A high-growth, PE-backed infrastructure business is expanding its finance function and seeking a hands-on Head of FP&A to strengthen forecasting, modelling, reporting and performance visibility. With major capital projects underway and a lean team in place, this role will bring structure, improve financial processes and support the next phase of large-scale growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the FP&A function, enhancing forecasting, modelling and business performance visibility.
- Develop and improve complex operational and financial models, creating a scalable modelling framework.
- Build KPI dashboards and reporting structures to deliver a single source of truth.
- Improve capex tracking, project accounting and WIP reporting across large capital programmes.
- Partner with commercial, project and operational teams to identify risks, opportunities and performance drivers.
- Strengthen supplier, project and spend analytics across a high-volume environment.
- Support debt-raising and investor reporting with high-quality analysis.
- Coach and develop the FP&A analyst; assist with onboarding new finance team hires.
- Implement improved systems, processes and controls in a fast-moving environment.
- Provide hands-on financial leadership while helping mature the FP&A function.
Requirements
- Fully qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent).
- Experience in capital projects or other capex-intensive sectors.
- Exposure to PE-backed environments and investor-level reporting.
- Strong FP&A leadership with proven modelling and forecasting expertise.
- Ability to build and improve complex financial models.
- Comfortable in high-growth, entrepreneurial settings with a hands-on approach.
- Experience enhancing systems, reporting frameworks and data structures.
- Strong commercial acumen and cross-functional partnering skills.
- Familiarity with high-volume suppliers, invoicing and capex flows.