[Hiring] Head of FP&A @Prolific

Role Description

We’re looking for a strategic and commercially minded finance leader to build and scale our FP&A capability during a critical phase of growth. This role sits at the center of company decision-making, partnering closely with the CFO and leadership team to drive financial planning, business performance, strategic insight and operational excellence across the organization.

• Own the company’s financial planning and reporting cadence, including board reporting, executive leadership updates, and company-wide financial performance reporting.
• Develop a best-in-class FP&A function that combines robust financial modeling, scalable systems, deep commercial analysis, and high-quality decision support.
• Simplify complexity across planning, forecasting, and performance management within a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Lead the evolution of financial systems and infrastructure, including the implementation of next-generation FP&A and financial platforms.
• Build, mentor, and elevate a high-performing FP&A team that acts as a true strategic partner to the business.

Qualifications

• Proven experience implementing FP&A systems, planning tools, and scalable financial processes within a high-growth business.
• Experience operating in fast-paced technology start-ups or scale-ups.
• Strong financial modelling expertise, including developing models to support fundraising, investment decisions, and M&A activity.
• Demonstrated ability to build, lead, and develop high-performing teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong experience developing board-level reporting and data visualisations.
• Experience working with large, complex datasets and modelling multiple customer segments or revenue streams.
• A strategic and commercially-minded approach.
• The ability to work effectively in ambiguous environments.
• Strong project and process management skills.
• A collaborative leadership style.
• Experience with SQL, Python, or other data and automation tooling is a plus.

Requirements

• Own and continuously improve the company’s investor-grade three-way financial model, including rolling forecasts.
• Lead the annual planning process across revenue, headcount, and operational cost planning for all business units.
• Develop and maintain sophisticated revenue forecasting models using customer, product, and behavioural data.
• Deliver scenario planning and sensitivity analysis to support strategic decision-making and resource allocation.
• Identify, define, and monitor key business KPIs across the organisation.
• Proactively surface insights, trends, and performance drivers to leadership teams.
• Design and implement robust FP&A systems, tooling, and processes.
• Drive automation of reporting, forecasting, and financial analysis workflows.
• Build, mentor, and develop a high-performing FP&A team.

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