FP&A Lead

The role

The FP&A Lead takes ownership of group FP&A including reporting, modelling, planning, systems, and a team. You will build the architecture of a finance function and provide analysis for the board, investors, lenders, and ExCo.

What you will do

• Own group reporting to the board, investors and third parties
• Build tailored models and figures for lenders, prospective investors and advisors
• Architect the financial model as one source with several scenarios
• Orchestrate the end-to-end planning cycle
• Provide management control across the group's entities
• Structure the finance data foundation
• Embed AI into FP&A workflows
• Model strategic scenarios such as new countries, M&A and cross-perimeter arbitrations
• Lead and develop the FP&A team

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in FP&A or finance leadership, including team management
• Track record of building and owning a board-grade financial model with several scenarios
• Experience running budget and reforecast cycles in a multi-entity, multi-currency environment
• Comfort with ERP-driven reporting and automation
• Hands-on use of AI in finance work
• Credibility with investors and lenders
• Background in scale-ups or late-stage tech, or in industrial, aerospace or defense groups with contract-based economics
• Hands-on, structured and rigorous, at ease in a high-growth, ambiguous setting

Nice to have

• Strong quantitative or finance background (engineering school, business school or equivalent)

About the company

Harmattan AI is a next-generation defense prime building autonomous and scalable defense systems. The company is expanding its teams and capabilities to deliver mission-critical systems to allied forces.