Senior FP&A Analyst
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Senior FP&A Analyst driving forecasting, commercial insight, and reporting for IFS’s AI-powered enterprise software business. Building Power Platform automation and AI workflows across UK and European finance operations.
Responsibilities:
- Act as a trusted finance business partner to leaders across the business
- Explain performance by connecting movements in revenue, cost, headcount and KPIs to commercial activity
- Provide analysis and recommendations for investment cases, pricing decisions and strategic initiatives
- Serve as the FP&A point of contact for UK and European stakeholders during the European day
- Represent FP&A with senior stakeholders and support the team when the Director, FP&A is unavailable
- Lead monthly and quarterly forecasting, owning inputs, assumptions and commentary
- Build and maintain models for recurring revenue, backlog, ARR, ACV, churn, retention, costs, headcount and long-range planning
- Support annual planning and identify risks and opportunities
- Own management reporting and dashboards with clear narratives
- Analyse variances, trends, risks and opportunities across revenue, operating expenses, headcount and KPIs
- Partner with Accounting to ensure accurate and consistent reporting
- Query finance and operational data directly
- Build and maintain automated reporting using Power Query, Power BI and Power Automate
- Design agentic workflows to reduce manual effort in reporting and forecasting
- Use AI in day-to-day analysis and improve the FP&A team's data and AI capabilities
- Drive continuous improvements in efficiency, quality and capability
- Mentor and develop junior FP&A team members
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or a related field, or a qualified / part-qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
- 4-6 years of progressive FP&A, financial analysis or strategic finance experience
- Strong commercial acumen and a track record of influencing decisions
- Advanced Excel and financial modelling
- Solid grounding in accounting principles and financial statements
- Experience working with large data sets and advanced data querying, including SQL, Power Query / M or equivalent
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Power Platform, including Power BI, Power Query and Power Automate
- Practical experience embedding AI into finance workflows
- Ability to communicate insights and influence credibly at senior level
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-growth environment and drive continuous improvement
- Ability to work autonomously in a distributed, cross-time-zone team
- Desirable: senior or lead analyst experience, mentoring, or standing in for a finance lead
- Desirable: experience building AI agents or agentic workflows using Copilot Studio, Power Automate, Claude, or Python-based agents
- Desirable: Workday Adaptive Planning or comparable EPM / planning tool experience
- Desirable: Python or similar scripting for data manipulation
- Desirable: SaaS or technology sector experience, including ARR, ACV, churn, backlog, and project/services revenue recognition
Benefits:
- Flexible paid time off, including sick and holiday
- Medical, dental, & vision insurance
- Flexible spending accounts
- Life insurance and disability benefits
- Tuition assistance
- Community involvement and volunteering events
- Bonus
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