Director, FP&A

Location: Bolton

Our client is a large multi-national manufacturing company.  They are looking for a Director of FP&A to join their team!
Excellent long term opportunities
Financial Planning & Forecasting
Develop robust revenue, margin, cost, and headcount forecasts based on operational and commercial drivers.
Translate business strategies into financial plans with clear assumptions, risks, and opportunities.
Support scenario planning and sensitivity analysis for service growth, pricing, labor utilization, and investment decisions.
Performance Management & Analysis
Analyze business performance by region, product line, customer segment, channel, and service offering.
Monitor and explain key drivers of performance, including labor utilization, absorption, contract profitability, attach rates, response times, and service productivity.
Provide actionable insights and recommendations to improve growth, profitability, and working capital performance.
Serve as the senior finance partner to service leadership, operations, commercial teams, and Customer Success leaders, providing insight and challenge on strategic priorities, business performance, and investment decisions.
Lead financial evaluation of pricing strategies, contract renewals, service program design, and capital or operating investments to support sustainable growth and margin expansion.
Provide proactive challenge and decision support to business leaders by identifying risks, opportunities, and trade-offs across growth, productivity, service delivery, and resource allocation.
Lead cross-functional evaluation of new service offerings, business models, and transformation initiatives that improve service coverage, utilization, fulfillment, cost efficiency, and customer value.
Sponsor finance and business transformation initiatives across Finance, including enhancements to processes, reporting, operating metrics, and decision frameworks that support growth, profitability, and scalability.
Present clear financial results and business insights to senior leadership.
Process Improvement & Governance
Strengthen forecasting accuracy, reporting discipline, and financial controls within the service business.
Drive continuous improvement in FP&A processes, planning models, and reporting frameworks.
Ensure alignment with corporate finance requirements, accounting policies, and internal controls.
Support month-end close and planning processes in partnership with accounting and finance teams.

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field required.
~ CPA, CMA, CFA, or MBA preferred.
~10+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, finance business partnering, commercial finance, or operational finance, including leadership responsibility.
~ Experience in a service, aftermarket, field service, maintenance, or contract-based business strongly preferred.
~ Strong financial modeling, forecasting, and business analysis skills.
~ Advanced proficiency in Excel and experience with ERP and planning/reporting systems.
~ Executive presence with strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, and the ability to influence senior leaders across functions and regions.
~ Proven ability to work cross-functionally in a fast-paced, performance-driven environment.
~ Understanding of service revenue models such as time and materials, service contracts, preventive maintenance, subscriptions, and parts/service bundles.
~ Experience analyzing operational KPIs such as technician utilization, service efficiency, contract margins, backlog, renewal rates, and service attach rates.
~ Familiarity with pricing strategy, labor productivity, installed base analytics, and customer lifecycle economics.

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco/Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to the individual’s skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, office location and other geographic considerations, as well as other business and organizational needs. With that said, as required by local law in geographies that require salary range disclosure, Vaco/Highspring notes the salary range for the role is noted in this job posting.

The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, and can participate in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company’s 401(k) retirement plan. Vaco by Highspring is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.
Vaco by Highspring and its parents,…