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About the Role

As FP&A Lead, you’ll report to the Head of Finance and be responsible for developing, maintaining, and improving our financial planning processes, tools, and outputs. You will drive the company-wide planning rhythm, support decision-making with high-quality forecasts and analysis, and act as a thought partner to functional leads.

This role requires a strong analytical mind, a pragmatic approach to tooling and automation, and the ability to translate complex data into actionable business insight. You’ll also play a key role in helping the company scale its financial maturity—ensuring we operate with clarity, discipline, and flexibility as we grow.

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Key Responsibilities

Planning & Forecasting

• Lead the company’s annual budget and quarterly reforecasting processes
• Develop and maintain multi-scenario financial models that support strategic and operational decision-making
• Partner with business functions to build accurate, data-driven plans across headcount, OPEX, CAPEX, and project spend
• Provide visibility on burn, run rate, variance to plan, and budget utilisation across the company

Performance Management & Reporting

• Deliver regular financial reporting and commentary for the leadership team and board
• Monitor financial KPIs across functions and flag emerging risks or opportunities
• Work closely with the Head of Finance to track and report company performance against long-range plans
• Develop dashboards and tools to improve transparency and accountability across teams

Business Partnership

• Act as a trusted finance partner to engineering, operations, and go-to-market leads
• Support project planning, resource allocation, and vendor negotiations with relevant financial inputs
• Drive proactive conversations around spend optimisation, trade-offs, and investment returns
• Support commercial teams with pricing, margin, and cost modelling

Tooling, Process & Systems

• Design and implement scalable planning workflows, templates, and financial systems
• Help evaluate and deploy FP&A tools
• Drive automation and integration across finance and operational data sources
• Establish documentation and governance around planning inputs, assumptions, and outputs

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What We’re Looking For

• 6+ years of experience in FP&A, finance business partnering, or strategic finance roles
• Strong modelling and analytical skills, with the ability to build clean, scalable, and insightful models
• Experience in hardware, manufacturing, robotics, or capital-intensive businesses is a plus
• Excellent communication skills - you can distil complexity and frame trade-offs clearly for senior stakeholders
• Self-starter with a builder’s mindset - comfortable designing processes from scratch in a fast-paced environment
• Deep understanding of cost structures, capital planning, and cash flow modelling

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Bonus Points

• Prior experience supporting engineering, manufacturing, or supply chain organisations
• Familiarity with finance systems and data tooling (e.g. NetSuite, Looker, Tableau, Power BI)
• Experience preparing board-level reporting or working in investor-backed companies
• Exposure to unit economics, pricing models, and product lifecycle financials

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• Work mode: office full time/5 days per week, Paddington district (London) - 5 min walk from Paddington station - 5 Merchant Sq, London W2 1AY

Why Join Us?

• Help shape the financial architecture of a robotics company with global ambition
• Work on complex, interdisciplinary challenges at the intersection of finance, engineering, and operations
• Join a high-trust, high-ownership team where finance is a partner to growth, not just a checkpoint
• Play a key role in scaling financial excellence from first principles