Head of FP&A and Financial Modelling

This fast growing business in West Yorkshire is now looking to hire a Head of FP&A & Financial Modelling into a brand new role to take ownership of financial modelling, planning processes, and analytical insight across the organisation. This is a high-impact role for someone who combines deep financial modelling expertise with strong commercial awareness. The successful candidate will act as the central point of excellence for modelling and planning, supporting senior leadership with high-quality, decision-ready analysis. You will work closely with senior finance leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to strengthen forecasting capability, develop robust financial models, and improve planning discipline across the organisation. This role offers the opportunity to take ownership of the financial modelling and planning capability within a growing organisation.This role would be ideally suited someone with experience in corporate finance/deals/advisory within Big 4, who enjoys building robust analytical frameworks, improving financial planning processes, and partnering with senior leadership on important strategic decisions.Key duties will include:

• Design, build, and maintain integrated financial models covering P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow.
• Develop driver-based planning and forecasting models to support operational and strategic decision-making.
• Produce scenario, sensitivity, and downside/upside analysis for senior leadership and board-level discussions.
• Lead financial modelling to support investment decisions, pricing analysis, and strategic initiatives.
• Coordinate the budgeting, forecasting, and medium-term planning cycles, including templates, models, and timelines.
• Maintain a structured assumptions framework, ensuring consistency and transparency across planning processes.
• Consolidate inputs from finance and operational stakeholders into coherent, model-driven outputs.
• Ensure a single source of analytical truth across budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning.
• Continuously improve planning processes to increase efficiency, discipline, and forecast accuracy.
• Develop unit economics, cohort analysis, and profitability models to enhance performance insight.
• Use Excel as the primary modelling platform, with supporting tools such as Power BI or similar platforms for analysis and visualisation.
• Help define data structures, financial metrics, and analytical frameworks that can be embedded into BI or FP&A systems over time.
• Support senior finance leadership with clear, structured analysis to inform decision-making.

The successful candidate will:

• Have a strong background in FP&A, corporate finance, and financial modelling-led roles - Essential
• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or equivalent analytical background - Essential
• Proven experience managing budgeting, forecasting, and medium-term planning processes - Essential
• Advanced Excel modelling capability, including integrated multi-statement models (P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow) - Essential
• Experience using Power BI or similar analytics tools - Essential
• Strong experience supporting investment appraisal, scenario analysis, and strategic planning - Essential
• Comfortable working with evolving data environments and building forward-looking analytical frameworks - Essential

What's on offer?

• Hybrid working pattern
• Newly created standalone role to build and scale autonomously, working directly alongside the FD
• The opportunity to progress your career within a fast-growing organisation