FP&A Manager

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May 31, 2025

Job description

About the Role

The Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team is integral to driving and delivering ROLLER’s growth strategy. The FP&A team is currently in a scale up phase, providing a unique opportunity to join the global software tech company as it goes through a hyper growth stage and ensure your efforts have an important impact to achieving the company strategic goals. We are on a mission to build a highly collaborative and skilled team with proven experience in high growth SaaS businesses where you can bring strategic thinking, reporting and planning expertise to help ROLLER achieve its growth goals and build a world-class, high performing FP&A team.

The FP&A Manager role is a unique opportunity to get a broad bur deep understanding of the business and partner with leaders across operational and business support teams playing an important role in supporting the company’s growth strategy by leveraging strategic thinking, analytical skills and being a trusted business partner. The role will bolster the financial awareness across all teams across the business by owning the annual planning and management reporting processes, ensuring alignment with business initiatives and team structures.

Responsibilities

What You'll Do

  • Be a key contributor to the FP&A and wider Finance team.
  • Help the Director - FP&A enhance and optimise the company’s reporting, analytical and annual planning processes through:
  • Implementation of an FP&A reporting, automation and data consolidation tool, integrating into various companywide systems such as NetSuite, BigQuery and Hibob in addition to helping People and Culture implement a workforce planning tool.
  • Create and manage a regular cadence of opex and workforce reporting for both internal stakeholders and the board, in addition to the enhancement of these processes to help drive efficiencies and stakeholder ownership.
  • Building a rolling opex forecast model process identifying potential risks to opex budgets / forecast achievement early.
  • Provide excellence in Business Partnering support across the business, bringing trust, support and financial awareness to across all teams.
  • Support the annual planning process focussing on leading and owning the opex and workforce planning processes (forecasts, budgets and scenario and sensitivity analysis) across the business, ensuring accuracy through connection with the overarching business strategy and drivers.
  • Develop and opex planning models and improve on existing models to adapt to commercial changes that affect opex drivers and challenge yourself to continuously improve the models and drivers to reach better outcomes and improve accuracy whilst maintaining efficiency.
  • Partner with all teams across the business to gather relevant assumptions and insights for revenue planning models.
  • Own and prepare detailed and accurate monthly opex and workforce performance reporting frameworks for all SLT and operational leaders, offering insights into trends, variances against plan and key metrics and recommendations to inform decision making.
  • Improve and develop financial and workforce allocation performance reporting frameworks to increase efficiency and accuracy, leveraging automation where possible.

Job requirements

About You

  • Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to generate high engagement with non-finance stakeholders and adapt to the different needs of these stakeholders, constructively challenging management’s proposals and decisions in relation to the performance of their teams.
  • A depth of experience across a range of FP&A roles such as partnering with departments and corporate FP&A roles where you were involved in annual planning and monthly management reporting processes as well as optimising and upskilling current processes within a fast-paced SaaS / technology business.
  • A hunger for continuous learning, embracing new challenges and can be adaptable to these changes, at the same time understand where to focus your time to get maximum impact.
  • A love of modelling in Excel in addition to understanding and analysing the drivers and insights of cost growth of a department.
  • Love cross-functional collaboration, gathering insights to drive financial and operational budgets / forecasts.
  • An understanding of how operating costs impacts cash.
  • A strategic thinker with the ability to look beyond the numbers of a model and understand the impacts the model outputs have on the business.
  • Curious mindset that challenges the status quo, with an eagerness to identify areas of improvement in building efficiencies in joining disparate data sources and existing whilst maintaining efficiency and accuracy.
  • A solid working knowledge of basic accounting standards and principles around cost recognition and how to apply these when developing profit and loss and cash flow models and analytical result reviews.
  • Thrive in highly collaborative environments and solving problems creatively.
  • Exceptional communication skills that enable you to quickly build rapport with senior leaders.
  • A strong ability to work in a fast-paced environment and adept quickly in understanding the business, whilst also being flexible and taking a proactive approach to achieving team and business goals.
  • Have experience in first or second tier reporting and planning tools.