FP&A Manager - 12 Month FTC (Maternity Cover)

We're looking for an FP&A Manager to lead a team of two analysts and serve as the trusted finance partner for our COO's leadership team and operational squads. You'll own cost-to-serve reporting, forecasting, and budgeting across a diverse portfolio, turning complex financial data into clear, actionable insights that drive real business decisions. As comfortable presenting to the board as you are working alongside operational teams, you'll bring commercial rigour, pragmatic challenge, and a drive to continuously improve the way we work.

This is a 12 Month FTC requiring people to attend the office in Central London 2 days a week.

• →Lead and develop a team of two FP&A analysts. Setting technical standards, coaching on financial judgement and building out the operations FP&A capacity into the go-to partner for the COO’s leadership team & operational squads in product ops.
• →Leading team to deliver accurate and timely weekly CtS reporting showing key drivers to performance, ideally through optimised processes through automated reporting utilising AI where appropriate
• →Ownership for the team delivering robust, understood and challenging targets across multiple cost P&L lines. Including all cost to serve, central expenses and CAPEX.
• →Contribute to wider FP&A & wider Finance team goals, supporting cross-team projects.
• →Partner COO and operations team on executing initiatives to drive real business value.
• →FP&A lead for Operations strategic pods & operations squads. Providing exceptional business partnering to the squad and acting as a trusted advisor on decision making and prioritisation calls. Executing commercial, financial and pragmatism in recommendations and challenge.
• →Lead and shape monthly forecasting across cost to serve metrics across a diverse portfolio including multiple geographies, brands and treatment types. Drive unit economic insight that informs pricing, supplier negotiations and operational investment prioritisation & decisions. 
• →Support prioritisation of key projects in partnered areas.
• →Maximise the impact of team outputs by adapting communication style for diverse stakeholder groups, including the Executive Leadership Team (ELT), the board, operational leadership, and the broader operational team.
• →Own P&L narrative for cost to serve. Lead the senior FP&A ops analyst at month end ensuring they produce high quality variance analysis and translating this into actionable insights for the COO’s Ops leadership team.

• 6+ years PQE working in a commercial finance or consulting environment.
• Strong data literacy and manipulation skills, comfortable working with large data sets.
• Proven track record of cross functional collaboration and project delivery.
• Demonstrated ability in forecasting and quantitative problem-solving, with the ability to communicate simply and candidly.
• Experience navigating ambiguity, and self-motivated to deliver autonomously.
• Relevant experience of working with an online D2C business model preferred.
• Commercially minded finance leader able to translate complex data into actionable insight for non finance executives.
• Good functional understanding of financial and BI systems and tools.
• Strong stakeholder management, people management, and mentoring skills.