Senior FP&A Analyst - Global Software Leader

About the Company Our client is a highly successful, well-established, global software company which is recognised as a market leader. About the Role As part of the growth plans for an exciting part of the business, we are looking for an FP&A Analyst to join a small close-knit global FP&A team. You will be the FP&A contact for stakeholders across the UK and Europe. As one of the senior members of the team, you will be someone the team can look to when the Head of FP&A is not available. It requires real commercial awareness and someone who can see the bigger picture, get to the insight and put clear recommendations in front of decision-makers. You will be a trusted finance business partner, working cross-functionally with leaders in the business, and will mentor and develop junior members of the FP&A team. You will need to be fluent with data - comfortable querying source systems directly, building production reporting in the Power Platform, and using AI and agentic workflows to shorten the distance between question and answer. Candidates will need 4-6 years of progressive FP&A experience in SaaS/Software. Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted finance business partner to leaders across the business.
• Explain performance rather than just report it: connect movements in revenue, cost, headcount and KPIs to what is actually happening commercially.
• Provide the analysis behind investment cases, pricing decisions and strategic initiatives.
• Be a senior voice in the team, represent FP&A with senior stakeholders, pick things up when the Head of FP&A is unavailable. Forecasting and Planning
• Play a leading role in the monthly and quarterly forecast cycle.
• Build and maintain the models that underpin the plan: Recurring revenue and backlog, ARR and ACV, Churn and retention, cost, headcount, long-range planning.
• Support the annual planning process. Reporting and Analysis
• Own the management reporting and dashboards that leaders use to run the business.
• Analyse variances, trends, risks and opportunities across revenue, operating expenses, headcount and KPIs. Data, Automation and AI
• Get to the data at source - write and maintain queries rather than waiting on manual extracts.
• Build and maintain automated reporting across the Microsoft Power Platform (Power Query, Power BI, Power Automate).
• Design and build agentic workflows that remove manual effort from the reporting and forecast cycle and increase speed to insight. Use AI routinely in day-to-day analysis and raise the data and AI capability of the wider FP&A team. Qualifications
• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field, or a qualified / part-qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA).
• 4-6 years of progressive FP&A, financial analysis or strategic finance experience.
• Strong commercial acumen, with a track record of influencing decisions rather than only producing analysis.
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling, with a solid grounding in accounting principles and the financial statements.
• Demonstrable experience working with large data sets and advanced data querying - SQL, Power Query / M or equivalent. You should be comfortable getting to the data yourself.
• Hands-on experience with the Microsoft Power Platform (Power BI, Power Query, Power Automate), building and maintaining reporting rather than only consuming it.
• Practical experience embedding AI into finance workflows.
• Able to tell the story behind the numbers and influence credibly at senior level.