FP&A Lead | Immediate Start

Role: FP&A Lead

Length: 6-months with a view to extend/perm

Location: Melbourne / Hybrid

Sector: Private-equity backed Professional Services

Reports to: CFO

The Opportunity

Our client is a prominent, private-equity backed professional services group with a significant footprint across APAC. As the business continues to modernise its financial operations, they are seeking an ambitious Senior FP&A Lead to join as their first dedicated FP&A hire.

This is a "greenfield" opportunity. Rather than inheriting a legacy system, you will have the autonomy to architect the financial planning framework for a complex, multi-brand organisation. You will be the primary driver behind professionalising how the Group sets its budgets, forecasts, and how it evaluates its commercial drivers.

The Role

This is a high-visibility position designed for a "builder." Your objective is to move the finance function from reactive reporting to proactive, high-value strategic partnership.

Key Responsibilities:

• Greenfield Model Development: Build the Group's foundational budget and rolling forecast models from scratch, ensuring they are robust, scalable, and user-friendly.
• Revenue Logic & Integration: Develop complex models that link operational billing metrics to revenue recognition standards, providing clarity on the firm's primary income streams.
• Process Transformation: Audit existing data workflows and implement standardised FP&A processes across different business units to improve data integrity and reporting speed.
• Commercial Insight: Provide the Executive team with "what-if" scenario modeling and deep-dive analysis into margin performance and headcount productivity.

Technical Profile

• FP&A Specialist: 5+ years of experience in a dedicated FP&A or Commercial Finance role, ideally within a professional services environment
• Master Modeler: You possess advanced Excel skills and a proven track record of building integrated financial models (P&L, Cash Flow, Balance Sheet) from the ground up.
• Analytical Rigor: You have experience navigating high-volume billing data and can translate technical accounting requirements into commercial reporting.
• Change Agent: You are comfortable working in an environment of transition and have the communication skills to influence stakeholders during a period of process improvement.
• Systems Mindset: Experience with Power BI or EPM software (e.g., Anaplan, Workday Adaptive, or Jedox) is highly desirable.

Why Join?

This role offers a unique career milestone: the chance to define the FP&A function for a listed entity. You will have a direct line to the CFO and the opportunity to see your models become the standard for the entire Group.

Job reference: 06810-0013405002

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