A high-profile, central FP&A leadership role responsible for driving group-wide financial planning, reporting, and insight, supporting Executive and Board decision-making. The role leads standardisation, automation, and continuous improvement of financial processes across the organisation.
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Requirements
What You'll Do:
Reporting & Insight
- Own and lead global management reporting, including monthly accounts and Board/ExCo reporting.
- Deliver clear variance analysis, insights, and remedial actions.
- Develop standardised, automated reporting (Power BI, AI-driven).
- Oversee group and departmental reporting packs and external reporting (e.g. banks).
Planning & Forecasting
- Lead annual budget and quarterly forecast cycles (end-to-end ownership).
- Deliver reforecasts highlighting risks and opportunities.
- Own multi-year financial model (incl. balance sheet and cashflow).
- Support strategic planning, business cases, and scenario modelling.
- Provide going concern and audit support.
- Firm-level business case scenario modelling centred around strategic decision making opportunities and risks.
Business Partnering
- Ensure effective Finance Business Partner support across the business
- Provide challenge and insight to improve decision-making.
- Lead on financial evaluation of investment and strategic initiatives.
- Build strong and positive relationships with budget holders and senior managers, providing the necessary assistance and professional advice to assist them with the financial aspects of their duties.
- Ensure leaders understand and ‘own’ their numbers and receive analysis that informs and supports effective decision making.
Systems, Processes & Controls
- Own FP&A processes, systems, and continuous improvement agenda.
- Drive efficiency, automation, and self-service reporting capability.
- Ensure data integrity and robust financial controls in collaboration with Financial Control.
Leadership & Ad hoc
- Lead and develop a team of 5 (Cardiff-based).
- Deputise for the Group Commercial Finance Director as required.
- Handle ad hoc commercial and strategic analysis.
Who You Are:
Experience
- Senior FP&A leader, ideally from professional services / highly disciplined multi-geography businesses.
- Strong experience in:
- Complex budgeting & forecasting environments.
- Management reporting for senior stakeholders.
- Strategic financial planning and modelling.
Skills
- Highly analytical, able to translate financial data into business insight.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills (incl. senior leadership).
- Proven team leadership and development capability.
- Advanced systems expertise (Power BI, AI tools, Excel modelling).
- Ability to balance multiple priorities and deliver at pace.
- Good written and oral communication skills, able to communicate clearly, concisely, accurately and in ways that promote understanding, to both finance and non-finance specialists.
- understanding, to both finance and non-finance specialists.
- Highly organised individual.
Qualifications
- Professionally qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA / CIPFA).
- Experience in a group-level role with ongoing professional development.
- Driving standardisation and automation across FP&A.
- Providing clear, decision-focused insight to senior stakeholders.
- Embedding strong financial ownership across the business.
- Enhancing forecast accuracy and strategic planning capability.
- Building a high-performing FP&A team and function.
Benefits
What We offer:
- Control Risks offers a competitively positioned compensation and benefits package that is transparent and summarised in the full job offer.
- We operate a discretionary global bonus scheme that incentivises, and rewards individuals based on company and individual performance.
- Control Risks supports hybrid working arrangements, wherever possible, that emphasise the value of in-person time together - in the office and with our clients - while continuing to support flexible and remote working.
- As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us and are fully committed to equal treatment, free from discrimination, of all candidates throughout our recruitment process
Control Risks is committed to a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age or veteran status”
If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made in order to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know and we will be happy to accommodate your needs.
£100k - £120k per annum
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