Interim Head of FP&A

ABOUT BEAMERY

We are a leading transformational AI platform in the HR technology industry enabling enterprise companies to create better and fairer talent decisions by accelerating their recruiting processes unlocking successful internal mobility opportunities enabling smarter upskilling initiatives and facilitating agile workforce planning. We are helping our clients hire and redeploy over a million people annually.

Read more about our work here.

Whats ahead and why its an exciting time to join the team:

Deepening our native integrations with SAP Workday Microsoft and LinkedIn to seamlessly embed our skills intelligence into the platforms where critical workforce decisions are made.

Embedding our agentic AI to help customers plan smarter for the futurepowering workforce strategies internal mobility and skills forecasting.

Advancing our use of proprietary LLMs and knowledge graph technology to help organizations unlock broader talent pools make fairer decisions and expand access to opportunity at scale.

But its not all about creating high-quality products we also very much value the company culture we have worked hard to create; built on trust empathy & honesty ensuring our workforce is able to bring their full selves to work.

The Opportunity

We are looking for an exceptional interim finance leader to step into a high-impact Head of FP&A role for an initial period of 612 months. This is not a steady state position we need someone who thrives in a transformation environment can hit the ground running and is equally comfortable shaping strategy and rolling up their sleeves.

This is also a genuine opportunity to define what FP&A means in our business. You will be joining as a standalone FP&A leader building the function establishing its influence and setting the standard for how finance insight is generated and used across the organisation. The canvas is largely blank and we are looking for someone with the vision and energy to paint on it.

A central pillar of this engagement is the overhaul of our finance technology stack. You will assess what we have remove what no longer serves us and implement modern AI-powered tools to underpin a best-in-class FP&A function all while keeping the core business reporting and partnering engine running smoothly.

The Team

This role reports directly to our CFO and works closely with the Financial Control team Commercial & Senior leadership and the Data and BI teams. At the outset this is a standalone FP&A role with the potential scope to shape future team structure.

The Role

Finance Technology Transformation

• Lead a full audit of the current finance technology stack identifying redundant or underperforming systems.

• Design and drive the implementation roadmap for new FP&A tools including AI-powered planning consolidation and reporting platforms that maximise data processing speed and analytical output.

• Evaluate and integrate AI and automation tools to streamline routine finance tasks freeing up capacity for higher-value insight generation.

• Manage vendor selection procurement and change management for system transitions.

• Decommission legacy tools ensuring clean data migration and minimal business disruption.

• Establish scalable data architecture and governance standards for finance systems.

Building & Leading FP&A

• Define and establish the FP&A function from the ground up setting its mandate processes and operating rhythm within the business.

• Own the annual budgeting quarterly reforecasting and long-range planning processes end-to-end.

• Develop and maintain robust financial models and leverage AI-powered analytics tools to deliver faster deeper insight across revenue cost and headcount.

• Produce high-quality board and executive reporting packs translating complex data into clear narratives for senior leadership and non-executive stakeholders.

• Lead the preparation and delivery of investor reporting producing accurate timely and well-contextualised financial updates for institutional investors and other key external stakeholders in line with agreed reporting cadences and obligations.

• Support the CFO in managing relationships with third-party stakeholders including lenders auditors advisors and any other parties requiring financial information ensuring outputs are accurate professionally presented and appropriately governed.

• Drive the monthly close commentary and variance analysis in close collaboration with the Financial Control team ensuring accuracy and timeliness.

• Shape a longer-term vision for the FP&A team structure and capability even if hiring is not in scope for this interim period.

Business Partnering

• Act as a trusted finance partner to senior business leaders supporting strategic decision-making with rigorous financial insight.

• Build strong relationships with commercial sales and operational teams embedding finance into day-to-day business conversations.

• Challenge assumptions and drive financial accountability across the organisation.

Pricing & Commissions

• Partner with commercial and sales teams to model and evaluate pricing structures ensuring financial sustainability and competitiveness.

• Support the design modelling and review of sales commission and incentive plans assessing P&L impact and alignment to business objectives.

• Provide analytical support for deal desk activities contract structures and margin analysis.

Hands-On Data & AI-Driven Analysis

• Take personal ownership of data quality across finance systems defining cleansing and maintaining core datasets.

• Build and manage financial data models and reporting hierarchies ensuring consistency across the business.

• Harness modern AI and intelligent data processing tools to maximise the speed accuracy and depth of financial analysis and reporting.

• Work closely with data engineering and BI teams to develop reliable automated pipelines reducing manual data handling and increasing analytical throughput.

• Champion the use of AI-assisted forecasting anomaly detection and scenario modelling to elevate the quality of insight delivered to senior stakeholders.

• Be comfortable working at the detail level when required this role demands both strategic vision and genuine operational rigour.

Essential Experience & Skills

Core FP&A Capability

• Proven track record as Head of FP&A or equivalent in a fast-paced environment

• Expert financial modeller with strong skills in budgeting forecasting and scenario analysis

• Strong executive-level communication and storytelling with data including for board and investor audiences

• Excellent business partnering skills with a commercial mindset

• Comfortable working as a standalone FP&A leader self-sufficient proactive and influential without a team behind them

• High degree of comfort with ambiguity and the pace of an interim engagement

• Experience building or significantly shaping an FP&A function

Specialist & Technical Skills

• Demonstrated experience owning a finance tech stack transformation

• Hands-on experience with modern FP&A and AI-powered analytics platforms

• Experience in pricing modelling and commercial finance analysis

• Involvement in the design or governance of sales commission and incentive schemes

• Confident user of modern AI and data processing tools to drive efficiency in analysis and reporting

• Experience selecting and implementing finance or BI tools (vendor management RFP rollout)

• Strong data management skills comfortable owning data quality and detail without delegating

Ideal Background

• Qualified accountant (ACA ACCA CIMA or equivalent) with significant post-qualified experience in FP&A.

• Previous interim or consultancy experience is highly desirable you are comfortable being autonomous from day one.

• Background in B2B SaaS technology or high-growth businesses.

• You have been the person who identified a broken finance tech landscape and fixed it not just advised on it.

• You actively use AI and modern data tools in your day-to-day work and are ahead of the curve in applying them to FP&A not just curious about them.

• You have experience producing investor reporting or managing financial communications with institutional investors lenders or other external third parties.

• You are as comfortable interrogating a data model or configuring a planning tool as you are presenting to a board or investor audience.

Why this role

A rare opportunity to build something this is not a maintenance role. You will set the direction for FP&A in our business and leave a lasting mark.

Direct line to the CFO you will work as a genuine partner to finance leadership not layer beneath it.

Real transformation scope overhaul the tech stack embed AI and raise the bar on financial insight across the business.

A collaborative financial control team who are credible and engaged you will not be working in isolation.

Competitive compensation commensurate with seniority and the scope of the remit.

Beamery is for Everybody. Diversity and open expression are fundamental to us. We acknowledge the challenges in our industry and strive to develop an inclusive culture where everybody can contribute. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for everyone regardless of ethnicity religion color sexual orientation gender identity race national origin age disability status or caregiver status. If for whatever reason you need us to make reasonable adjustments and adaptations to our recruitment process please email

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