FP&A Senior Manager

We are seeking an experienced FP&A professional to join Corio’s offshore wind business, contributing to the transition towards a low-carbon, sustainable global economy. This role involves project management and ownership of the medium-term business plan, including the Corporate Model, corporate overhead budget, and associated cost recoveries. The successful candidate will work closely with senior management, including the CFO. The ideal candidate will be intellectually curious, passionate about solving complex problems, and driven to deliver high-quality service and outputs in a challenging start-up environment. The ability to lead large projects, take a structured approach, and adapt quickly is essential.

The role will report to the Head of FP&A, the only other team member in a 30-person Finance department comprising: Accounting & Control, Tax, Treasury and Financial Project Management. As a lean team, the candidate must have the confidence and credibility to deputise for the Head of FP&A periodically and lead on workstreams. They must be a self-starter, able to work with minimal supervision, and handle complexity/ transformation effectively to generate and drive solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Planning (Budgeting and Forecasting):
• Maintain and enhance the medium-term business plan process and collateral, collaborating with various departments to drive a unified view of project economics such as selldown profit and development expenses.
• Track portfolio performance against plan and provide variance analysis to senior management alongside monthly business reviews.
• Maintain and enhance the short-term overhead budget/ forecast process and collateral, working closely with corporate departments to drive a unified view of cost categories including staff costs, services providers and professional fees.
• Track overhead spend and overhead cost recovery against plan and provide variance analysis to senior management alongside monthly business reviews.
• Develop data-driven insights of financial performance through maintaining and updating financial models.
• Identify and execute planning enhancement initiatives to manage overheads within budget.
• Improve transparency and accuracy of cumulative and year-end financials, focusing on the income statement (project economics, corporate overheads and cost recovery).
• Support forecasting of income statement and rolling 12 month cashflow.
• Provide timely analyses of group financial performance against specified scenarios, including revenues and costs.
• Gather and triangulate financial data to yield commercial insight.
• Convert raw data into meaningful information and actionable insight.
• Proactively guide and support senior management by interpreting financial data.
• Collaborate across teams and provide constructive challenge where needed.

Essential Skills:

• Proficient in project management and leading larger projects over several months with the ability to multi-task creatively and maintain well-organised records for audit trail purposes.
• Strong ability to engage in difficult conversations and drive necessary outcomes.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to maximise quality of business partnering and lead senior-level meetings.
• Self-starter, autonomous and adaptable through experience and aptitude.
• Operational and hands-on approach to lead by example and drive solutions in complex environments.
• Ability to create new analysis tools to meet changing business requirements.
• High mental agility to multi-task and problem-solve with limited groundwork and short timeframes.
• Experience in transformation/ change environments and overcoming associated hurdles.
• Strong Excel financial modelling and Power BI skills with clear understanding of financial statements.
• High commercial acumen to understand and anticipate project financial drivers.
• Embraces technology for process optimisation e.g. Power BI and ThinkCell.
• Cross-cultural adaptability including managing time zones.

Ideal Candidate:

• Minimum 5+ years of experience in FP&A roles across different industries to appreciate leading practice.
• Strong academic background (ideally STEM with a finance/ accounting qualification).
• Experience leading complex finance initiatives in global start-up companies.
• Proficiency in quickly solving financial problems and providing concise solutions.
• Significant experience building and maintaining intricate Excel financial models and Power BI dashboards.

Agile working: London based with 50% office (Farringdon).

Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

The diversity of our people is one of our greatest strengths, and an inclusive workplace enables us to embrace that diversity to deliver more innovative and sustainable solutions for our people, clients, shareholders, and communities. You'll be encouraged to be yourself and supported to perform at your best. If you're inspired to deliver on our purpose of ‘empowering people to innovate and invest for a better future’, we want you on our team. If you need adjustments made to the recruitment process, please reach out to your recruiter.

Joining this business means you’ll be able to work in a way that suits you best. With the right technology, support and resources, our people can work in a range of flexible ways. Talk to us about what working arrangements would help you thrive.

About Corio

Corio Generation is a specialist offshore wind business, dedicated to harnessing renewable energy worldwide. With a unique blend of sector-leading expertise and deep access to long-term capital, we work closely with our partners in the creation and management of projects from origination, development and construction, and into operations.

Our 30+ GW offshore wind development portfolio is one of the largest in the world, spanning established and emerging markets, as well as floating and traditional fixed-bottom technologies. These next generation offshore wind projects will help form the backbone of the net-zero global energy system while meeting the energy needs of communities and corporate offtakers sustainably, reliably, safely and responsibly.