Corporate Strategic FP&A Lead

At TOPdesk we help our customers to deliver better services. How? With great software and expert knowledge. Our ever-expanding team has over 800 colleagues in 8 countries, dedicated to making service management more fun and easy. Would you like the freedom to develop your skills in a flexible working environment? A TOPdesk career is the answer.

Job Description

What are you going to do as corporate strategic financial planning & analysis lead lead?

Lead the corporate financial planning & analysis remit, driving forecasting, strategic planning, and executive reporting! You know how to deliver new financial analytics and monthly reporting activities, providing business insights that identify growth opportunities within the TOPdesk P&L. You’ll lead the annual budgeting process in close collaboration with cross-functional business partners and manage the monthly re-forecasting cycle with input from both functional teams and the executive leadership.

As our brand new corporate strategic FP&A lead, you’ll support quarterly reporting processes such as board reporting, MD&A, and QBRs, and identify business-critical metrics to measure performance and influence outcomes. A key part of your role will be to develop and own cash flow and balance sheet models, ensuring their accuracy and integration into company-wide planning. You’ll establish a culture of continuous improvement and support other company-wide and CFO-led initiatives as needed.

Your journey at TOPdesk will begin with identifying opportunities to assess performance against benchmarks and defining a project plan. By the end of your first three months, you’ll have evaluated long-term modelling processes, delivered a benchmark framework, and developed a cash forecasting model. Within six months, you’ll have released a fully functional long-term model, established a cadence for cash flow and balance sheet reporting, and partnered with FP&A colleagues to drive improvements where needed

Where will you end up?

At our TOPdesk headquarters in Delft, or in one of our offices in London (UK), Manchester (UK) or Budapest (Hungary). TOPdesk is an internationally growing software and consultancy company and the creator of the best service management tool in the Netherlands. With over 900 colleagues in 8 countries, we work together every day to make our customers’ services better, smarter and more fun.

You will report directly to the director of strategic finance and work closely with the CFO and executive leadership. You’ll collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders across finance, revenue operations, and customer operations, and play a key role in shaping the financial strategy of TOPdesk.

Qualifications

Are you our new corporate strategic financial planning & analysis lead?

We’re looking for someone who brings the following:

• A bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance.
• A minimum of 7 years of experience in financial planning & analysis, with a strong track record in business partnership. Experience in team leadership is a strong plus.
• Proven experience in cash flow forecasting and balance sheet modelling.
• Preferably experience in SaaS or software environments.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Outstanding analytical skills with the ability to synthesize data into actionable insights.
• The demonstrated ability to influence decisions at all levels of the organization.
• Self-motivated, proactive, and solutions-oriented with a continuous improvement mindset
• High levels of emotional intelligence and self-awareness.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships across teams.
• Experience with FP&A tools is required; administrator-level experience with Adaptive Planning is a strong plus.

Additional Information

What we offer

• Base salary ranging from £60k to £80k in London
• 26 days of holiday per year, plus public holidays and your birthday off
• Consistent career development and support from UK Sales Director
• Workplace flexibility: a hybrid of home/office working
• 10 to Grow: An annual training budget equivalent to 10% of your basic salary to be used on a wide variety of training opportunities
• Client exposure within the first 1 – 2 weeks of starting
• An exciting, supportive, international, and multicultural environment that prioritizes employee wellbeing and a healthy work-life balance.
• Great company benefits including team outings and rewards, a generous pension plan, private healthcare, cycle-to-work scheme, tech scheme, Perkbox membership and more!

Please Note

The successful candidate must, by the start of the employment, have permission to work in the UK.

At TOPdesk, we’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, ages, identities, religions, disabilities, and with a culturally or linguistically diverse background.

Research shows that women and people from disadvantaged backgrounds are much less likely to apply for a role if they don’t meet 100% of the criteria. If you feel like you meet most but not all the criteria, and genuinely have a strong passion for & desire to learn, then we’d be happy to help you acquire those skills at TOPdesk and we encourage you to apply.

Please give us some background in your cover letter so we know how to consider your application. We embrace flexibility to allow our people to manage the changing demands of work, personal, and family life.