Role title: FP&A Manager
Location: Fully remote with occasional travel to Eastbourne or London. The position is fully remote within the UK, but flexibility is required to support US time zones and international teams when needed.
Benefits:
- Salary between £65,000 and £70,000
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Private healthcare
- Life insurance
- Participation in equity event incentive
Reporting: Group Finance Director
Company: The company is a leading international licensing business, working with major studios to enable compliant film and content screenings across commercial and public venues worldwide. Backed by private equity, the business is in a strong growth phase, operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment with ambitious plans for the years ahead.
The culture is collaborative, delivery focused and people led. The company combines high standards, giving individuals autonomy, trust and the opportunity to develop alongside the business
Role:
The FP&A Manager is a senior, hands-on role with responsibility for leading financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and analysis for the group. You will act as the strategic finance partner to senior leadership, providing insight and challenge to drive performance and support decision‑making at all levels.
This role has a strong international dimension. You’ll collaborate regularly with stakeholders in the US and other territories, ensuring financial plans and analysis are aligned across the group and support the group’s global growth ambitions
A core part of the role is turning data into decisions: you will be using BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Datarails) to create dashboards and executive‑ready insights; apply scenario and sensitivity analysis to quantify risks and opportunities; and practice effective data storytelling to communicate complex findings to non‑finance stakeholders. Comfort working with large, multi‑source datasets, ensuring data quality and governance, and automating repeatable reporting is essential.
This opportunity is ideally suited to someone with a background in FP&A, commercial finance, or business partnering who enjoys complexity, pace, and leveraging data to shape strategy in a fast‑moving, international, PE‑backed environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the annual budgeting and forecasting process, partnering with department heads and international teams to ensure alignment with group strategy.
- Develop and maintain robust financial models to support scenario planning, long-range forecasting, and strategic initiatives
- Prepare and deliver regular management reporting and board packs, including variance analysis, performance tracking, and actionable insights for senior stakeholders
- Analyse business trends, KPIs, and financial results to identify risks, opportunities, and areas for improvement.
- Support the development and roll-out of FP&A reporting systems (Power BI, Datarails) and process improvements to enhance reporting quality and efficiency
Business Partnering & Stakeholder Engagement
- Act as a key financial advisor to senior management, providing guidance on cost control, resource allocation, and commercial decision-making.
- Partner with Marketing to evaluate campaign ROI, budget allocation, and customer acquisition costs, providing financial insights to optimise spend and maximise impact.
- Work closely with Technology to assess investment in systems and digital initiatives, support project budgeting, and analyse the financial implications of technology transformation
- Engage with other business functions to understand their strategic priorities, provide tailored financial analysis, and help drive informed decision-making across the organization.
Process Improvement:
- Ability to design scalable processes for a growing international group.
Technical skills:
Professional Qualification: ACA, ACCA, CIMA qualified (or equivalent), with a strong technical and analytical foundation. QBE will also be considered.
Financial Planning & Analysis: Proven experience in budgeting, forecasting, and management reporting for international, multi-entity groups.
Commercial Finance Acumen: Strong understanding of commercial finance and commercial drivers
Business Partnering & Stakeholder Engagement:
- Business Partnering: Confident working alongside Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Studio Relations to provide financial guidance on commercial initiatives.
- Translate performance into decisions: Convert complex datasets and KPIs into clear, action‑oriented insights for commercial, operations, and country teams.
- Influence & challenge: Provide constructive challenge on budgets, forecasts, pricing/margin and investment cases; quantify options with scenario analysis and ROI.
- Planning ownership with functions: Lead and coordinate cross‑functional planning cycles across international territories; ensure alignment to group strategy and PE value‑creation levers.
Data Skills:
- Highly proficient in Excel for financial modelling, scenario analysis, and automation.
- Hands-on experience with business intelligence tools to build dashboards and deliver actionable insights.
- Comfortable working with large, complex datasets from multiple sources, ensuring data quality and integrity.
Process Improvement: Demonstrated ability to drive process improvements and implement scalable, data-driven solutions.
Project Support: experience in business transformation and data projects
Cultural Attributes:
- An agile positive mindset, comfortable adapting to change and working at pace
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management across international teams
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, PE-backed environment
- Proactive approach to process improvement and scalability
- Resilient under pressure with a focus on delivering to tight deadlines
- Committed to a culture of cooperation and mutual support within cross-functional teams
Desirable
- Experience supporting M&A, integration, or business transformation projects is a plus.