Head of FP&A

Head of FP&A - Commercial Finance

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Location: Staffordshire
Salary: £90,000 + benefits
Robert Walters Group are supporting a leading business in Staffordshire with their recruitment of a Head of FP&A role to strengthen its commercial finance capability. This is an opportunity to build an FP&A function almost from the ground up, moving it into a truly value-adding, commercially focused decision-support role. You will initially operate as a hands-on, sleeves-rolled-up FP&A lead, owning the end-to-end process from data collection and validation, through to interpretation, storytelling and impact.
Key Responsibilities
Own commercial and FP&A data from multiple sources, ensuring it is accurate, understandable and decision-ready
Analyse profitability by product, entity and geography, identifying where value is created across the value chain
Develop regular management and commercial performance reporting (monthly, rolling forecasts, deep-dive analysis)
Act as a true business partner to sales, commercial and operational stakeholders
Provide insight into pricing, margin and competitive pressures in an increasingly global market
Navigate complex multi-entity and intercompany relationships where profit is added at different stages
Understand how and why data is produced - not just report the output
Help shape the longer-term FP&A roadmap, with the potential to build a dedicated team over time
Gain full oversight of existing data, create clarity, introduce regular reporting cadence and commercial insight
Embed FP&A into decision-making, improve margin visibility and lay foundations for function expansion
Candidate Profile
Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent) xwzovoh
Strong FP&A or commercial finance background within a technically complex business
Comfortable working closely with operational teams
Experience with multi-entity environments and intercompany dynamics
Commercially curious, detail-driven and able to see through the numbers
Collaborative, listens carefully to existing processes before challenging and improving them
International exposure is advantageous but not essential
Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates