A rapidly growing consultancy business based in the Esher area (Surrey / South West London) is looking for a strategic and highly motivated Financial Planning & Analysis / FP&A Manager. This is a pivotal role responsible for the day-to-day accounts function and acting as deputy to the CFO, as needed. Operating within a dynamic small-company culture, you will be involved in shaping business strategy while maintaining hands-on oversight of reporting packs, month-end processes, and transactional elements. This hands-on role requires a unique blend of technical expertise, and the gravitas to build influential relationships with the senior leadership team & business department leaders. Duties will include: owning the annual budget, rolling forecast, and long-range planning processes, and ensuring alignment between reporting and forecasting developing robust financial models improving forecast accuracy and timeliness delivering monthly management reporting, including variance analysis vs budget and forecast providing clear insight into revenue, margin, cost drivers, and working capital translating financial data into concise, actionable commentary for the CFO and Board acting as a trusted finance partner to Divisional leaders The ideal candidate will be a qualified professional (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with approximately 3 years Post-Qualified Experience (PQE), preferably stemming from a professional services background. You must possess advanced financial modelling skills and the confidence to communicate complex data clearly and effectively to CFO & Board. As a leader, you will manage a small transactional team and oversee month-end reporting cycles. Please note, you will need to undertake transactional duties as needed. Good knowledge of Excel, Outlook and Word is also required. This is a key leadership role and an opportunity to be part of an established growing brand that is enhancing business value for a future strategic transaction. This Financial Planning & Analysis / FP&A Manager role is paying up to £60,000 plus benefits. This is a hybrid position where you will be expected to be in the office 3 days per week.
Apr 02, 2026
Full time
A rapidly growing consultancy business based in the Esher area (Surrey / South West London) is looking for a strategic and highly motivated Financial Planning & Analysis / FP&A Manager. This is a pivotal role responsible for the day-to-day accounts function and acting as deputy to the CFO, as needed. Operating within a dynamic small-company culture, you will be involved in shaping business strategy while maintaining hands-on oversight of reporting packs, month-end processes, and transactional elements. This hands-on role requires a unique blend of technical expertise, and the gravitas to build influential relationships with the senior leadership team & business department leaders. Duties will include: owning the annual budget, rolling forecast, and long-range planning processes, and ensuring alignment between reporting and forecasting developing robust financial models improving forecast accuracy and timeliness delivering monthly management reporting, including variance analysis vs budget and forecast providing clear insight into revenue, margin, cost drivers, and working capital translating financial data into concise, actionable commentary for the CFO and Board acting as a trusted finance partner to Divisional leaders The ideal candidate will be a qualified professional (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with approximately 3 years Post-Qualified Experience (PQE), preferably stemming from a professional services background. You must possess advanced financial modelling skills and the confidence to communicate complex data clearly and effectively to CFO & Board. As a leader, you will manage a small transactional team and oversee month-end reporting cycles. Please note, you will need to undertake transactional duties as needed. Good knowledge of Excel, Outlook and Word is also required. This is a key leadership role and an opportunity to be part of an established growing brand that is enhancing business value for a future strategic transaction. This Financial Planning & Analysis / FP&A Manager role is paying up to £60,000 plus benefits. This is a hybrid position where you will be expected to be in the office 3 days per week.
Macildowie Recruitment and Retention
Northampton, Northamptonshire
About the Role: Are you a finance expert who thrives in a collaborative, dynamic environment? Do you have a passion for driving business performance through data-driven insights and cost-saving initiatives? If so, this could be the role for you! As a Finance Business Partner within the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team, you'll play a crucial role in shaping key financial decisions, supporting business areas to optimise costs, and delivering impactful financial insights. You will work closely with senior leaders, offering strategic advice, challenging assumptions, and helping the company make smarter financial decisions. What You'll Do: Be the Finance Lead for key areas of the business, owning the finance relationship and advising on key decisions. Drive cost-saving initiatives by identifying opportunities to improve efficiencies and supporting the business through cost reduction strategies. Own financial forecasting and budgeting processes, ensuring forecasts are realistic and based on solid analysis. Provide financial insight to senior managers, offering expertise in understanding financial data, spotting risks, and highlighting opportunities. Collaborate with non-finance teams to help them understand their financials, track spending, and improve performance. Support cost management (FinOps) by analysing and implementing strategies to drive efficiency and cost transparency. Manage and mentor junior team members , helping them develop and grow in their roles. What We're Looking For: Commercial Finance Expertise : You'll need to be able to understand complex financial data and translate it into simple, actionable insights for non-finance stakeholders. Cost Consciousness : A key part of your role will be to challenge spending, identify cost-saving opportunities, and track progress on cost-saving initiatives. Strong Com munication Skills : You must be able to explain financial concepts clearly and confidently to senior non-finance managers. Proactive Problem Solver : You'll need to spot issues before they arise and take ownership of finding solutions. Team Player : You'll be part of a collaborative team and work closely with others across the business. Skills : Strong Excel skills, good PowerPoint/Word skills, with experience in financial planning and analysis. Qualifications : Part-qualified ACA/CIMA/ACCA with 3-5 years of experience in a similar role. Please put your home postcode on your CV when applying. Our recruitment tech uses this to make sure your CV is reviewed by the relevant consultant, for the relevant job(s), in the relevant geography. Macildowie are a recruitment business working on behalf of a client to recruit this role. Your personal data may be forwarded to that client company as part of the application process. If you would like information on how we will process your data please go to our website (macildowie) and view our fair processing notices which are located at the bottom of the page under privacy policies. Within the fair processing notice for Candidates there is guidance on how to amend your contact preferences or exercise your rights relating to personal data. We can't provide direct links as email address and website urls within our job adverts are removed by some of the websites on which we advertise. Macildowie is a specialist recruitment consultancy with a rich history of enhancing the careers of professionals across the Midlands and the Northern Home Counties. We have an unrivalled understanding of the local market place and recruit for the majority of the region's premier employers. To search for all of our live jobs please visit us at macildowie.
Apr 02, 2026
Contractor
About the Role: Are you a finance expert who thrives in a collaborative, dynamic environment? Do you have a passion for driving business performance through data-driven insights and cost-saving initiatives? If so, this could be the role for you! As a Finance Business Partner within the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team, you'll play a crucial role in shaping key financial decisions, supporting business areas to optimise costs, and delivering impactful financial insights. You will work closely with senior leaders, offering strategic advice, challenging assumptions, and helping the company make smarter financial decisions. What You'll Do: Be the Finance Lead for key areas of the business, owning the finance relationship and advising on key decisions. Drive cost-saving initiatives by identifying opportunities to improve efficiencies and supporting the business through cost reduction strategies. Own financial forecasting and budgeting processes, ensuring forecasts are realistic and based on solid analysis. Provide financial insight to senior managers, offering expertise in understanding financial data, spotting risks, and highlighting opportunities. Collaborate with non-finance teams to help them understand their financials, track spending, and improve performance. Support cost management (FinOps) by analysing and implementing strategies to drive efficiency and cost transparency. Manage and mentor junior team members , helping them develop and grow in their roles. What We're Looking For: Commercial Finance Expertise : You'll need to be able to understand complex financial data and translate it into simple, actionable insights for non-finance stakeholders. Cost Consciousness : A key part of your role will be to challenge spending, identify cost-saving opportunities, and track progress on cost-saving initiatives. Strong Com munication Skills : You must be able to explain financial concepts clearly and confidently to senior non-finance managers. Proactive Problem Solver : You'll need to spot issues before they arise and take ownership of finding solutions. Team Player : You'll be part of a collaborative team and work closely with others across the business. Skills : Strong Excel skills, good PowerPoint/Word skills, with experience in financial planning and analysis. Qualifications : Part-qualified ACA/CIMA/ACCA with 3-5 years of experience in a similar role. Please put your home postcode on your CV when applying. Our recruitment tech uses this to make sure your CV is reviewed by the relevant consultant, for the relevant job(s), in the relevant geography. Macildowie are a recruitment business working on behalf of a client to recruit this role. Your personal data may be forwarded to that client company as part of the application process. If you would like information on how we will process your data please go to our website (macildowie) and view our fair processing notices which are located at the bottom of the page under privacy policies. Within the fair processing notice for Candidates there is guidance on how to amend your contact preferences or exercise your rights relating to personal data. We can't provide direct links as email address and website urls within our job adverts are removed by some of the websites on which we advertise. Macildowie is a specialist recruitment consultancy with a rich history of enhancing the careers of professionals across the Midlands and the Northern Home Counties. We have an unrivalled understanding of the local market place and recruit for the majority of the region's premier employers. To search for all of our live jobs please visit us at macildowie.
Growing group of companies within the engineering sector currently require a CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualified senior finance business partner to join their accounts function in their newly acquired York offices. The business operates throughout the UK and Europe and has recently acquired external investment to help continue its ambitious growth plans. Working closely with the Finance Director and Sales Director, your position will play a pivotal role in building increased awareness of finance positions within non-finance areas. Initial duties will include: Overview of the monthly management accounts analysing and commenting on trends. Liaising with senior stakeholderss across the group presenting current budget positions. Providing meaningful narrative to support key decisions around future growth of the business. Assess and support current account production processes highlighting ways to improve commercial awareness of the accounts across the business. Provide key reports to external investors. Ideally you will be able to demonstrate the below experience/qualifications: CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualified Previous experience within a Finance Business Partnering/Senior Commercial Accountant position. Proven track record of senior stake holder management across finance and none finance areas. The company offers: Generous starting salary Flexible working hours Private health care upon completion of probation 25 days holiday rising 1 per day for each year of service As the company continues to develop you will have the opportunity to gain wider commercial experience within the business. This would be an ideal role for any commercially minded management accountant/finance manager looking to gain that wider experience as they develop towards Financial Controller and beyond. Sharp Consultancy is a finance and accountancy recruitment specialist assisting accounting and finance divisions of businesses in the Yorkshire and Derbyshire area. With over 30 years' experience we pride ourselves on sourcing excellent finance professionals across all divisions of an accounts function. Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK full time without restriction. To apply please send your CV to the e-mail address stated, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications, we receive it is not always possible to respond to unsuccessful applicants. Therefore, if we have not responded to your application within seven days, please note that on this occasion your application has not been successful.
Apr 02, 2026
Full time
Growing group of companies within the engineering sector currently require a CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualified senior finance business partner to join their accounts function in their newly acquired York offices. The business operates throughout the UK and Europe and has recently acquired external investment to help continue its ambitious growth plans. Working closely with the Finance Director and Sales Director, your position will play a pivotal role in building increased awareness of finance positions within non-finance areas. Initial duties will include: Overview of the monthly management accounts analysing and commenting on trends. Liaising with senior stakeholderss across the group presenting current budget positions. Providing meaningful narrative to support key decisions around future growth of the business. Assess and support current account production processes highlighting ways to improve commercial awareness of the accounts across the business. Provide key reports to external investors. Ideally you will be able to demonstrate the below experience/qualifications: CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualified Previous experience within a Finance Business Partnering/Senior Commercial Accountant position. Proven track record of senior stake holder management across finance and none finance areas. The company offers: Generous starting salary Flexible working hours Private health care upon completion of probation 25 days holiday rising 1 per day for each year of service As the company continues to develop you will have the opportunity to gain wider commercial experience within the business. This would be an ideal role for any commercially minded management accountant/finance manager looking to gain that wider experience as they develop towards Financial Controller and beyond. Sharp Consultancy is a finance and accountancy recruitment specialist assisting accounting and finance divisions of businesses in the Yorkshire and Derbyshire area. With over 30 years' experience we pride ourselves on sourcing excellent finance professionals across all divisions of an accounts function. Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK full time without restriction. To apply please send your CV to the e-mail address stated, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications, we receive it is not always possible to respond to unsuccessful applicants. Therefore, if we have not responded to your application within seven days, please note that on this occasion your application has not been successful.
Your new company A leading consultancy with a specific focus on digital innovation and transformation, driven by market-leading expertise in strategy, technology, data science and creative design. They have a proven track record of helping multiple organisations across both the public and private sector to transform their business through the use of strategic technology and envision what is next for their business. Your new role They are recruiting for Digital Business Consultants to join the organisation to work closely with key clients and deliver leading-edge digital solutions. This will include combining a clear understanding of business value and a consultative approach to make the difference, whilst considering the transformative potential of AI to re-shape the modern world in every engagement. The Digital Business Consultant will be required to: Help clients define their digital strategy and build the business case for investing in ground-breaking AI and other digital technologies. Define compelling customer value propositions and winning business models for the digital era, then creating and documenting solution blueprints, roadmaps, capability models, or operating models. Apply Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) to structure delivery teams around value chains and create features and epics. Apply Design Thinking to develop personas, define pain points, define MVPs and prototypes, and designing experiments to test solution hypotheses. Cultivate strong relationships among working teams and build enduring relationships with senior leadership, and work closely with SMEs to ensure design feasibility, viability, and compliance. Business development activities including leading/ contributing to proposals, RFP's, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution and client hosting at events. What you'll need to succeed Business architecture experience in consulting or industry (Business/Enterprise Architect, Senior Business Analyst, Product Owner, Product Manager) using recognised methods and frameworks. Wider experience and capability in technology-enabled rethinking / reengineering of business models (service design, organisational change, business strategy, financial analysis, process improvement such as Lean / Six Sigma). Demonstrable experience in holistic analysis of AI use cases within project scoping and/or delivery, including the impact on people, processes, data, and sustainability Ability to understand and engage with technical teams on highly complex technology and data projects: you won't be designing a technology stack, and you do need to understand the implications of the stack for the rest of the solution elements while maintaining a laser focus on the business value we're delivering through this technology. Experience gained working in a consulting firm, with some level of client-facing experience and involvement in business development activities (including proposals, bid creation etc). What you'll get in return Competitive salary of 70-80K depending on experience + 4K variable performance bonus Several benefits Hybrid working What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at (url removed)
Apr 01, 2026
Full time
Your new company A leading consultancy with a specific focus on digital innovation and transformation, driven by market-leading expertise in strategy, technology, data science and creative design. They have a proven track record of helping multiple organisations across both the public and private sector to transform their business through the use of strategic technology and envision what is next for their business. Your new role They are recruiting for Digital Business Consultants to join the organisation to work closely with key clients and deliver leading-edge digital solutions. This will include combining a clear understanding of business value and a consultative approach to make the difference, whilst considering the transformative potential of AI to re-shape the modern world in every engagement. The Digital Business Consultant will be required to: Help clients define their digital strategy and build the business case for investing in ground-breaking AI and other digital technologies. Define compelling customer value propositions and winning business models for the digital era, then creating and documenting solution blueprints, roadmaps, capability models, or operating models. Apply Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) to structure delivery teams around value chains and create features and epics. Apply Design Thinking to develop personas, define pain points, define MVPs and prototypes, and designing experiments to test solution hypotheses. Cultivate strong relationships among working teams and build enduring relationships with senior leadership, and work closely with SMEs to ensure design feasibility, viability, and compliance. Business development activities including leading/ contributing to proposals, RFP's, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution and client hosting at events. What you'll need to succeed Business architecture experience in consulting or industry (Business/Enterprise Architect, Senior Business Analyst, Product Owner, Product Manager) using recognised methods and frameworks. Wider experience and capability in technology-enabled rethinking / reengineering of business models (service design, organisational change, business strategy, financial analysis, process improvement such as Lean / Six Sigma). Demonstrable experience in holistic analysis of AI use cases within project scoping and/or delivery, including the impact on people, processes, data, and sustainability Ability to understand and engage with technical teams on highly complex technology and data projects: you won't be designing a technology stack, and you do need to understand the implications of the stack for the rest of the solution elements while maintaining a laser focus on the business value we're delivering through this technology. Experience gained working in a consulting firm, with some level of client-facing experience and involvement in business development activities (including proposals, bid creation etc). What you'll get in return Competitive salary of 70-80K depending on experience + 4K variable performance bonus Several benefits Hybrid working What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at (url removed)
Data Solutions Lead - Pre-Sales - Permanent - 95k - London Hybrid A global data consultancy is seeking a Data Solutions Lead to drive pre-sales and solutioning for modern data platforms. This Senior Manager-level role is ideal for someone who thrives in client-facing environments and understands cloud transformation. Location : London (Hybrid) Start : Immediate / ASAP Key Focus : Lead RFP/RFI responses and shape data platform proposals. Collaborate across sales, architecture, and delivery teams. Translate technical solutions into business value. You'll Need : Pre-sales/consulting background with cloud platform expertise (Azure/AWS/GCP). Strong stakeholder engagement and proposal leadership. Experience in data governance and enterprise architecture.
Oct 01, 2025
Full time
Data Solutions Lead - Pre-Sales - Permanent - 95k - London Hybrid A global data consultancy is seeking a Data Solutions Lead to drive pre-sales and solutioning for modern data platforms. This Senior Manager-level role is ideal for someone who thrives in client-facing environments and understands cloud transformation. Location : London (Hybrid) Start : Immediate / ASAP Key Focus : Lead RFP/RFI responses and shape data platform proposals. Collaborate across sales, architecture, and delivery teams. Translate technical solutions into business value. You'll Need : Pre-sales/consulting background with cloud platform expertise (Azure/AWS/GCP). Strong stakeholder engagement and proposal leadership. Experience in data governance and enterprise architecture.
