Sperry Marine is a leading supplier of navigation, communication, information, and automation systems for commercial marine and naval markets. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, we have an extensive international presence across Europe, the Americas and Asia, employing almost 400 people across ten countries.
With annual turnover of c.$100m and strong order book growth in recent years, Sperry Marine has ambitious plans for expansion. We are now seeking a dynamic and commercially-minded Head of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) to lead our financial planning, performance analysis, and forecasting activities. Reporting to the Finance Director, you will be a strategic finance partner to senior leadership, responsible for driving insight-led decision-making across the organisation.
This is a high-impact role with visibility across the executive team. You will lead the development and continuous improvement of our FP&A function, ensuring robust financial planning, meaningful performance reporting, and strategic analysis that supports our growth ambitions.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Strategy
- Lead the FP&A function, providing financial leadership across planning, forecasting, budgeting, and performance analysis.
- Act as a strategic advisor to the Finance Director, Managing Director, and wider executive team, delivering financial insight to support key business decisions.
- Drive financial discipline across the business through effective stakeholder engagement and proactive forecasting.
Planning, Forecasting & Analysis
- Own and evolve the global Sperry Marine enterprise-wide forecasting model, ensuring it remains aligned with business strategy and accurately reflects performance across all key financial statements (income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow).
- Oversee the consolidated monthly forecasting process, collaborating with regional controllers, sales, operations, and product teams to incorporate real-time insights and business assumptions.
- Lead the delivery of monthly financial performance reporting for business unit leaders and senior executives, providing clarity on key variances, risks, and opportunities.
- Partner with value stream owners and cost centre leads to ensure financial accountability and improve forecast accuracy, driving strategic actions where needed.
- Champion a culture of continuous improvement across FP&A processes, identifying opportunities to streamline workflows, enhance data integrity, and reduce cycle times.
- Lead the adoption and integration of new planning tools, data platforms, and technologies to increase forecasting agility, automation, and decision-making quality across the organisation
- Manage the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) process, including scenario planning and financial modelling to support business planning cycles.
- Lead the translation of strategic plans into annual budgets, working closely with business partners to ensure alignment and ownership across departments.
- Maintain a structured process for cost centre budgeting, forecasting, and monitoring, ensuring visibility and accountability across support functions.