FP&A Operations Business Partner

Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth. The FP&A Operations Business Partner will be the senior business and financial operations leader for D&E. This hands-on role will partner with D&E leadership and Ankura Business Services functions to translate strategy into measurable financial and operating performance, strengthen planning and forecasting, improve management insight, and establish consistent operating rhythms across a complex global business.

This position is intentionally centered on FP&A, performance management, and business operations. The successful candidate will bring the financial fluency to challenge assumptions and interpret business results, together with the operating judgment to turn analysis into decisions, accountability, and sustained execution.

• Own and continuously improve the D&E annual business planning, budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and long-range planning processes in partnership with Business Group leadership and central Finance.
• Develop integrated financial and operating models that connect revenue, pipeline, backlog, pricing, utilization, headcount, compensation, operating expense, and cash performance.
• Lead monthly and quarterly business performance reviews, including actual versus budget and forecast analysis, trend identification, risk and opportunity assessment, and clear explanations of material variances.
• Produce concise, decision-oriented reporting packages and presentations for D&E and firm leadership, with a consistent view of performance across practices and regions.
• Monitor the economic health of the business through relevant measures such as revenue, margin, EBITDA, utilization, realization and leakage, engagement profitability, accounts receivable, DSO, expenses, and operating costs.
• Build scenarios and sensitivity analyses to support growth investments, workforce choices, pricing decisions, restructuring or sun setting activities, and other strategic trade-offs.
• Establish a clear management cadence for forecasting, financial reviews, workforce planning, commercial reviews, and follow-through on agreed actions.
• Translate Business Group priorities into practical operating plans, milestones, owners, and measurable outcomes; surface dependencies and execution risks early.
• Standardize core operating processes and management information across D&E while allowing for appropriate regional and practice-level differences.
• Partner with Accounting and Finance on close, revenue review, accruals, accounts payable and receivable, reconciliations, and alignment of actual results with forecast assumptions.
• Drive continuous improvement in reporting, data quality, controls, workflow design, and technology-enabled analysis.
• Connect market, client, pipeline, backlog, and sales activity to forward-looking revenue and capacity plans.
• Partner with leaders on pricing strategy, margin modeling, commercial terms, new business reviews, and approval discipline, with attention to profitability and risk.
• Evaluate performance by client, matter, offering, practice, and region to identify where D&E should invest, improve, scale, or change course.
• Support business cases for new offerings, geographic expansion, alliances, acquisitions, and other organic or inorganic growth opportunities, including financial modeling and post-decision tracking.
• Promote pipeline hygiene and improve visibility into conversion, win rates, revenue timing, and delivery implications.
• Integrate headcount, hiring, attrition, capability, location, and leverage assumptions into financial plans and forecasts.
• Provide fact-based analysis for requisition, compensation, promotion, contractor, offshoring, and other workforce decisions in partnership with People and Finance.
• Monitor utilization, productivity, staffing mix, bench capacity, and resource deployment; work with leaders to improve alignment between demand and available capability.
• Create visibility into the financial impact of talent decisions and support proactive actions to protect delivery quality, employee experience, and margin.
• Coordinate effectively across Finance, Accounting, People, Technology, Marketing, Legal, and other Ankura Business Services teams without duplicating functional ownership.
• Lead, develop, or influence a high-performing business operations capability, clarifying roles, service expectations, and ways of working across the global group.
• Handle sensitive financial, client, and people information with sound judgment, discretion,…