Head of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

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Role Overview

Role Overview

• Lead the FP&A function, providing financial leadership across planning, forecasting, budgeting, and performance analysis.
• Act as a strategic advisor to the Finance Director, Managing Director, and wider executive team, delivering financial insight to support key business decisions.
• Drive financial discipline across the business through effective stakeholder engagement and proactive forecasting.

• Own and evolve the global Sperry Marine enterprise-wide forecasting model, ensuring it remains aligned with business strategy and accurately reflects performance across all key financial statements (income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow).
• Oversee the consolidated monthly forecasting process, collaborating with regional controllers, sales, operations, and product teams to incorporate real-time insights and business assumptions.
• Lead the delivery of monthly financial performance reporting for business unit leaders and senior executives, providing clarity on key variances, risks, and opportunities.
• Partner with value stream owners and cost centre leads to ensure financial accountability and improve forecast accuracy, driving strategic actions where needed.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement across FP&A processes, identifying opportunities to streamline workflows, enhance data integrity, and reduce cycle times.
• Lead the adoption and integration of new planning tools, data platforms, and technologies to increase forecasting agility, automation, and decision-making quality across the organisation
• Manage the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) process, including scenario planning and financial modelling to support business planning cycles.
• Lead the translation of strategic plans into annual budgets, working closely with business partners to ensure alignment and ownership across departments.
• Maintain a structured process for cost centre budgeting, forecasting, and monitoring, ensuring visibility and accountability across support functions.

• A strategic thinker, able to connect financial insights to the bigger business picture.
• A collaborative leader, skilled at influencing and partnering with senior stakeholders across finance and the wider organisation.
• Analytically strong, comfortable working with complexity and ambiguity to produce actionable insights.
• A change agent, passionate about driving improvements in processes, models, and systems.

• Proven experience in a senior FP&A or finance leadership role, ideally in a capital intensive, multi-disciplinary business.
• Strong financial modelling and analytical skills, with a track record of delivering high-impact insight and performance reporting.
• Deep understanding of management accounting principles, forecasting processes, and financial planning cycles (US GAAP and IFRS 15/ASC 606 experience is advantageous).
• Experience leading budgeting and forecasting processes across multiple departments and geographies.
• Qualified accountant (e.g., ACCA, CIMA, ACA) with significant post-qualification experience.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with confidence in engaging senior leadership and external stakeholders.

• Competitive salary with annual reviews
• Hybrid working and option for a compressed working pattern (e.g., alternate Fridays off)
• Up to 8% employer pension contribution
• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Health and wellbeing benefits for you and your family
• Ongoing training, development, and career progression

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Finance and Sales

• Industries

  Maritime Transportation and Industrial Machinery Manufacturing

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