[Hiring] VP of Financial Planning & Analysis @UFORCE

Role Description

We're hiring a VP of Financial Planning & Analysis to build and lead our FP&A function. The company has recently raised significant funding, and it needs a hands-on leader to turn that strategy into agreed company targets, realistic budgets, clear spending priorities, and reporting leadership can rely on. You will build the financial model from scratch, set up the planning process, and give the CFO and executive team the numbers and recommendations they need to make decisions. The aim is for the CFO to spend their time on strategic finance, investors, and executive decisions, and less on building models, chasing inputs, or correcting reports.

This role will report to CFO. Over the first six months you will establish the function, and over the following year you will scale it, starting by building a small team and adding people as workload and data quality justify it. You will work closely with Accounting, Controlling, Treasury, Sales, Product, Engineering, Manufacturing, and People. The environment is demanding and not yet fully structured, so you need to be comfortable setting up processes from a blank page, working with incomplete data, and being questioned on your assumptions by the board and investors.

Responsibilities

• Build the integrated financial model, including assumptions, scenarios, documentation, and ongoing maintenance.
• Work with the CFO and CEO to turn company strategy into financial targets, then translate those targets into annual budgets, monthly forecasts, and quarterly reviews.
• Run the planning process end to end: templates, submission deadlines, challenge sessions, consolidation, version control, and a repeatable forecasting calendar with named budget owners.
• Deliver monthly management and board reporting that is reconciled to actuals, explained against budget and forecast, and includes cash implications, risks, and recommendations.
• Agree a clear handover of actuals with Accounting and Controlling, including required inputs, reconciliation checks, delivery dates, and escalation routes.
• Analyse product, contract, and customer economics with Manufacturing, Product, and Accounting.
• Link sales forecasts to signed contracts, delivery milestones, recognised revenue, and customer receipts.
• Track approved budgets against actual and committed spending, remaining funds, and projected overruns.
• Work with Treasury to maintain a rolling short-term cash forecast and runway view.
• Turn differences from plan into clear recommendations on what to fund, defer, reduce, or stop.
• Review spending ratios and cost trends each quarter, investigate unusual movements with budget owners, and recommend actions.
• Prepare board and investor financial content within the authority agreed with the CFO.
• Hire, onboard, and develop a small FP&A team across locations.

Qualifications

• Hands-on financial modelling: you have personally built a model from scratch that stood up to investor scrutiny.
• Budgeting and funding experience: you have led or worked directly under the accountable lead on financial work for a major funding round.
• Strong judgment on prioritization and decisions: you focus on the decisions, deadlines, and cash risks that matter most.
• Business and spending judgment: you can challenge budgets constructively and expose omitted or duplicated costs.
• Reporting discipline: you use reconciled figures, documented definitions, and controlled assumptions.
• Commercial understanding of manufacturing, government or defence procurement, deployment costs, and multi-currency operations.
• People leadership: you have managed analysts, reviewed their work, set priorities, and developed independent owners.
• Hands-on, low ego, and direct, with comfort under scrutiny and with incomplete data.
• Willingness to check any AI-assisted output yourself and to change and explain the model live.

Requirements

• Experience in defence, aerospace, hardware, or another complex manufacturing business.
• Experience building an FP&A function in a fast-growing, post-funding company.
• Experience working across multiple entities, countries, or distributed finance teams.