Director of FP&A - Maternity Cover

Company Overview

team.blue is an ecosystem of 60+ successful brands working together across 22 European countries to provide its 3.3 million SMB customers with everything they need to succeed online by offering best-in-class expertise and services.

team.blue's brands are a mix of traditional hosting businesses that offer services from domain names, email, shared hosting, e-commerce, and server hosting solutions and, as specialist SaaS providers, adjacent products such as compliance, marketing tools, and team collaboration products. This broad product offering makes it a one-stop partner for online businesses and entrepreneurs across Europe.

Purpose of the Role

The Director of FP&A leads team.blue’s FP&A function and owns the group’s overall performance narrative and end-to-end planning process, acting as the primary architect of financial steering for the business. Leading a team of four, including the Heads of Reporting, Analysis & Central Business Control and Planning & Performance Measurement, this role ensures the CFO, Executive Committee, Board and shareholders receive a single, coherent and commercially credible view of team.blue’s performance and outlook, and that financial planning and control disciplines are embedded consistently across the group’s multi-brand, multi-entity structure.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Ownership

• Lead, coach and develop a team of four FP&A professionals, including the Head of Reporting, Analysis & Central Business Control and the Head of Planning & Performance Measurement, building a high-performing, career-developing function.

• Set the strategic agenda and priorities for the FP&A function, ensuring reporting, analysis, planning and business control disciplines operate as one connected team rather than in silos.

• Own resourcing, capability-building and succession planning across the team.

Performance Narrative & Group Reporting

• Own team.blue’s overall performance narrative, shaping how financial and commercial results are told to the CFO, Executive Committee, Board and shareholders/lenders.

• Ensure the group’s monthly and periodic reporting package is accurate, consistent, insightful and delivered to a demanding timetable across all brands and entities.

• Act as the senior-most FP&A voice in Board, shareholder and lender reporting, translating complex, multi-entity results into a clear, credible story.

Ownership of the Planning Process

• Own the end-to-end annual budgeting process and multi-year strategic/long-range plan, ensuring alignment between Business Units, Central functions, Group Finance and the Executive Committee.

• Own the rolling forecast and latest-estimate process, ensuring forecasts, actuals and plans remain fully reconciled and mutually consistent.

• Ensure target-setting and cascade of financial and commercial goals runs coherently from Group ambition down to Divisions and brands.

Financial Steering & Business Control

• Act as a key financial steering partner to the CFO and Executive Committee, translating financial and commercial performance into decisions on resource allocation, investment and risk.

• Own and evolve the group’s central business control framework, ensuring financial discipline, data integrity and a single source of truth across a decentralised group.

• Own the group’s performance measurement framework (KPIs, scorecards, OKRs), ensuring it reflects strategic priorities and is used consistently to steer the business.

Systems & Continuous Improvement

• Own the roadmap for reporting and planning systems and tools, driving automation, reducing manual effort and increasing the analytical value delivered by the team.

• Represent FP&A in group-wide finance transformation initiatives, ensuring reporting, planning and control processes evolve with the business.

Key Relationships

• CFO and other Executive/Leadership Team members

• Board members and shareholders/lenders

• Head of Reporting, Analysis & Central Business Control and Head of Planning & Performance Measurement (direct reports)

• Divisional CFOs and Divisional leadership teams

• Group Financial Controller and Shared Services team

• External advisers (auditors, lenders, banks) on reporting and planning matters

Candidate Profile

Experience

• 12+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, financial reporting/planning or corporate finance, including several years leading teams at Head/Director level.

• Proven track record leading a full FP&A function (reporting, analysis, planning, performance measurement and business control) in a complex, multi-entity or multi-brand organisation.

• Direct experience presenting to, and steering discussions with, Boards, shareholders and/or lenders.

• Experience in a private-equity-backed, subscription, SaaS, hosting or technology business is a strong advantage.

• Demonstrated success building, leading and developing a high-performing finance team of five or more.

Skills & Qualifications

• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or a related field; professional qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CFA, MBA) preferred.

• Strong financial modelling, reporting and business control expertise, with fluency across planning platforms (Anaplan, Adaptive Insights or similar) and BI tools (Power BI, Tableau).

• Outstanding stakeholder management and communication skills, with demonstrated gravitas and credibility at CFO/ExCo/Board/lender level.

• Strategic and commercially minded, able to distil complex, multi-entity data into a single, clear performance narrative.

Strong people leadership skills, with a track record of building and motivating high-performing teams and developing future leaders.

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