FP&A Analyst Corporate Functions

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, and reporting.
• Own P&L performance; provide financial analysis, variance reporting, and actionable stakeholder insights.
• Partner with executive leaders, business owners, and functional heads on strategy, investments, and performance improvement.
• Drive cost management, cost ownership, financial transparency, and accountability.
• Build models, scenario analyses, business cases, investment appraisals, and benefits tracking.
• Use AI, automation, and digital technologies to improve finance processes and insights.
• Challenge spending proposals and assumptions to ensure resources deliver value and align with priorities.
• Advise on vendor contracts, software licensing, managed services, outsourcing, and procurement.
• Maintain investment governance covering project funding, change requests, and benefits realization.
• Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reviews and identify risks, opportunities, and actions.
• Support employee and contractor headcount planning and budget alignment.
• Improve governance frameworks, controls, planning, reporting, cost optimization, and financial discipline.

Qualifications and experience

• Significant experience in FP&A, financial controlling, finance business partnering, or corporate finance.
• Experience managing budgets, forecasts, headcount planning, and financial governance.
• Strong experience developing business cases, investment appraisals, and financial models.
• Experience supporting senior leadership and influencing strategic decisions.
• Ability to manage complex financial data and produce meaningful performance insights.
• Advanced Excel and financial systems knowledge.
• Professional accounting qualification such as ACCA, CIMA, ACA, or equivalent.
• Experience in a large international organization.
• Experience leveraging AI-enabled tools and digital technologies for financial analysis, reporting, forecasting, or decision support.

Additional capabilities

• Strong stakeholder partnering and influencing skills, with the ability to communicate across levels.
• Excellent financial modeling, planning, forecasting, and analytical capabilities.
• Able to translate complex financial information into clear, actionable business insights.
• Commercially minded, organized, detail-oriented, collaborative, and adaptable.
• Able to manage multiple priorities, challenge constructively, and improve processes and cost efficiency.