Job Description

Interim Global FP&A Director

1,000- 1,300 per day Outside IR35

6-Month Contract

European Travel (two weeks out of 4)

We are partnering with a large, complex international business to appoint an Interim Global FP&A Director. This is a highly visible leadership role with significant exposure to executive and board-level stakeholders across a global operation.

This assignment requires an experienced, commercially astute finance leader with the gravitas, confidence, and credibility to operate at the very highest levels of a multinational organisation. You will lead the head office FP&A function while providing strategic oversight and leadership across multiple international operating entities.

This is not a traditional reporting role. We are seeking an individual who can challenge constructively, provide meaningful commentary and insight, influence senior stakeholders, and confidently articulate financial performance, opportunities, and risks at board level.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and oversee the Group FP&A function, driving best-in-class financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, and performance reporting processes.
• Partner directly with the executive leadership team to provide strategic financial insight and challenge.
• Deliver high-quality board and executive reporting, ensuring financial performance is clearly articulated and actionable.
• Provide leadership and oversight across multiple international entities, driving consistency, transparency, and accountability.
• Challenge assumptions, identify risks and opportunities, and provide commercially focused recommendations to improve business performance.
• Act as a visible and influential finance leader across the global organisation, building strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
• Support strategic decision-making through robust financial analysis, scenario planning, and business performance evaluation.
• Lead and influence senior finance teams across international markets.

Candidate Profile:

• Significant experience operating in large, complex, multinational organisations with revenues typically ranging from 750 million to 1.5 billion+.
• A strong background within industrials, manufacturing, engineering, heavy industry, or similarly complex operational environments.
• Previous experience leading Group or Global FP&A functions at Director or equivalent level.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills with the gravitas to influence and challenge executive and board-level audiences.
• A low-ego, highly collaborative approach combined with the confidence to be vocal, visible, and decisive when required.
• Strong commercial acumen and the ability to translate financial performance into clear strategic insight.
• Experience operating in matrixed, international environments with multiple operating entities.

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