Job Description
Reporting to the Director FP&A, the Senior Assistant Director - FP&A (AI Data Analytics & Automation) will supervise a team focusing on leveraging AI and advanced analytics. Ensure compliance with internal controls, FP&A, and provide actionable insights to business leaders.
The Senior Assistant Director, FP&A is accountable for building and scaling AI-powered FP&A capabilities, driving automated reporting, predictive forecasting, scenario modelling, and insight generation across the enterprise.
This role blends finance acumen with data science and process automation to deliver faster, more accurate, and actionable financial insights that inform strategic decisions.
You will lead a small squad to modernize forecasting, standardize enterprise metrics, and embed AI responsibly into FP&A workflows.
Key Responsibilities:
Predictive Forecasting & Modelling
- Design, validate, and operationalize predictive models for Revenue, Cost of Sales, Opex, Working Capital, and Cash Flow.
- Build driver-based forecasting and scenario analysis (e.g., Headcount, Grants Secured & Pipeline etc).
- Implement model monitoring (accuracy, drift, recalibration cadence) and document assumptions for auditability.
- Provide any ad-hoc financial management reports and financial analysis
- Develop and maintain enterprise-wide dashboards for self-help management reporting
Automation & Self-Service Analytics
- Automate monthly/quarterly Management Reports, variance analysis, and KPI dashboards using RPA, low-code tools, and data pipelines.
- Establish standardized metric definitions and data lineage for finance reporting (single source of truth).
- Enable finance teams with self-service analytics (Power BI/Planning Solution + governed data marts).
Data Governance & Quality
- Partner with Data Engineering to define finance data models, transformation logic, and master data (CoA, CRM, Grants Portal).
- Implement quality checks (reconciliation rules, anomaly detection, data completeness/consistency).
- Maintain model documentation, version control, and access governance aligned with finance control frameworks.
Stakeholder Management & Change Adoption
- Translate complex analytics into business-friendly narratives and decision-ready insights for Finance leadership, BU heads, and Sales Ops.
- Run change management (training, playbooks, adoption KPIs) to embed new tools and ways of working.
- Prioritize the analytics backlog based on measurable business impact (time-to-insight, accuracy, cost-to-serve).
Performance & Program Governance
- Define and track OKRs for AI & automation initiativestime saved, forecast accuracy improvements, cycle time reduction, and user adoption.
- Run agile cadences (backlog grooming, sprint reviews, release notes) and manage vendor/contractor deliverables.
- Ensure ethical and compliant AI usage (bias checks, explainability, data privacy, access controls).
Qualifications & Skills:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Data Science, or Engineering.
- 6 to 10 years experience in FP&A, Finance Transformation, or Data Analytics at least 2 to 3 years leading automation or predictive analytics initiatives.
- Demonstrated success implementing forecasting models, BI dashboards, or RPA in a corporate finance context.
- Strong knowledge of financial statements, consolidation, and performance metrics.
- Strong financial modelling and analytical skills.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel, ERP systems (S4/Hana, Planning Software), and BI tools, and AI-driven reporting, forecasting and automation technologies.
