Corporate strategic financial planning & analysis lead
Are you a commercially minded finance professional with a strong grasp of strategic planning, forecasting, and executive-level reporting? At TOPdesk, we’re looking for a corporate strategic financial planning & analysis (FP&A) lead to join our finance organization. This senior individual contributor role offers high visibility across the CFO and executive leadership team and plays a key part in shaping financial strategy through data-driven insights and business partnership.
- 32-40
- Senior position
- Hbo/wo
- € 4500-7000
- Delft
What are you going to do as corporate strategic financial planning & analysis lead lead?
Lead the corporate financial planning & analysis remit, driving forecasting, strategic planning, and executive reporting! You know how to deliver new financial analytics and monthly reporting activities, providing business insights that identify growth opportunities within the TOPdesk P&L. You’ll lead the annual budgeting process in close collaboration with cross-functional business partners and manage the monthly re-forecasting cycle with input from both functional teams and the executive leadership.
As our brand new corporate strategic FP&A lead, you’ll support quarterly reporting processes such as board reporting, MD&A, and QBRs, and identify business-critical metrics to measure performance and influence outcomes. A key part of your role will be to develop and own cash flow and balance sheet models, ensuring their accuracy and integration into company-wide planning. You’ll establish a culture of continuous improvement and support other company-wide and CFO-led initiatives as needed.
Your journey at TOPdesk will begin with identifying opportunities to assess performance against benchmarks and defining a project plan. By the end of your first three months, you’ll have evaluated long-term modelling processes, delivered a benchmark framework, and developed a cash forecasting model. Within six months, you’ll have released a fully functional long-term model, established a cadence for cash flow and balance sheet reporting, and partnered with FP&A colleagues to drive improvements where needed
Where will you end up?
At our TOPdesk headquarters in Delft, or in one of our offices in London (UK), Manchester (UK) or Budapest (Hungary). TOPdesk is an internationally growing software and consultancy company and the creator of the best service management tool in the Netherlands. With over 900 colleagues in 8 countries, we work together every day to make our customers’ services better, smarter and more fun.
You will report directly to the director of strategic finance and work closely with the CFO and executive leadership. You’ll collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders across finance, revenue operations, and customer operations, and play a key role in shaping the financial strategy of TOPdesk.
Are you our new corporate strategic financial planning & analysis lead?
We’re looking for someone who brings the following:
- A bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance.
- A minimum of 7 years of experience in financial planning & analysis, with a strong track record in business partnership. Experience in team leadership is a strong plus.
- Proven experience in cash flow forecasting and balance sheet modelling.
- Preferably experience in SaaS or software environments.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Outstanding analytical skills with the ability to synthesize data into actionable insights.
- The demonstrated ability to influence decisions at all levels of the organization.
- Self-motivated, proactive, and solutions-oriented with a continuous improvement mindset
- High levels of emotional intelligence and self-awareness.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships across teams.
- Experience with FP&A tools is required; administrator-level experience with Adaptive Planning is a strong plus.
This is what you do it for
The nicest colleagues, a laptop, and a salary that grows with you. That is a no-brainer, of course. But there’s more. Much more. In the Employee Handbook, you’ll discover all of our employment conditions.
10 to Grow
Devote 10% of your working time and a budget equivalent to 10% of your gross annual salary to personal development.
Paid parental leave
Receive your full salary for 9 weeks + 50% of your salary for 17 weeks. Why? Because parenting is hard work.
Volunteering
Simply do it during work time. Did we mention helping people is part of our DNA?
10 to Grow
Devote 10% of your working time and a budget equivalent to 10% of your gross annual salary to personal development.
Paid parental leave
Receive your full salary for 9 weeks + 50% of your salary for 17 weeks. Why? Because parenting is hard work.
Volunteering
Simply do it during work time. Did we mention helping people is part of our DNA?
The job interview process. This is how we do it!
1 You apply
You send your CV and cover letter. Within the week, you'll hear if we're going to meet.
2 Who am I speaking to?
During a phone screening interview, we’ll check if our expectations are aligned. If so, we’ll get together for the first interview.
3 First interview: expertise and responsibilities
Time to find out if your experience and skills make you the right person for the job.
4 Second interview: culture
You'll get to know TOPdesk, and we’ll get to know you! If you have the true TOPdesk spirit, we’ll meet again.
5 Third interview: meet the team
You’ll get to meet two of your peers to talk about the challenges and goals you’ll face.
6 Fourth interview: working at TOPdesk
We’d like you to meet more of your future colleagues and stakeholders.
7 Contract discussion
Everyone excited? Check! Time to draw up a contract and choose your start date.
8 Welcome to TOPdesk!
Once you’ve signed the contract, we’ll arrange everything for your first day. Let the adventure begin!
Got excited?
The button below will take you to the application form, so what are you waiting for? We look forward to receiving your cv and cover letter.
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