FP&A Systems Implementation Lead

FP&A Systems Implementation Project Lead.

4-6 months temporary contract.

Your Job

The FP&A System Implementation Lead will own the FP&A workstream for the implementation of the new FP&A system, ensuring the solution is aligned to business requirements, supports future-state FP&A processes and maintains financial integrity.

The role will act as the key FP&A interface with Technology, stakeholders and the implementation partner, leading requirements definition, process and data design, testing, business sign-off, go-live readiness and transition to BAU. The role will also support change adoption and identify opportunities to improve automation, reporting quality, control and efficiency across FP&A.

Duties

• Own the FP&A workstream for the implementation of the new FP&A system, defining requirements, processes, data structures and controls to ensure alignment with business needs and ensuring financial integrity.

• Act as a key Finance point of contact for the implementation partner, ensuring deliverables are understood, challenged where appropriate and aligned to agreed business outcomes.

• Lead engagement with Finance, Technology and other key stakeholders to gather, challenge and prioritise requirements, ensuring the solution is outcome-led and aligned to business needs.

• Define and embed future-state FP&A processes, workflows, ownership and controls, ensuring the new system supports efficient planning, forecasting, reporting and analysis.

• Oversee the design and validation of key financial data structures, including chart of accounts, cost centre hierarchies, allocation logic, planning dimensions, reporting outputs and reconciliations to source systems.

• Coordinate finance testing, reconciliation and business sign-off, ensuring system outputs are accurate, controlled and fit for use before deployment.

• Support change management, communications, user training and adoption activities to ensure the new FP&A system is successfully embedded into business-as-usual processes.

• Lead finance input into go-live readiness and transition to BAU, identifying opportunities for further automation, reporting enhancement and process simplification.

Skills & Experience

• Demonstrable experience working on finance change or transformation initiatives, including implementation or enhancement of financial systems.
• Strong business analysis skills, including requirements gathering, process mapping and translating Finance needs into system requirements.
• Experience supporting system testing, data migration, reconciliations and user acceptance testing.
• Ability to manage senior stakeholders, challenge requirements and influence decisions across Finance, Technology and vendors.
• Strong understanding of planning models, reporting hierarchies, financial data structures and system controls.
• Experience supporting change adoption, training and transition from project delivery into BAU.
• Experience in FP&A, financial planning, forecasting and performance analysis within a complex organisation, ideally in financial services.
• Understanding of end‑to‑end FP&A processes, financial controls, data structures and management reporting requirements.
• Experience working with modern FP&A, planning or performance management systems.
• High attention to detail and a strong focus on financial integrity, governance and control.

Qualifications

• Fully qualified accountant (e.g. ACA, ACCA or CIMA, or international equivalent).
• Strong grounding in financial planning and performance management.