FPA Analytics Lead (AI Enablement)

This role acts as a commercial owner and challenger to the business partnering closely with the FP&A function to actively protect profitability reduce losses and strengthen commercial governance across the expectation is a highly proactive outcomesdriven role.

The FP&A Analytics Lead will independently drive analysis challenge assumptions influence senior decisionmaking and push for change not simply report performance.

A core part of the role is to deploy AI to materially improve financial outcomes transforming how financial planning forecasting scenario analysis and decision support are performed.

Role Requirements:

• Own and drive commercial governance across the business with a clear mandate to identify profit leakage reduce losses and improve margin performance in partnership with the FP&A team
• Act as an independent commercial conscience challenging assumptions escalating risks early and holding the organisation to account on financial outcomes
• Own endtoend delivery of AI use cases that modernise FP&A workflows from concept through to live scalable production
• A core part of the role is to deploy AI to materially improve financial outcomes transforming how financial planning forecasting scenario analysis and decision support are performed.

What We Are Looking For

We are seeking a senior analytics finance professional with a strong commercial mindset AI expertise and a passion for transforming how finance drives decisionmaking.

The emphasis is on applied AI in FP&A focused on forecasting accuracy scenario analysis loss and margin visibility and stronger commercial control.

Key Accountabilities:

Commercial Ownership & Governance

• Own endtoend commercial insight across the business with a clear focus on margin protection loss reduction and sustainable profit growth
• Lead proactive analysis of forecast variances downside risks and emerging loss drivers surfacing issues early and driving corrective action
• Embed strong commercial controls into forecasting scenario planning and decisionmaking processes
• Actively influence and challenge stakeholders using evidencebased insight not retrospective reporting

Delivery & AI Enablement

• Design build and deploy AI solutions into production using Microsoft Fabric
• Apply AI to augment automate and scale FP&A workflows insight generation and decision support

Core Technology Stack

• Microsoft Fabric
• Copilot Studio Power Automate Azure Foundry
• Strong SQL skills for investigation and analysis
• Working knowledge of Python
• Power BI and/or Tableau development and support
• Experience with dbt (data build tool)
• Ability to investigate and resolve data issues endtoend

What Success Looks Like

Within 12 months this role will have:

• Materially improved forecasting accuracy
• Strengthened visibility and control over profit margins and losses
• Proactive identification and mitigation of risks to prevent profit and cost shocks
• Embedded AIdriven FP&A capabilities that actively inform commercial decisions across the EU business
• Shifted FP&A towards a continuous insightled and controloriented function

Qualifications :

What we are looking for in an ideal candidate:

• • Intellectually curious and detail-oriented: Youre passionate about asking questions quickly ramping up and remaining agile as you receive feedback from business owners
  • Analytical: Youre happy working with numbers and in large sets of data to draw out insight to support and influence operational decision making
  • Meticulous: details details detailsyou thrive when living in the weeds and are constantly scouring for trends and aberrations
  • Ambitious: Youll go above and beyond to get results (and youre able to motivate others to do the same!)
  • Youll get your hands dirty:  Youre not afraid to jump into confusing messy situations. You love being the go-to person for getting things done.

Qualifications:

• • Bachelors Degree is REQUIRED. We prefer Mathematics Economics Statistics Finance or other quantitative background but can consider strong candidates from other disciplines as well.
  • Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills
  • Demonstrated ability to work with numbers and data analysis to come up with business insights and recommendations.

Additional Information :

This role is based in market but will require significant internal travel to partner locations along with monthly international travel to SquareTrade HQ in London. 

On average two to three days per week will be spent with the partner across a mix of locations including HQ and stores both within and outside the assigned region depending on business requirements. 

The Team:   is an Equal Opportunity Employer 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time