FP&A Manager

Totara is an innovative, fast-growing technology leader in the learning and development space and provider of learning development and HR solutions for 1500 customers across a variety of sectors in over 150 countries. At Totara, you will find an army of talented, motivated, and ambitious people. Our team of 120 people across 3 offices in the UK, US and NZ has been growing steadily over several years and we are now looking to expand the business further. As a community that looks after each other, we value diversity, collaboration, and personal development.

As a FP&A Manager at Totara, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the Head of Finance and CFO to provide expertise and insight to help deliver leading financial, planning and analysis across the business.

We are looking for someone who can build strong relationships with our UK, NZ and US -based employees and who will become a trusted advisor and business partner, helping to guide decision making and drive efficient growth.

As our business is rapidly growing, you will have the ability to critically evaluate data and turn that into information for decision making. You will need to be a great communicator that can help influence internal stakeholders.

As you will be working with a rapidly growing SaaS business with evolving financial and commercial information needs which are underpinned by core customer data, it is important you have strong Excel and BI software capability, and an ability to pick up supporting core source systems quickly.

Some of the key focus areas of this role are:

• - build strong relationships as a trusted advisor across the business.
• Performance and analysis - provide best practice management reporting and modeling, providing strategic insight on the content of reports and performance against key metrics on the businesses core growth targets. Provide commentary and presenting financial results to the senior leadership team.
• - partnering on commercial and finance matters to our key stakeholders in our UK, NZ and US regional offices, including monthly performance, sales forecasting, pipeline review, customer margin analysis and pricing.
• - facilitate and support the business stakeholders annual budget and rolling monthly forecast preparation.
• - ongoing implementation of processes and systems to improve financial operations and reporting.
• - in conjunction with the Head of Finance and CFO, create and deliver the FP&A plan for the year ahead.
• - on an adhoc basis support financial analysis and business case development relating to strategic initiatives of the business.