Job Title: FP&A Manager
Location: Preston (2–3 days in the office)
Reports to: Head of FP&A
Salary: £60,000-£75,000
Sector: Logistics
About the Company
A private equity backed services business experiencing rapid growth, targeting 25-30% year-on-year expansion and positioning itself for a future exit. The company has strong momentum, a clear growth strategy and solid plans to leverage its platform, with several opportunities to accelerate growth beyond its core offering.
The Role
This newly created FP&A Manager position will be the right hand to the Head of FP&A, leading on financial analysis, data integrity, and business performance insight.
The role requires someone commercially astute and analytically driven, capable of turning complex data into actionable insight, building models that shape decisions, and supporting high-growth planning initiatives. You’ll play a central part in preparing the business for its next stage of growth and eventual exit.
The ideal candidate will be commercially astute and a motivated self-starter who is looking to take ownership in a dynamic operating business. You’ll need analytical rigour and interpersonal skills to work with and challenge various senior members of the business through data insights and financial/data led assessments.
Key Responsibilities
* Partner with the Head of FP&A to deliver budgeting, forecasting, scenario planning and performance reporting.
* Develop advanced Power BI dashboards and models to provide real-time visibility of performance.
* Cleanse, reconcile, and structure financial data to enable robust analysis and decision-making.
* Develop and track KPIs across key business areas, ensuring actionable insight is shared on a daily and weekly basis.
* Partner with the Head of FP&A and SLT to analyse growth opportunities, investment cases and bespoke internal projects.
* Oversee and improve data quality, structure, and consistency to enable robust financial insight.
* Support performance reviews and investor reporting for investors.
* Mentor junior finance team members and embed strong analytical discipline across the function.
Key Requirements
* ACA Qualified accountant, ideally Top 10 trained with corporate finance, FP&A or commercial finance experience.
* Strong financial modelling and analytical skills with ability to simplify complex concepts to drive decision making.
* Strong commercial acumen, able to challenge and influence senior stakeholders.
* High proficiency in Excel and data visualisation tools (Power BI would be beneficial).
* Comfortable working with incomplete data sets and improving data accuracy.
* Experience in a private equity–backed or high-growth environment is highly advantageous.
* Proactive, detail-oriented, and able to operate autonomously in a lean structure.
* Excellent communication skills and commercial curiosity with resilience to challenge and ability to influence senior stakeholders.
* Results driven with a bias for action, tenacious, self-starting and comfortable operating with ambiguity and at pace.
What’s On Offer
* Work in a dynamic, fast-growing, PE-backed business with clear growth ambitions.
* Shape the financial planning and insight capability of a PE-backed growth business.
* Direct partnership with an ambitious Head of FP&A, senior leadership team and engaged PE investors.
* Exposure to private equity value creation plan.
* Flexible working and a pragmatic, supportive working culture.
* Huge scope for progression as the business scales and prepares for future investment.