Senior FP&A Analyst

Finance Manager – Group Operations | Guildford | Hybrid | Competitive Salary + Benefits

We’re partnering exclusively with a fast-growing international professional services business operating across multiple countries and complex multi-entity structures. With a strong reputation for service excellence, an entrepreneurial culture, and continued investment in its infrastructure, the business is entering an exciting phase of growth and transformation.

To support this journey, they are looking to appoint a Finance Manager, Group Operations to strengthen financial control, elevate reporting and drive operational excellence across the finance function.

The Opportunity

This is a high-impact, highly visible role at the centre of Group Finance.

You’ll take ownership of core finance operations while playing a key role in improving reporting quality, strengthening controls and driving meaningful process and systems improvement across the function.

It’s a role that blends hands-on finance ownership with genuine transformation,  ideal for someone who enjoys both running the numbers and improving how they are produced.

What You’ll Do

• Lead finance operations across billing, AR and credit control
• Strengthen financial controls, governance and regulatory compliance
• Support audit activity and liaise with external auditors (including Big 4 exposure)
• Improve month-end reporting accuracy, consistency and timeliness
• Enhance reporting packs, dashboards and KPI frameworks for leadership teams
• Analyse trends, working capital movements and “what-if” scenarios to support decision-making
• Drive automation, system improvements and process standardisation
• Identify inefficiencies and implement scalable, future-ready solutions
• Partner across the business to improve financial discipline and performance

What We’re Looking For

• Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA) with strong PQE
• Strong technical grounding in accounting, reporting, compliance and controls
• Experience in audit environments and stakeholder management
• Confident turning financial data into clear, commercial insight
• Comfortable working in complex, fast-moving or evolving environments
• Proven track record of improving processes, systems and efficiency
• Strong communicator able to influence senior stakeholders
• Experience in international or multi-entity businesses (desirable)

Why This Role?

This is a rare opportunity to join a business where your work will be visible, valued and implemented.

You’ll sit at the heart of Group Finance, playing a key role in strengthening reporting quality, regulatory compliance, financial controls and governance, while also driving meaningful process improvement and operational efficiency.

Crucially, this is not just a reporting role, it’s about understanding the story behind the numbers. You’ll be expected to step back, interpret what the data is telling you, and help shape better business decisions through stronger insight and analysis.

You’ll help build a finance function that is not only accurate and compliant, but also scalable, efficient and genuinely insight led.

What Makes It Stand Out

A role for someone who enjoys:

• Strengthening reporting, controls and compliance frameworks
• Improving systems, processes and ways of working
• Translating numbers into meaningful commercial insight
• Bringing clarity and structure to complex environments
• Seeing the tangible impact of their improvements

If you’re looking for a role where you can genuinely shape, improve and influence a growing finance function, while elevating both control and insight, this offers exactly that.

All applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

We will consider all qualified applications for this position. Venture Recruitment Partners does not discriminate against disability, sex, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, veteran status, or any other status protected under the Equality Act 2010.

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