Why Babble?
Babble is a Customer Experience-led growth business. As the ultimate Trusted Advisor for cloud-based technologies, we specialize in empowering businesses with the best solutions from the world's leading providers.
We are specialists in:
- Microsoft Modern Work
- Cybersecurity
- Contact Centre Technology
- Mobile Solutions
- Communications & Connectivity
With thousands of customers, we're just scratching the surface of our potential. Many of our clients currently benefit from one or two of our technologies, presenting an incredible opportunity to introduce them to our full suite of market-leading solutions.
Join us on this exciting journey and let's achieve greatness together!
About Us | Leading UK Cloud Solutions Provider | Babble
Job DescriptionJoin Our Dynamic Team as a FP&A Manager — Maternity Cover! 🌟
Are you passionate about telecoms? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment? At Babble, we’re on a mission to be our customer’s most trusted advisor for cloud-based technologies. We’re looking for passionate and talented individuals to join our dynamic team. If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!
What will you be doing?
Lead the Finance Business Partnering Function and to own Babble’s planning, forecasting and management reporting cycle, providing the CFO, executive team, investors and the wider business with the analysis and actionable insight behind commercial performance
Accountabilities and Deliverables:
- Own the annual budget and rolling reforecast, covering profit and loss, cash flow and covenant or bank reporting.
- Produce the monthly management reporting pack and board pack commentary, including variance analysis against budget and prior year.
- Maintain and develop the group planning model, including revenue, gross margin, cost and headcount forecasting.
- Business partner with Sales, Operations and Executive leadership on performance, pricing and cost-to-serve.
- Model and report recurring revenue metrics: monthly and annual recurring revenue, churn, ARPU, net revenue retention and margin by product line.
Strongly desirable
- Hands-on Workday Adaptive Planning as a model user, building sheets, reports and dashboards.
- Experience within a private equity-backed or acquisitive group, including post-acquisition integration reporting.
- Exposure to an alternative planning platform — Anaplan, Pigment, Board or Oracle EPM — as a proxy for Adaptive aptitude.
- Alteryx, Power BI or an equivalent visualisation tool.
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with three or more years post-qualification in FP&A or commercial finance.
- Demonstrable ownership of a full budget and reforecast cycle within a multi-entity group.
- Advanced Excel and financial modelling
- Recurring revenue or subscription business experience - telecoms, SaaS, or managed services.
- Evidence of becoming productive quickly in an unfamiliar environment; this role has a short handover period.
- A partnering mindset
Why work for Babble?
- Company Pension
- 22 days holiday Balance + UK Bank Holidays - with increased annual leave based on length of service
- Life Assurance – 4x Annual Salary
- Optional Health Insurance – Bupa
- Optional Health Cash Plan – Health Shield
- £1,000 payment after 10 years service
- Bike to Work Scheme
- Season Ticket Commuter Loan
- Charities Trust – Donations to charities pre tax
- Annual Company Celebrations
Hybrid-Working Policy
You will be contracted to work from the office however, Babble operates a Hybrid Working Policy whereby you will be required to be in the office on company anchor days (Monday, Tuesday and Thursday) and will be able to work from home on Wednesday and Friday. Unless your role has different requirements.
The recruitment journey
We want to fill this role quickly, but we want to get the right person. The recruitment process will consist of a screening call. If you proceed past this then you will have an interview and possibly a follow up interview and competency testing depending on the role requirements.
Direct Candidates Only
Babble | Leading UK Cloud Solutions Provider
Skills Required
- Qualified accountant with ACA, ACCA, or CIMA certification
- Three or more years of post-qualification experience in FP&A or commercial finance
- Ownership of a full budget and rolling reforecast cycle within a multi-entity group
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills
- Experience in a recurring-revenue or subscription business, such as telecoms, SaaS, or managed services
- Ability to become productive quickly in an unfamiliar environment
- Business partnering mindset
- Hands-on experience using Workday Adaptive Planning
- Experience in a private-equity-backed or acquisitive group, including post-acquisition integration reporting
- Experience with Anaplan, Pigment, Board, or Oracle EPM
- Experience with Alteryx, Power BI, or an equivalent visualization tool
What We Do
Babble Cloud is a leading UK-based cloud solutions provider specializing in business-critical communications and technology services. They offer a comprehensive suite of services, including unified communications as a service (UCaaS), contact center as a service (CCaaS), cyber security, and cloud infrastructure. Focused on serving fast-growing small to mid-sized UK corporates and larger enterprises, Babble helps businesses enhance productivity and collaboration through secure, scalable, and cost-effective technology solutions.
