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 a growing order book, Sperry Marine has ambitious plans for expansion. We are seeking a dynamic and commercially minded FP&A Analyst to join our Decision Support team. The team are responsible for enabling the business to make quicker, better-informed decisions through performance analysis, investment appraisal, financial planning, and forecasting activities.
This is a high-impact role with visibility throughout the entire organisation. Your daily mission will be to enable the business to make better decisions, whilst contributing to the development and continuous improvement of our Decision Support function, ensuring robust financial planning, meaningful performance reporting, and strategic analysis that supports our growth ambitions.
Key Responsibilities - Planning, Forecasting & Analysis
- Produce timely performance insight for business unit leaders and senior executives, providing clarity on key variances, risks, opportunities and recommendations to improve outcomes
- Partner with value stream owners and cost centre leads to ensure financial accountability and improve forecast accuracy, driving strategic actions where needed.
- Serve as a subject matter expert in developing business cases and applying a structured decision-making framework for resource allocation, including defining and measuring deliverables.
- Champion a culture of continuous improvement across FP&A and Decision support processes, identifying opportunities to streamline workflows, enhance data integrity, and reduce cycle times.
- Identify and drive the adoption and integration of new planning tools, data platforms, and technologies to increase planning agility, automation, and decision-making quality across the organisation
- Contribute the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) process, including scenario planning and financial modelling to support business planning cycles.
- Contribute to the translation of strategic plans into annual budgets, working closely with business partners to ensure alignment and ownership across departments.