FP&A Manager

About The Role

We are making our first dedicated FP&A hire: an FP&A Manager to own short-range forecasting, variance analysis, and accounting-grounded financial modelling across a multi-entity, multi-currency group, operating at both corporate and SPV level.

Reporting to the VP of Accounting, this is a hands-on, builder role: you will design the forecasting and reporting cadence from scratch, in an environment where capital deployment is large, fast, and lumpy — data centre build-outs, GPU procurement, colocation deployments, and project financing.

This is not a classic long-range planning seat. The emphasis is on near-term accuracy: rolling 13-week cash forecasting, in-quarter and quarterly reforecasts, burn management, and models that reconcile cleanly to the general ledger and to US GAAP accounting positions.

What You Will Be Doing

• Own the rolling 13-week cash flow forecast across all group entities and currencies (GBP, USD, EUR, NOK), including AP outflows, payroll, project payments, and intercompany funding

• Run a monthly and quarterly P&L reforecast cycle covering opex, capex, headcount, and cash runway, with clear bridges to the prior forecast

• Produce consolidated cash and burn reporting for the VP of Accounting, CFO, board, and investors, and manage runway scenarios against the funding plan

• Deliver monthly actuals-vs-forecast and actuals-vs-budget variance analysis at entity, department, and project level, with root-cause commentary

• Track project-level cost variances on data centre deployments against approved budgets and purchase commitments

• Build and maintain the group's operating and financial model on a US GAAP basis, consistent with the group's technical accounting positions (capitalisation policy, ASC 842 lease accounting, project-finance debt, share-based compensation)

• Model the P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow impacts of major transactions: site acquisitions, colocation and lease commitments, GPU financing, debt drawdowns, and equity events

• Establish variance thresholds, escalation routes, and reporting formats that will stand up as SOX-adjacent management review controls

• Define the FP&A calendar, templates, and data model, and contribute to ERP design during the NetSuite implementation

What You Bring

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent), or equivalent depth in US GAAP-based modelling — this role requires genuine accounting fluency, not just spreadsheet fluency

• 5+ years in FP&A, with demonstrable ownership of short-range cash forecasting and variance analysis in a capital-intensive or high-burn environment

• Experience in multi-entity, multi-currency groups; comfort with intercompany flows and FX in forecasting

• Strong grasp of accrual accounting mechanics: able to build a three-statement model that ties to the trial balance and explain timing versus rate versus volume variances

• Advanced Excel; experience with leading ERPs is strongly preferred

• Comfort with ambiguity and zero-to-one process building; you write clearly and present numbers that go to the board without rework

Nice to Have

• Data centre, infrastructure, energy, or other project-finance-heavy sector experience

• Exposure to SOX 404 environments or IPO/listing readiness

• Familiarity with ASC 842, ASC 718, or capitalisation of infrastructure assets

• Experience forecasting in pre-revenue or early-revenue companies