Head of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)
Cirencester, Gloucestershire | Full-time | Starting ASAP
With over years of making the complex simple, Kubus enhances customers experiences by simplifying complex IT solutions, delivered through our managed expertise, leading vendor partnerships and global logistics capability.
Our people are at the centre of our community, building strong relationships and supporting one another, creating an environment where everyone can thrive. At Kubus, we recognise a collaborative working environment encourages greater outcomes and a positive experience for our customers, partners and wider community.
Our Values:
1. Passion - putting customers, partners and vendors first, delivering solutions at pace, and being passionate about driving change.
2. Agile - Embracing flexibility, remaining open to change, and adapting quickly to meet customer and market needs.
3. Community - Building strong relationships, supporting one another, and creating an environment where everyone can thrive.
4. Expert - Commitment to curiosity and excellence, constantly pushing boundaries, sharing knowledge and delivering value.
The Role:
We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to lead Kubus’ financial planning and analysis function, delivering forward‑looking insight, robust forecasting, and strategic financial guidance. In this role you will provide clarity on performance, drive informed decision‑making, and ensure the business has the visibility and analysis needed.
What You’ll Be Doing:
Strategic Planning, Forecasting & Budgeting
5. Lead the end-to-end budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning processes, ensuring alignment with strategic and commercial objectives.
6. Own and enhance financial planning models, ensuring accuracy, scalability and consistent methodology across the business.
7. Develop scenario analysis and sensitivity modelling to support strategic decisions, risk assessments and investment cases.
8. Work closely with the Head of Finance to align planning cycles with monthly reporting, management accounts and operational insight.
Performance Reporting & Insight
9. Own monthly performance reporting, board-level FP&A materials and executive financial insight.
10. Provide clear, concise, forward-looking commentary that highlights trends, risks and opportunities.
11. Monitor performance against budget, forecast, and KPIs, driving accountability through data-driven insights.
12. Enhance dashboards, analytics and reporting tools that provide real-time visibility into business performance.
Business Partnering & Strategic Support
13. Act as a senior business to all departments across the business, including the Senior Leadership Team and Board.
14. Lead financial modelling and commercial evaluation for strategic projects, new service/product developments, investments and profitability initiatives.
15. Support pricing, bids and tenders with financial insight and profitability modelling.
16. Facilitate cross-functional planning meetings and performance reviews.
Commercial Finance & Margin Ownership
17. Own service costing, product costing, and commercial cost model methodologies, ensuring they are accurate, scalable, and consistently applied across the business.
18. Lead the implementation and continuous development of costing models to strengthen pricing decisions, profitability assessment, and commercial governance.
19. Partner with Operations and Services to validate inputs and ensure real‑time accuracy of cost bases.
20. Provide insight into product/service profitability trends and work with Solutions, Sales, and Finance leadership to improve margins.
Leadership & Team Development
21. Lead, mentor, and develop the FP&A team, including line management of the FP&A Manager.
22. Manage and provide strategic direction to the Commercial Manager, ensuring commercial modelling, pricing governance, and road mapping support are aligned to financial strategy.
23. Build a high‑performance culture focused on analysis excellence, business impact, and proactive insight.
24. Drive close alignment and collaboration with the Head of Finance and wider Finance team.
Financial Governance & Continuous Improvement
25. Ensure FP&A processes, financial models, and reporting outputs meet high standards of accuracy, transparency, and governance.
26. Own and maintain the FP&A Standards Playbook, including the planning calendar, modelling standards, reporting templates, and forecasting methodologies, ensuring consistency and best practice across the business.
27. Lead continuous improvement initiatives across forecasting, data quality, tools, systems, and reporting.
28. Support Finance Director and Head of Finance with strategic insight related to cash, risk, investment decisions, and long‑term sustainability.
What We’re Looking For:
29. Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with significant post-qualification experience in FP&A or commercial finance leadership.
30. Proven experience leading FP&A team and delivering planning and forecasting cycles.
31. Experience in high-growth/PE-backed environments.
32. Strong financial modelling skills and advanced analytical capability.
33. Excellent communication skills with the ability to distil complex data into clear insight.
34. Strong business partnering credentials with experience influencing senior stakeholders.
35. Commercially minded, forward-thinking and highly organised.
36. High degree of integrity and professional discretion.
37. Experience working in a technology, MSP, or reseller environment strongly preferred.
38. Experience using NetSuite, Salesforce or Tableau (desirable).
What you’ll get:
39. Competitive salary & bonus scheme
40. Private healthcare & healthcare cash plan
41. Pension contributions above minimum requirement (matched up to %)
42. days holiday + bank holidays upon starting, increasing by a day each year to a maximum of days
43. Salary sacrifice electric vehicle scheme
44. Enhanced parental leave
45. Technology scheme
46. Cycle to work scheme
47. Reward & recognition portal – including discounts/cashback at hundreds of retailers
This is an exciting opportunity to join our Finance team during an exciting period of growth at Kubus!
Based at: Wellington House, Cotswold Business Park, Cirencester, GL BQ
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