Director of Financial Planning & Analysis

When you join Exclaimer you will join a global award-winning SaaS provider with an exceptional revenue rate, ambitious growth plans, and an inclusive and outcomes-driven culture. Exclaimer is a high-growth SaaS company with 300+ colleagues across the UK, US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. We promote a people-first culture built on fairness, inclusion, psychological safety, and continuous learning. As we evolve into a multi-channel platform for branded business communications, we offer employees the opportunity to shape the future of global communication—while growing their careers in a culture where curiosity, creativity, and accountability thrive. We’re officially Great Place To Work Certified™ Exclaimer has been recognised by Great Place To Work® for our culture of collaboration, trust, and growth. This certification reflects our commitment to creating an environment where every voice matters and people genuinely enjoy coming to work. See our accreditations to learn more: Great Place to Work® UK | Great Place To Work® USA About the opportunity 👇 Role Summary We're hiring a hands-on Director of FP&A to own the planning cycle and analytical output for the business who has managed or generated financial models through clean data in order to d evelop a comprehensive understanding of the business and its strategic objectives and how they relate to financial planning activities. You will also have ownership of the annual group budgeting & forecasting process and the regular report packs for senior management. Furthermore, you will be required to deliver step changes to the quality and efficiency of the management reporting and forecasting. This is an execution and build role: forecasts, the annual plan, and the numbers being right, every time. The person in this seat leads a team, day-to-day, developing their technical and analytical capability, and partners with functional leaders and finance business partners across the business. We need someone who'd rather solve the modelling problem than sit in the stakeholder meeting about it. This is explicitly not a strategic, board-facing VP role. It's a builder-operator role for someone who wants to be the best technical FP&A person in the building. What You'll Own The planning cycle — building forecasts, owning the annual plan, running the recurring FP&A processes end to end The models — designing, maintaining, and improving the analytical infrastructure that FP&A runs on; solutioning our FP&A data setup and fixing what's broken in it today The team — leading day-to-day, coaching them on technical and analytical rigor The numbers — accuracy, consistency, and defensibility of the analytical output that goes to functional leaders and finance business partners Cross-functional partnering — working with department heads to inform (not dictate) resource allocation decisions through analysis and recommendation Success in the First 6–12 Months Has taken ownership of the FP&A data/model setup and materially improved its reliability and structure Is running the planning cycle and annual plan process with minimal oversight Has built credibility with the analyst/manager team as someone who can go deeper than they can technically Functional leaders trust the numbers coming out of FP&A without needing to double-check them Skills, Knowledge & Expertise ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualified (or equivalent), with a track record of building and owning FP&A models and processes end-to-end Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills — able to design, build, and rebuild planning models from scratch, not just operate within existing ones Strong working knowledge of financial data infrastructure and tooling (Power BI & SQL) — genuinely comfortable in the data layer, not just the output A numbers-first problem solver: able to think laterally, use own initiative, and challenge the status quo on how planning and reporting should be structured High accuracy and attention to detail, with a low tolerance for numbers that do…