Senior FP&A Manager

About us:

Wifinity was founded in 2007 to solve a problem-our armed forces were struggling with reliable connectivity. While living in barracks, often in remote locations, ordering a landline and booking in an engineer just wasn’t an option.

And that problem isn’t exclusive to the military, either. Students living in University accommodation, families visiting holiday resorts, or living in shared accommodation and retirement communities.

Conventional home broadband doesn’t always work for them.

Wifinity is different. We offer the same benefits as traditional broadband, such as super-fast speeds, WiFi, and secure and private networks, but none of the downsides. We even offer Pay As You Go and flexible contracts, so customers only pay for what they need without hefty penalties or long contract terms.

We take the complexity out of connectivity.

The Opportunity:

We are looking for a Senior FP&A Manager to own financial planning and analysis for the Group. This is a high-impact, hands-on role with visibility to the executive team, board, investor and lenders. You will own the annual budget, reforecast and rolling forecast cycles, long-range planning, the models behind major capital and commercial decisions, and the analysis and commentary that help senior stakeholders understand performance and choose between options.

The role reports to the Commercial Finance Director, has one direct report, a Commercial Finance Analyst, and sits alongside financial control and business partnering. You will build and own models yourself, while improving planning discipline across finance and the business and helping close the gap between senior stakeholder expectations and current systems, data and process maturity.

Key Responsibilities:

The role is built around five priorities..

Planning & Forecasting

• Own the annual budget process end-to-end, including the timetable, templates, assumptions, budget holder challenge and consolidation, building plans from operational drivers rather than extrapolation.
• Own the reforecast and rolling forecast cycles for P&L, cash flow, working capital and capex, including project phasing, pipeline assumptions, cash low points and risks and opportunities.
• Own the operational long-range model, including scenario, sensitivity and downside cases used to test funding requirements, keeping it robust, documented and usable by others.
• Drive forecast accuracy as a discipline, tracking variances back to their causes and tightening the assumptions, and the underlying data, that repeatedly prove unreliable.

Analysis, Insight & Decision Support

• Produce analysis that explains performance, not just reports it, linking variance, margin, mix and operational drivers to a clear view of what changed, why it matters and action required.
• Own the group KPI framework and the unit economics beneath it, keeping the set tiered, mutually exclusive and genuinely decision-useful.
• Support post-acquisition activity, including the financial integration of acquired businesses into group planning and reporting, where definitions, data structures and reporting conventions will differ from our own.
• Provide ad hoc analysis for commercial, operational and corporate decisions, often at short notice and from partial information, setting out assumptions, confidence level and what would need to be true to change the answer.

Reporting & Communication

• Own the forward-looking elements of monthly reporting and the planning and performance content within board and investor packs, ensuring output is accurate, consistent and presented to an infrastructure investor standard.
• Write clear, honest commentary that gives senior stakeholders a defensible view of where performance is heading, the basis of the numbers and the limitations in the data, using simple financial storytelling for non-finance audiences.
• Support any lending requirements, including covenant forecasting and testing, headroom analysis, liquidity monitoring and drawdown scenarios.
• Respond to investor and board questions with speed and confidence, including unplanned scenario questions, and present forecasts, scenarios and performance messages clearly.

Systems, Data & Process

• Act as the FP&A voice in the planned finance systems migration from Access to a new ERP, defining planning, reporting and data requirements and testing that they are met.
• Redevelop and maintain the planning environment, including a rebuild in Adaptive, so that forecasting is faster, better controlled and less dependent on manual manipulation.
• Work with finance and operational data owners to improve data integrity, definitions and lineage, identifying where information does not reconcile and proposing resolution.
• Automate recurring reporting and build dashboards, applying analytics and AI tooling pragmatically where it improves quality, speed or insight.
• Reduce key person risk by documenting models, standardising templates and making the planning process repeatable.

Leadership & Partnering

• Manage, coach and develop a Commercial Finance Analyst, setting analytical standards and creating the space for that person to grow.
• Act as a trusted partner to the executive team and to leaders across sales, marketing, delivery, network operations and transformation.
• Coordinate and challenge inputs from finance business partners, commercial pricing and project control so that group plans are consistent and credible.
• Raise financial literacy across the business, helping budget holders understand the drivers behind their numbers, drive their forecasts and translate finance into operational actions.

About you:

You are a commercially minded finance professional who is energised by building, improving and influencing, not just reporting. You are technically strong on modelling and forecasting, and comfortable translating commercial ambition into financial arithmetic. You can separate what matters from what is merely measurable, challenge assumptions with evidence, and form a defensible view from incomplete or conflicting information. You are organised, resilient under pressure and willing to roll your sleeves up in a business still building its planning infrastructure.

Essential experience:

• Significant FP&A experience, including demonstrable ownership of a full budget cycle and the reforecast process at group or business unit level.
• Strong three-statement modelling capability, with proven experience building and maintaining driver-based models, long-range plans and scenario and sensitivity analysis.
• Grounding in the technical building blocks of the role: unit economics, contract profitability and revenue recognition in long-term service contracts, cash flow and working capital forecasting, and investment appraisal using IRR, NPV and payback.
• Track record of producing material and commentary for board, investor and lender audiences, with the confidence to explain and defend the analysis.
• Examples of building planning or reporting from inconsistent data sources, and improving those inputs over time rather than continuing to work around them.
• Experience partnering with senior non-finance stakeholders, including at executive level, and presenting financial messages in a way that is clear, tailored and action-oriented.
• Evidence of improving planning and reporting processes, not simply operating those inherited.
• Line management or coaching experience, or a clear readiness to take on a first direct report.

Desirable but not essential:

• Experience in a private equity or infrastructure-backed business, including investor reporting, covenant reporting or lender engagement, or in an SME or scaling business where reporting disciplines are still being built.
• Telecoms experience would be helpful but is not essential; experience in a capital-intensive, contract-based or recurring revenue environment is more important.
• Experience of an ERP or planning system implementation, ideally Microsoft Dynamics 365, or of working with planning tools such as Adaptive, Anaplan or similar.
• Data fluency beyond Excel, including Power BI, Power Query, SQL or equivalent analytics tooling.

Qualifications:

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA), or equivalent qualification by experience.

  Advanced Excel, applied hands-on rather than through others.

• Ability to work with information of varying structure and completeness, reach a defensible view, and be explicit about assumptions and limitations.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills, with ability to turn complex data into a concise, decision-useful story.
• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business or a related quantitative discipline (desirable).

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package which includes an ‘Annual Leave Buy & Sell Scheme’, in addition to a remote first working environment, allowing our employees more flexibility when it comes to the importance of a healthy work / life balance. Please be aware that the successful applicant to this role will receive an offer which is subject to the satisfactory completion of a basic level DBS check.

At Wifinity we are committed to providing a positive environment in which individuals do not encounter bullying or harassment on the basis of protected characteristics which are identified by law (including sexual harassment).We are committed to treating candidates and employees with courtesy, dignity and respect.

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