FP&A Manager

Black6; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An emerging AI infrastructure start-up in the United Kingdom is looking for an FP&A Manager to oversee financial planning, forecasting, and strategic analysis of their AI and data centre portfolio. The role involves leading budgeting, cash planning, and providing insights for expansion. Ideal candidates will have ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualifications and expertise in financial modelling with a strong analytical mindset. The position offers competitive compensation and hybrid working conditions.

Benefits

Competitive compensation package

Hybrid/remote flexibility

Opportunity to shape financial strategy

Significant exposure to leadership

Qualifications

• Expertise in technical accounting for supporting audit processes.
• Understanding of data centre economics and GPU/compute economics is desired.
• FP&A experience in high-capex sectors such as infrastructure or energy is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead budgeting, rolling forecasts, cash planning, and long-range modelling.
• Build capex, opex, utilisation, and ROI/IRR models.
• Prepare monthly reporting packs and KPI dashboards.

Skills

Financial modelling knowledge

Communication proficiency

Business partnering skills

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualification or equivalent

Job description

We are an emerging AI infrastructure start-up building next-generation data centres and high-performance compute environments to power AI, LLM training, and cloud-scale workloads, powered by renewable energy, rooted in sovereign capability, and designed to give enterprises and innovators the compute they need. Backed by leading investors, we are rapidly expanding our site development pipeline, engineering capabilities, and commercial partnerships.

As FP&A Manager, you will own financial planning, forecasting, and strategic analysis across our AI and data centre portfolio. You will also assess project viability, analyse capex requirements, model long-term returns, and provide insights that shape our expansion roadmap as well as dealing with a number of ad ’hoc requests as we gear up our operations and activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead budgeting, rolling forecasts, cash planning, and long-range modelling.
• Build capex, opex, utilisation, and ROI/IRR models.
• Prepare monthly reporting packs and KPI dashboards.
• Partner with Engineering, Operations, Real Estate, and Commercial teams.
• Support site feasibility, power procurement, and hardware lifecycle planning.
• Prepare financial materials for fundraising and investor updates.
• Improve FP&A tools, dashboards, and reporting processes.

Skills & Experience Required

• ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualification or equivalent.
• Expertise in technical accounting as you will need to support the financial accounting team and the audit process.
• Proven financial modelling knowledge.
• Great communication and previous business partnering proficiency.
• Understanding of data centre economics and GPU/compute economics - desired.
• FP&A experience in infrastructure, data centres, energy, telecoms, or high-capex tech - desired

Personal Attributes

• Highly analytical and commercially minded.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced start-up.
• Detail-oriented with strong strategic thinking.
• Able to collaborate effectively with technical teams.
• Self-starter, motivated, keen to learn and develop

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation package
• Hybrid/remote flexibility.
• Opportunity to shape financial strategy in a frontier technology sector.
• Impactful role with significant exposure to leadership.