Job Description
Role Purpose
Senior Financial Planning Analyst-CO
The Senior FP&A Analyst will act as a strategic finance partner to operational and commercial leadership, translating financial data into actionable insight that accelerates growth, margin expansion, and enterprise alignment.
This is not a back-office reporting role. It is a forward looking, influence led position for a high performing analyst who wants to shape decisions, challenge assumptions, and directly impact business outcomes across a global services organization.
Description
This role sits at the heart of the OneGP transformation agenda. The Senior FP&A Analyst will act as a strategic finance partner to operational and commercial leadership, translating financial data into actionable insight that accelerates growth, margin expansion, and enterprise alignment.
This is not a back-office reporting role. It is a forward looking, influence led position for a high performing analyst who wants to shape decisions, challenge assumptions, and directly impact business outcomes across a global services organization.
Key Accountabilities
Commercial Performance & Growth Enablement
- Partner with business leaders to drive profitable growth, focusing on revenue quality, cost leverage, and operating margin improvement
- Lead financial analysis that informs pricing strategy, investment decisions, capacity planning, and service-line performance
- Identify performance risks and opportunities early, converting insight into clear, decision-ready recommendations
Planning, Forecasting & Enterprise Alignment
- Own the annual budget, rolling forecast, and long range planning cycles, ensuring alignment to OneGP priorities
- Move the organization from backward-looking variance reporting to predictive, driver-based forecasting
- Build scalable financial models that support scenario planning, growth initiatives, and transformation programs
Insight, Reporting & Executive Storytelling
- Deliver concise, high impact financial narratives for senior leadership, connecting financial outcomes to operational drivers
- Lead variance analysis with a root cause and action oriented mindset, not just explanation
- Develop and enhance dashboards and reporting using Excel and Power BI to enable self serve insight
Financial Governance & Data Integrity
- Ensure accuracy and integrity across income statements, balance sheet reconciliations, and key control processes
- Partner with controllership on close cycles, audit support, and data governance, without being anchored in pure accounting activity
Stakeholder Influence & OneGP Ways of Working
- Operate as a trusted advisor across finance, operations, and leadership
- Influence without authority, challenging legacy thinking and embedding a OneGP, enterprise-first mindset
- Contribute to continuous improvement of FP&A processes, tools, and standards globally
What Success Looks Like
- Leadership teams use your insight to make faster, better commercial decisions
- Forecast accuracy improves and surprises reduce
- Growth initiatives are supported by robust financial logic and scenario modelling
- Finance is seen as a value creator, not a reporting function
Candidate Profile
Experience & Capability
- Part or Fully qualified Accountant
- Degree qualified in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline
- 5+ years’ experience in FP&A, commercial finance, or business partnering roles, ideally within services, consulting, or matrixed global environments
- Demonstrated track record of influencing outcomes through insight, not hierarchy
Technical Strength
- Advanced Excel capability (modelling, scenario analysis, automation mindset)
- Strong Power BI or equivalent data visualization experience
- ERP exposure required; Oracle Cloud ERP experience advantageous
Mindset & OneGP Behaviours
- Commercially sharp, intellectually curious, and outcomes-focused
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and fast changing environments
- Confident communicator with the ability to simplify complexity for senior stakeholders
- Self-starter with the resilience and drive to operate at pace
Why Join GP Strategies
This role offers visibility, stretch, and real impact. You will be part of a finance function evolving into a strategic growth engine, with exposure to senior leadership and enterprise-wide initiatives under the OneGP model.
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