Head of Financial Planning – Analysis

Role Overview

• Act as a key strategic partner to the Finance Director and the wider OEV leadership team, providing insightful financial analysis and commercial recommendations.
• Lead the annual budgeting, periodic re-forecasting, and long-range strategic planning processes.
• Develop and own complex financial models to support new business initiatives, pricing strategies for our products and investment decisions.
• Work closely with the financial controller to lead the production of timely and accurate monthly management reporting packs, providing clear commentary on performance against budget, forecast, and prior year.
• Develop and track key performance indicators (KPIs) focused on driver acquisition, fleet management, margin analysis, and operational efficiency.
• Conduct deep-dive variance analysis to understand the "why" behind the numbers and identify risks, opportunities, and emerging trends.
• Own and refine our core financial model, ensuring it accurately reflects the unique drivers of our salary sacrifice and leasing business.
• Manage and improve cash flow forecasting, working closely with treasury and accounting teams to optimise our working capital.
• Model various scenarios to stress-test our plans and inform strategic pivots.
• Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing FP&A team, fostering a culture of excellence, autonomy, and continuous improvement. Drive the enhancement of our FP&A systems, tools, and processes to improve efficiency, accuracy, and scalability as the business grows.
• Collaborate with the Data team to ensure data integrity and automate reporting where possible.

Requirements

• Proven experience in a senior FP&A leadership role, ideally within a high-growth, fast-paced environment.
• Ideally have experience in automotive, leasing, or financial services
• A fully qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA) with significant post-qualification experience.
• Demonstrable experience in building and leading a high-performing FP&A team.
• Expert-level financial modeller: You can build robust, scalable, and complex models, including experience working with SQL
• Commercially astute: You think like a business owner, quickly grasping complex commercial drivers and translating them into financial impacts.
• An exceptional communicator: You can simplify complex financial information and present it as a clear and compelling story to senior, non-finance stakeholders.
• Data-savvy: You are highly analytical and comfortable working with large datasets. Experience with BI tools (like Looker, Tableau, or Power BI) is a major plus.
• **Strong leadership capabilities: **You have experience managing projects and/or teams in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• **Leadership: **You have experience managing and developing highly skilled teams, preferably in a fast paced environment

Tech Stack

• SQL
• Tableau

Benefits

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