Main purpose

The IT FP&A Manager is responsible for the financial management for the IT function, ensuring rigorous budgeting discipline, accurate forecasting, transparent cost allocation, and value optimisation across all IT investments and operations. This role acts as the primary finance business partner to IT leadership, translating technical strategies into financial plans whilst maintaining alignment with corporate FP&A standards and processes.

Key responsibilities

Budget & Forecast Management

• Implement quarterly rolling forecast cycles for all IT cost categories (Run vs Change, BAU vs Projects), ensuring

• Coordinate annual bottom-up budgeting exercises for IT, challenging historical spend patterns and driving cost justification from IT budget holders

• Maintain detailed budget models with granular cost centre and GL account level tracking across IT cost taxonomy

• Produce variance analysis reports (actual vs budget vs forecast) with clear commentary on drivers, corrective actions, and recommendations to IT leadership

• Develop multi-year financial plans supporting IT strategy and transformation initiatives

IT Cost Taxonomy & Allocation

• Define and maintain a clear IT cost taxonomy (e.g., Infrastructure, Applications, Cybersecurity, Data, End-User Computing, Projects) enabling effective cost management and decision-making

• Design and maintain allocation methodologies for IT costs to profit centres and business units using appropriate drivers (headcount, revenue, usage metrics, etc.)

• Execute monthly IT allocation runs and reconcile, ensuring transparent chargeback models

• Produce management reporting packs showing IT costs by function, region, profit centre, and cost category

• Support profit centre P&L owners in understanding their allocated IT charges and cost drivers

Process & Controls

• Own the end-to-end IT budgeting and forecasting calendar, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with corporate FP&A cycles

• Establish and enforce budget submission templates, approval workflows, and data quality standards for IT budget holders

• Maintain the IT cost hierarchy and chart of accounts structure in coordination with Accounting

• Implement controls to prevent budget overruns, ensure proper authorisation of expenditure, and maintain compliance with corporate financial policies and audit requirements

• Ensure robust financial governance across all IT spending decisions

Project Financial Management

• Track project budgets vs actuals at granular level with regular reporting to IT PMO and leadership

• Create metrics to monitor large project/programme ROI including benefits realisation - ensuring business cases are validated post-delivery

• Ensure robust business cases are defined upfront and revisited post-implementation to confirm value delivery

• Track capitalisation and amortisation of IT assets in accordance with accounting policies

• Support business case development for major IT investments and transformation initiatives

Required qualifications

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA) or working towards professional qualification

• 5-7 years' experience in IT finance, FP&A, or financial controlling within a technology or IT function

• Demonstrated experience establishing or significantly improving IT budgeting processes from scratch

• Proven experience managing IT budgets of significant scale and complexity in multi-entity organisations

• Strong understanding of IT cost structures including infrastructure, applications, cloud, licensing, and project costs

• Experience with overhead allocation methodologies and driver-based cost modelling

• Experience working in a matrix organisation with ability to influence without direct authority

• Background in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in commodity trading, financial services, or similarly complex industries

• Knowledge of cloud economics (AWS, Azure) and FinOps principles

• Familiarity with IT service management frameworks (ITIL, COBIT)

• Exposure to Big 4 consulting or internal transformation projects

• Previous role implementing new EPM/planning systems

• Experience managing small teams or leading cross-functional projects

• Implement project financial tracking with monthly reporting to IT PMO and leadership

• IT budget holder satisfaction score >80% on process efficiency and support

• Reduce IT budget variance to

Reporting Structure

Reports to: Head of Group FP&A
Dotted line to: Chief Information Officer (CIO)

Equal opportunity employer

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse workforce! We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or handicap, disability, or any other legally protected status.