- Senior
- Bureau à London
Elliptic is a high- growth SaaS business seeking an energetic, ambitious Interim FP&A Director to lead and elevate our FP&A function. This is a 6‑month contract (with potential extension), based in London with a hybrid working model, starting ASAP and reporting directly to our CFO.
Key Responsibilities
- Planning and forecasting
- Support and enhance rolling forecasts and scenario planning across base, upside and downside cases.
- Collaborate on annual and mid‑year planning, helping align GTM capacity, product roadmap and hiring plans with targets.
- Work with the team to translate company strategy into financial plans, targets, and metrics.
- Develop scenario analyses and sensitivities for key strategic choices.
- Revenue and GTM analytics
- Partner with RevOps and the FP&A team to enhance bookings and ARR forecasting, pipeline‑to‑revenue conversion, pricing and discounting guardrails.
- Expand cohort analysis capabilities for retention and expansion, including NRR, GDR and churn drivers.
- Support commission plan modelling and performance analytics.
- Performance management
- Contribute to monthly KPI packs and board materials - ensuring alignment on definition & measurement across functions.
- Help track Growth Efficiency Index, Burn Multiple, CAC payback and unit economics, and develop supporting narrative for investors.
- Work with functional leaders to establish variance analysis and corrective action routines.
- Business partnering and leadership
- Support the CFO and Execs as a thought partner, contributing to narrative for investors and board.
- Collaborate with and mentor the FP&A function, helping enhance tooling, processes and data quality.
- Work alongside the team to optimize cross‑functional data flow between CRM, billing, data warehouse and ERP.
- Fundraising and investor support
- Build and refine fundraising materials: financial model, metrics, and narrative.
- Support investor outreach with data-backed talking points and analyses.
- Assist in preparing and running the financial workstream for due diligence, including Q&A.
- Reporting insight and alignment
- Support on cross functional reporting alignment, sourcing from one version of the truth.
- Partner with Ops to ensure source data accuracy.
- Support identification of key KPIs and analysis for dashboards.
- Contribute to creating live dashboards for real time strategic decision making.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- Significant experience in FP&A or Strategic Finance, including scale-up environments
- Expert financial modelling and scenario planning skills
- Strong grasp of SaaS metrics and unit economics
- Exceptional communication: can simplify complexity for non-finance stakeholders
- Comfortable operating hands-on while influencing at Exec and Board level
Nice to have: fintech, crypto, or compliance/RegTech experience; experience with modern FP&A tooling, proven track record supporting equity fundraising and diligence
Job Benefits
> How we work:
- Hybrid working and the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year
- £500 Remote working budget to set up your home office space
> Learning & Development:
- $1,000 Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development
> Vacation/ Leave:
- Holidays: 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
- An extra day for your birthday
- Enhanced parental leave: we provide eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption, 16 weeks fully-paid leave and leave.
> Benefits:
- Private Health Insurance - we use Vitality!
- Full access to Spill Mental Health Support
- Life Assurance: we hope you will never need this - but our cover is for 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries
- £100 Crypto for you!
- Cycle to Work Scheme
