Head of FP&A

Head of FP&A – Commercial Finance Location: Staffordshire Salary: £90,000 + benefits

Robert Walters Group are supporting a leading business in Staffordshire with their recruitment of a Head of FP&A role to strengthen its commercial finance capability. This is an opportunity to build an FP&A function almost from the ground up, moving it into a truly value‑adding, commercially focused decision-support role. You will initially operate as a hands-on, sleeves-rolled‑up FP&A lead, owning the end‑to‑end process from data collection and validation, through to interpretation, storytelling and impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Own commercial and FP&A data from multiple sources, ensuring it is accurate, understandable and decision‑ready
• Analyse profitability by product, entity and geography, identifying where value is created across the value chain
• Develop regular management and commercial performance reporting (monthly, rolling forecasts, deep‑dive analysis)
• Act as a true business partner to sales, commercial and operational stakeholders
• Provide insight into pricing, margin and competitive pressures in an increasingly global market
• Navigate complex multi‑entity and intercompany relationships where profit is added at different stages
• Understand how and why data is produced – not just report the output
• Help shape the longer‑term FP&A roadmap, with the potential to build a dedicated team over time
• Gain full oversight of existing data, create clarity, introduce regular reporting cadence and commercial insight
• Embed FP&A into decision‑making, improve margin visibility and lay foundations for function expansion

Candidate Profile

• Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent)
• Strong FP&A or commercial finance background within a technically complex business
• Comfortable working closely with operational teams
• Experience with multi‑entity environments and intercompany dynamics
• Commercially curious, detail‑driven and able to see through the numbers
• Collaborative, listens carefully to existing processes before challenging and improving them
• International exposure is advantageous but not essential

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