Interim Group FP&A Manager

Interim Group FP&A Manager

£800-£900 per day

Inside IR35

Initial six-month contract with potential to become permanent

London

We are supporting a rapidly growing international renewable-energy business in the appointment of an Interim Group FP&A Manager. The organisation develops, acquires and operates utility-scale solar, onshore wind and battery-storage assets and is expanding its portfolio across several international markets.

Reporting directly to the CFO, this is a senior and highly visible appointment responsible for strengthening the group’s financial planning, forecasting and management-reporting capability. The successful candidate will establish robust group-wide processes, improve the quality of financial information and provide meaningful challenge and insight to operating entities and senior leadership.

The role requires a combination of strong technical accounting, sophisticated FP&A capability and the commercial judgement needed to operate effectively within a growing, asset-intensive organisation.

Key responsibilities

• Establish and maintain accurate financial forecasting across the group and its operating entities.
• Build, maintain and review integrated three-statement forecasts at subsidiary and consolidated-group level.
• Design and implement annual budgeting templates, updated outlooks and group-wide planning processes.
• Coordinate submissions from international subsidiaries and challenge the quality of their assumptions and forecasts.
• Analyse actual performance against budget and forecast across the income statement, balance sheet and cash flow.
• Prepare monthly and quarterly reporting for executive management and the Board.
• Support the development of long-term business plans and assess the impact of changes to operational assumptions.
• Partner with business development, M&A and treasury teams on major transactions and group forecasts.
• Monitor debt covenants and perform sensitivity analysis around operational and financial assumptions.
• Support audit requirements, including impairment reviews and going-concern analysis.
• Work closely with the group reporting team to understand results and maintain consistency between reporting and forecasting.
• Support the implementation of forecasting technology and wider ERP and reporting improvements.
• Develop scalable FP&A processes capable of supporting continued international growth.

Required experience

• Fully qualified accountant: ACA, ACCA, ACMA or equivalent.
• Significant FP&A experience within a multinational, multi-entity organisation.
• Strong experience operating at group or holding-company level.
• Advanced accounting knowledge, including consolidation accounting.
• Excellent budgeting, forecasting, management-reporting and variance-analysis experience.
• Advanced Excel and financial-modelling capability, including integrated three-statement models.
• Experience working with ERP and forecasting systems.
• Strong commercial judgement and the confidence to challenge senior stakeholders and operating businesses.
• Experience preparing executive and Board-level reports and presentations.
• Exposure to energy, infrastructure, mining or another capital-intensive and asset-based sector is highly desirable.

Experience within a private-equity-backed, acquisitive or high-growth organisation would be advantageous, as would previous involvement in M&A, corporate finance or debt-funded environments.