Head of FP&A Full Time

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Marshall

Why join Marshall Land Systems in this role:

The Head of FP&A will lead all financial planning, analysis, and reporting activities for Marshall Land Systems. This is a key role in providing insight, challenge, and forward-looking analysis to support strategic decision making.

The business is entering an exciting new phase of transformation. This creates an exciting opportunity for an ambitious finance professional to shape the FP&A function and play a critical role in driving performance, value and long-term strategy.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Deliver robust budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial planning aligned with strategic goals.
• Provide timely, accurate, and insightful analysis to support senior management and C-Suite decision making.
• Drive continuous improvement in FP&A processes, tools, and systems.
• Support the Finance Director/CFO and Senior Leadership in creating shareholder value through financial insight and challenge.
• Main point of contact and escalations if the FD/CFO is unavailable
• Lead, motivate, and develop the Finance team to ensure high-quality outputs and professional growth.
• Ensure effective communication of financial performance and outlook across the business.
• Manage annual budgets, quarterly forecasts and business plans.
• Build and maintain robust financial models, including scenario and sensitivity analysis.
• Prepare high-quality financial reports, dashboards, and presentations for the Board & leadership team.
• Partner with operational and commercial teams to evaluate bids and sales opportunities
• Identify risks and opportunities in business performance, providing recommendations for improvement.
• Lead monthly performance reviews, ensuring financial results are understood and acted upon.
• Implement best-practice FP&A tools and processes to enhance accuracy, efficiency, and ins
• Establish the right sized FP&A team in conjunction with the Finance Director.
• Coach and develop team members, ensuring the function has the right skills and mindset to support a dynamic business.

Apply if you have most of the following:

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with significant post-qualification experience in FP&A or commercial finance.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, able to influence at senior levels.
• Resilient, proactive, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, change-oriented environment.
• Ambitious, career-driven, with the aspiration to progress to Finance Director or CFO.
• Proven track record in a complex, project-driven, engineering or manufacturing environment (defence sector experience advantageous but not essential).
• Strong analytical, modelling, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate data into actionable insight.
• Experience is influencing and leading cross functional teams

The benefits we will offer you include:

• 27 days holiday increasing with service up to 30 days (option to buy /sell)
• Pension contributions up to 9%
• Private medical insurance for you and your partner
• Extensive flexible benefit program including Cycle to Work
• Life assurance at 4x basic salary
• Enhanced parental leave and pay
• Paid volunteering leave
• Access to industry leading wellbeing resources and tools