Financial Planning & Analysis Director

Elliptic Enterprises Ltd.; City of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading SaaS company based in London is seeking an ambitious Interim Financial Planning & Analysis Director to enhance its FP&A function. This role involves planning, forecasting, and business partnering, requiring significant experience in strategic finance. The position offers a 6-month freelance contract with a hybrid working model and various benefits to support work-life balance and development.

Benefits

Hybrid working and work from anywhere for up to 90 days per year

Remote working budget of £500

Learning & Development budget of $1,000

25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays

Enhanced parental leave

Private Health Insurance

Full access to Mental Health Support

Life Assurance

£100 Crypto incentive

Cycle to Work Scheme

Qualifications

• Significant experience in FP&A or Strategic Finance, including scale-up environments.
• Strong grasp of SaaS metrics and unit economics.
• Exceptional communication: can simplify complexity for non-finance stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support and enhance rolling forecasts and scenario planning.
• Contribute to monthly KPI packs and board materials.
• Build and refine fundraising materials and conduct investor outreach.

Skills

Experience in FP&A or Strategic Finance

Expert financial modelling

Strong grasp of SaaS metrics

Exceptional communication skills

Hands-on operations experience

Job description

Financial Planning & Analysis Director

Department: Finance

Employment Type: Freelance

Location: London, UK

Reporting To: Bina Khatwani

Description

Elliptic is a high‑growth SaaS business seeking an energetic, ambitious Interim FP&A Director to lead and elevate our FP&A function. This is a 6‑month contract (with potential extension), based in London with a hybrid working model, starting ASAP and reporting directly to our CFO.

Key Responsibilities

• Planning and forecasting
  • Support and enhance rolling forecasts and scenario planning across base, upside and downside cases.
  • Collaborate on annual and mid‑year planning, helping align GTM capacity, product roadmap and hiring plans with targets.
  • Work with the team to translate company strategy into financial plans, targets, and metrics.
  • Develop scenario analyses and sensitivities for key strategic choices.
• Revenue and GTM analytics
  • Partner with RevOps and the FP&A team to enhance bookings and ARR forecasting, pipeline‑to‑revenue conversion, pricing and discounting guardrails.
  • Expand cohort analysis capabilities for retention and expansion, including NRR, GDR and churn drivers.
  • Support commission plan modelling and performance analytics.
• Performance management
  • Contribute to monthly KPI packs and board materials - ensuring alignment on definition & measurement across functions.
  • Help track Growth Efficiency Index, Burn Multiple, CAC payback and unit economics, and develop supporting narrative for investors.
  • Work with functional leaders to establish variance analysis and corrective action routines.
• Business partnering and leadership
  • Support the CFO and Execs as a thought partner, contributing to narrative for investors and board.
  • Collaborate with and mentor the FP&A function, helping enhance tooling, processes and data quality.
  • Work alongside the team to optimize cross‑functional data flow between CRM, billing, data warehouse and ERP.
• Fundraising and investor support
  • Build and refine fundraising materials: financial model, metrics, and narrative.
  • Support investor outreach with data‑backed talking points and analyses.
  • Assist in preparing and running the financial workstream for due diligence, including Q&A.
• Reporting insight and alignment
  • Support on cross functional reporting alignment, sourcing from one version of the truth.
  • Partner with Ops to ensure source data accuracy.
  • Support identification of key KPIs and analysis for dashboards.
  • Contribute to creating live dashboards for real time strategic decision making.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• Significant experience in FP&A or Strategic Finance, including scale‑up environments
• Expert financial modelling and scenario planning skills
• Strong grasp of SaaS metrics and unit economics
• Exceptional communication: can simplify complexity for non-finance stakeholders
• Comfortable operating hands‑on while influencing at Exec and Board level

Nice to have: fintech, crypto, or compliance/RegTech experience; experience with modern FP&A tooling, proven track record supporting equity fundraising and diligence

Job Benefits

» How we work:

• Hybrid working and the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year
• £500 Remote working budget to set up your home office space

» Learning & Development:

• $1,000 Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development

» Vacation/ Leave:

• Holidays: 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
• An extra day for your birthday
• Enhanced parental leave: we provide eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption, 16 weeks fully‑paid leave and leave.

» Benefits:

• Private Health Insurance - we use Vitality!
• Full access to Spill Mental Health Support
• Life Assurance: we hope you will never need this - but our cover is for 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries
• £100 Crypto for you!
• Cycle to Work Scheme