Financial Planning & Analysis Lead

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Cloud Factory is looking for a Financial Planning & Analysis Lead who enjoys moving between modelling and serving as the embedded finance business partner for our Operations and Technology orgs.

You will report to the Sr. FPA Manager and work closely with the CFO in a private equity-backed environment where pace, rigor, and accountability are the norm.

• Collaborate with Finance Leadership on building and maintaining the consolidated financial forecast (P&L, Cash, Headcount Planning).
• Prepare executive-ready reporting packages (P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow) that highlight key performance drivers and risks to the annual plan
• Conduct deep-dive variance analysis (Actual vs. Forecast vs. Budget) and trend analyses to provide leadership with actionable insights into margin fluctuations and OpEx spending.
• Develop scenario and sensitivity analyses to stress-test assumptions around growth, client concentration, margin, and hiring.
• Assist in producing the financial narrative and supporting materials for board meetings, investor updates, and leadership reviews.
• Assist with the fiscal year planning and own the long-range models.
• Act as the team's subject matter expert on Abacum, owning model structure, data integrations, driver logic, and new use cases. Serve as the go to resource for other FP&A team members working in the tool.

• Partner with cross-functional partners and leadership on forecasts, budgets, margin improvement plans, workforce planning, capacity models, and operating cost structure that sits underneath Delivery and S&T.
• Partner with the engineering leadership on the technology budget, platform costs including cloud and infrastructure spend, SaaS and tooling, and capitalized vs expensed effort.
• Translate operational metrics into financial impact and vice versa, so operations leaders can see the P&L consequences of staffing, tech efficiency, and other delivery decisions.
• Review operating expense budgets, flag risks and opportunities. Support client and workstream-level reviews by pairing margin analysis (led by the workstream analyst) with the broader operations cost picture.

• 3+ years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or strategic finance experience, ideally in a SaaS, or tech-enabled services company.
• Strong three-statement modeling skills and a track record of owning a consolidated forecast or a meaningful slice of one.
• Comfortable with operational and engineering cost drivers and working with SLT: you do not need to have been a COO or CTO partner before, but you should be energized by the prospect
• Excellent Excel / Google Sheets skills. Experience with business intelligence software is a plus.
• Adept at using AI to avoid complexity in models.
• Hands-on experience with forecasting tools is strongly preferred. Candidates without direct Abacum experience should have deep proficiency in a comparable planning tool (Anaplan, Pigment, Adaptive, Cube, or similar) and the appetite to become our internal subject matter expert on Abacum quickly.
• A communication style that works with both finance and non-finance audiences. Ability to tell a clear, concise financial story to executives and also non-financial people.
• Proactive and can infer the finance leadership’s intent and progress confidently with low supervision.

• Critical and analytical thinker: you solve problems, challenge…