Senior FP&A Analyst at Aptia in UK London

Job description

• Aptia are seeking a commercially minded Senior FP&A Analyst to join our Finance team and play a key role supporting our Technology and Transformation functions.
• This is an exciting opportunity for a high-calibre FP&A professional who enjoys partnering with senior stakeholders, translating financial data into meaningful insight, and supporting strategic decision-making. Whether your background is in technology, operations, shared services, professional services or another fast-paced environment, we're interested in individuals who can bring strong analytical capability, curiosity and commercial acumen.
• Working closely with the Technology Finance Business Partner and senior Technology leaders, you'll help drive planning, forecasting, financial performance and investment decision-making across a significant area of the business.
• This is a hybrid role aligned to our London office 3-4 days per week (as required).

Responsibilities

• As Senior FP&A Analyst, you'll provide the financial insight and analysis that enables effective decision-making across Technology and Transformation.
• Supporting the annual budget, quarterly forecasting and long-range planning processes for Technology function.
• Delivering insightful monthly performance reporting, identifying trends, risks and opportunities.
• Building and maintaining financial models to support strategic initiatives, investment decisions and business cases.
• Analysing operating and project expenditure to ensure effective cost management and financial control.
• Partnering with Technology leaders to understand financial performance and support informed decision-making.
• Tracking strategic investment and transformation programme spend against approved business cases.
• Supporting month-end activities, variance analysis and management reporting.
• Developing reporting and dashboards that improve visibility of costs, performance and value delivery.
• Identifying opportunities to improve processes, reporting and the quality of financial insight.
• Supporting the Technology Finance Business Partner on strategic projects and ad-hoc commercial analysis.

Requirements

• We're looking for an ambitious FP&A professional who combines strong technical skills with the confidence to build relationships and challenge constructively.
• Professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
• Experience in FP&A, commercial finance, financial analysis or business partnering roles.
• Experience in a carve-out, PE-backed, or high-change environment is highly desirable.
• Strong budgeting, forecasting and financial modelling experience.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• The ability to interpret complex data and communicate key insights clearly to non-finance stakeholders.
• Experience producing management reporting and performance analysis.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience working with planning and reporting tools.
• A proactive mindset with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Experience supporting Technology, IT, Digital, Transformation or Shared Services functions.
• Exposure to technology investment appraisal, project finance or business case development.
• Experience with Power BI, Adaptive Planning, Anaplan, TM1 or similar planning and reporting tools.

Skills

Required

• Analytical and problem-solving
• Data interpretation and communication
• Stakeholder management and communication
• Advanced Excel
• Planning and reporting tools