor scrutiny.
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