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) xxuwjjq
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