VP, FP&A

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Develop and sustain the comprehensive financial model encompassing pipeline, sales capacity, hiring, production, revenue timing, margins, investment, and cash flow.

• Convert corporate strategy into financial objectives, annual budgets, monthly forecasts, and quarterly assessments in collaboration with the CFO and CEO.

• Manage the complete planning process, which includes templates, deadlines, challenge sessions, consolidation, version control, and forecasting calendars.

• Provide reconciled monthly management and board reports featuring budget and forecast analysis, cash implications, risks, and recommendations.

• Set up actuals handover procedures with Accounting and Controlling.

• Examine product, contract, and customer economics, focusing on production costs, gross margin, cohort performance, and margin drivers.

• Connect sales forecasts to contracts, delivery milestones, recognized revenue, and customer payments.

• Monitor budgets, actual and committed expenditures, remaining funds, and anticipated overruns.

• Assess hiring and investment proposals for complete first-year cash and ongoing annual cost capture.

• Maintain continuous short-term cash forecasts and runway views in collaboration with Treasury.

• Convert plan variances into recommendations for funding, deferrals, reductions, or halts; keep decision logs and approval documentation.

• Analyze quarterly spending ratios and cost trends, providing actionable recommendations.

• Prepare financial content for board and investor meetings while ensuring due-diligence-ready models and documentation are maintained.

• Recruit, onboard, and mentor a small FP&A team across various locations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in constructing a financial model from the ground up that withstands investor scrutiny.

• Background in leading or directly supporting the financial aspects of a significant funding round.

• Proficiency in translating funding strategies into targets, budgets, and corrective measures.

• Capacity to defend assumptions before boards and investors, while maintaining due-diligence documentation.

• Exceptional judgment in prioritization and decision-making, with a focus on deadlines and cash risks.

• Aptitude for constructively challenging budgets and identifying omitted or duplicated expenses.

• Experience utilizing reconciled figures, documented definitions, and controlled assumptions.

• Commercial insight into manufacturing, government or defense procurement, deployment costs, and multi-currency operations.

• Experience managing analysts, reviewing their work, establishing priorities, and fostering independent ownership.

• Hands-on approach with low ego, direct communication style, and comfort with scrutiny, incomplete data, and sensitive information.

• Willingness to validate AI-assisted outputs and modify and explain the model in real-time.

• Nice-to-have: experience in defense, aerospace, hardware, or complex manufacturing sectors.

• Nice-to-have: experience in establishing an FP&A function in a rapidly growing, post-funding organization.

• Nice-to-have: experience working across multiple entities, countries, or distributed finance teams.

• Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the country for which they are applying.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.

• Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.

• Flexible working arrangements and a supportive work culture.