FP&A Lead guiding financial planning for a pioneering deep tech hardware company. Collaborating across teams to deliver financial insights and maintain robust forecasting models.
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain short and long term cashflow forecasting models.
Working closely with division department heads ensuring accuracy of forecasts.
Develop and maintain inventory financial models that reflect hardware production cycles, COGS structure, and capital requirements.
Partner with operations to forecast and track inventory, logistics, and manufacturing partner costs
Build long-term planning scenarios that incorporate supply chain risks, inventory cycles, and gross margin improvement opportunities
Lead the annual operating plan and rolling forecasts, with a focus on variable production costs, unit economics, and scaling assumptions
Collaborate with product and engineering teams to quantify R&D investments and ROI
Deliver insightful financial and operational dashboards, KPIs, and board materials
Analyse actuals vs. forecast; provide variance commentary and insights to leadership
Monitor key deep tech/hardware metrics like gross margin, BOM cost trends, cash burn, and capital efficiency
Help implement scalable systems and processes across finance, ops, and supply chain
Ensure financial processes are audit-ready and aligned with investor expectations
Requirements
Chartered accountant (ACCA, ACA or CIMA)
3 + years relevant experience working in a FP&A environment
Extensive experience creating, maintaining and developing fully integrated financial models
Demonstratable business partnering experience across a variety of business functions
Comfortable in a scale up environment and able to adapt to the needs of the business i.e. working on strategic long-term forecasts to balance sheet reconciliations and variance analysis.
Good to have Experience with BOM cost modeling, inventory forecasting, or NPI (new product introduction) financial support
Background in deep tech, robotics, semiconductors, IoT, or climate hardware
Benefits
Competitive salary + significant equity in a mission-driven company
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