Director Of Fp&A - Maternity Cover

Director of FP&A - Maternity Cover team.blue Global
• Worcester, England, United Kingdom

team.blue is an ecosystem of 60+ successful brands working together across 22 European countries to provide its 3.3 million SMB customers with everything they need to succeed online by offering best-in-class expertise and services.

team.blue 's brands are a mix of traditional hosting businesses that offer services from domain names, email, shared hosting, e-commerce, and server hosting solutions and, as specialist SaaS providers, adjacent products such as compliance, marketing tools, and team collaboration products. This broad product offering makes it a one-stop partner for online businesses and entrepreneurs across Europe.

The Director of FP&A leads team.blue ’s FP&A function and owns the group’s overall performance narrative and end-to-end planning process, acting as the primary architect of financial steering for the business. Leading a team of four, including the Heads of Reporting, Analysis & Central Business Control and Planning & Performance Measurement, this role ensures the CFO, Executive Committee, Board and shareholders receive a single, coherent and commercially credible view of team.blue

’s performance and outlook, and that financial planning and control disciplines are embedded consistently across the group’s multi-brand, multi-entity structure.

• Lead, coach and develop a team of four FP&A professionals, including the Head of Reporting, Analysis & Central Business Control and the Head of Planning & Performance Measurement, building a high-performing, career-developing function.
• Set the strategic agenda and priorities for the FP&A function, ensuring reporting, analysis, planning and business control disciplines operate as one connected team rather than in silos.
• Own resourcing, capability-building and succession planning across the team.

• Own team.blue ’s overall performance narrative, shaping how financial and commercial results are told to the CFO, Executive Committee, Board and shareholders/lenders.
• Ensure the group’s monthly and periodic reporting package is accurate, consistent, insightful and delivered to a demanding timetable across all brands and entities.
• Act as the senior-most FP&A voice in Board, shareholder and lender reporting, translating complex, multi-entity results into a clear, credible story.

• Own the end-to-end annual budgeting process and multi-year strategic/long-range plan, ensuring alignment between Business Units, Central functions, Group Finance and the Executive Committee.
• Own the rolling forecast and latest-estimate process, ensuring forecasts, actuals and plans remain fully reconciled and mutually consistent.
• Ensure target-setting and cascade of financial and commercial goals runs coherently from Group ambition down to Divisions and brands.

• Act as a key financial steering partner to the CFO and Executive Committee, translating financial and commercial performance into decisions on resource allocation, investment and risk.
• Own and evolve the group’s central business control framework, ensuring financial discipline, data integrity and a single source of truth across a decentralised group.
• Own the group’s performance measurement framework (KPIs, scorecards, OKRs), ensuring it reflects strategic priorities and is used consistently to steer the business.

• Own the roadmap for reporting and planning systems and tools, driving automation, reducing manual effort and increasing the analytical value delivered by the team.
• Represent FP&A in group-wide finance transformation initiatives, ensuring reporting, planning and control processes evolve with the business.

• CFO and other Executive/Leadership Team members
• Board members and shareholders/lenders
• Head of Reporting, Analysis & Central Business Control and Head of Planning & Performance Measurement (direct reports)
• Divisional CFOs and Divisional leadership teams
• Group Financial Controller and Shared Services…