A growing and international financial services business with substantial inward investment is looking to add talent to their expanding Finance team. The FP&A Manager will work closely with FP&A Lead, wider Finance departments and cross-functional teams to build strong partnerships across the business, ensuring high-quality financial insight and robust planning processes. This role will play a key part in understanding performance drivers across a dynamic trading environment spanning FX, crypto, brokerage services and more, supporting strategic decision-making and delivering clear, value-adding analysis. The successful candidate will bring a solid background in data driven analysis, with experience in budgeting, forecasting, and working with Power BI, delivering meaningful financial reports.
Responsibilities:
- Be responsible for overseeing all aspects of financial planning and analysis, providing valuable insights to support in budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes.
- Develop and maintain financial models and Power BI dashboards to analyse performance trends by business segments and products, identify business drivers, and enhance dashboard capabilities to support with data driven forecasting.
- Review Daily PL and KPIs to ensure completeness, accuracy and timeliness.
- Prepare Group’s monthly flash PL, track performance against budget and provide insightful commentaries.
- Review business segment performance data, Monthly management packs and support the preparation of Group and entity-specific Board meeting materials, including drafting designated presentation slides.
- Drive process improvements across planning, reporting and data flows to enhance team efficiency.
- Provide guidance to the junior team members and act as senior analytical point within the team, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support strategic initiatives including automations/transformations, cost optimisation, revenue analysis and project evaluation.
- Support development of new tools and framework for analytics and performance tracking.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, and ACCA/ACA/CIMA preferred.
- Proven experience in financial planning and analysis as a manager or senior analyst.
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
- Experience in financial services, fintech and dealing with large/complex data sets.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to translate complex financial data into actionable insights.
- Strong proficiency in financial modelling, Microsoft Excel, Power Query and Power BI; experience with financial planning software. Python or SQL is an advantage.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively communicate financial concepts to non-financial stakeholders.
- Strategic thinker with a track record of driving process improvements and delivering results in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to thrive in a collaborative team environment and effectively manage multiple priorities.
The individual must be highly organised, proactive, and driven to add value by enhancing financial insight and decision-support across the business. They should be comfortable diving into detailed data and models, yet able to step back and interpret the wider commercial implications. The successful candidate will be skilled at identifying variances, uncovering root causes, challenging assumptions, and translating findings into clear actions. They must be able to reconcile complex financial issues, resolve discrepancies, and provide forward-looking analysis that strengthens forecasting accuracy and overall financial performance.
Benefits
- 25 days of holiday
- Bonus
- Pension contribution
- Private medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Life assurance
- Critical illness cover
- Wellness contribution program with access to ClassPass
- Plumm Platform
- Five volunteering days
- Give as You Earn initiative
- Learning and development programs
- Electric Vehicle Scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Season Ticket Loan
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What We Do
The LMAX Group is the leading independent operator of institutional execution venues for FX and crypto currency trading. LMAX Group is unique in offering market access to all FX customer segments, transforming the world’s largest asset class to an open, transparent marketplace with fair, precise & consistent execution.
LMAX Group services funds, banks, asset managers and retail brokerages in over 100 countries. The Group builds and runs its own high performance, ultra-low latency global exchange infrastructure, which includes matching engines in London, New York and Tokyo.
Headquartered in London, UK, the Group’s portfolio includes LMAX Exchange (institutional FX exchange and FCA regulated MTF), LMAX Global (FCA and CySec regulated brokers) and LMAX Digital (GFSC regulated institutional spot crypto currency exchange).
