FP&A Business Partner

Position: FP&A Business Partner

Reporting to: Director of FP&A

Location: Remote

Contract type: Permanent - Full time

About Cera:

Cera is the UK’s largest HealthTech company and one of Europe’s fastest-growing businesses – harnessing preventative technology and AI to take care out of Britain’s hospitals and into patients’ homes. We deliver care, nursing, telehealth and repeat prescription services in people’s homes via technology.

Cera’s proprietary, AI-backed tools predict more than 80% of hospitalisations and 83% of falls in advance, mobilising its frontline workforce of almost 10,000 carers and nurses to deliver timely preventative care in the community.

Cera delivers 2 million home healthcare visits a month. At each visit, Cera uses its pioneering technology to collect data on how our population is ageing, building one of the world’s largest tech-powered home healthcare datasets.

About the role:

This role is ideal for a candidate who thrives in a data-driven environment and is passionate about leveraging financial modelling to inform strategic decisions. The FP&A Business Partner will play a key role in transforming finance from a reporting function into a proactive, trusted advisor across the business. The successful candidate will enhance the quality of financial insight and contribute to evolving our monthly reporting process into a tool for action and accountability.

We are looking for a commercially astute FP&A Business Partner to join our growing finance team. In this critical role, you will act as a strategic finance advisor to Regional Directors and operational stakeholders, supporting them through insightful financial analysis, performance monitoring, and data-driven decision-making. You will help drive improved financial performance across our branch network and ensure alignment with our overall financial objectives.

Responsibilities:

Business Partnering:

• Build strong relationships with Regional Directors, Area Managers, and other operational leaders.
• Attend regular regional performance reviews, providing financial insight and challenge.
• Act as a trusted advisor, translating financial data into actionable insights.

Financial Planning & Forecasting:

• Support the annual budgeting and forecasting processes across multiple branches.
• Work with operational teams to develop accurate, bottom-up forecasts.
• Monitor actual performance against forecasts and budgets, identifying risks and opportunities.

Performance Analysis & Reporting:

• Deliver regular management reports with key financial KPIs (e.g., revenue, hours delivered, gross margin, staff costs).
• Investigate and explain variances, highlighting trends and operational drivers.
• Develop dashboards and reporting tools to support data-led decision-making.

Strategic Projects & Decision Support:

• Support investment business cases (e.g., new branch openings, service expansion).
• Analyse branch profitability, capacity utilisation, and labour efficiency.
• Contribute to ongoing financial process improvements and systems development.

Qualifications and Skills

• Proven experience in a commercial finance, FP&A, or business partnering role.
• Ideally experience in a multi-site or service-based organisation (healthcare/social care sector a plus).
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data sets and present findings clearly.
• Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency in financial modelling, Excel, and business intelligence tools (e.g., Power BI).
• Experience with financial systems (e.g., NetSuite, Sage, or similar) desirable.
• Fully qualified accountant (e.g., ACCA, CIMA, ACA) preferred.

General Company Responsibilities

• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI): Employees are expected to promote and uphold the organisation’s commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion by fostering a respectful and inclusive working environment.
• Health and Safety: Employees must ensure compliance with health and safety regulations and organisational policies, and take responsibility for their personal safety and the safety of others.
• Training and Development: Employees must engage in all relevant Company mandatory training, workshops, and learning opportunities.

Policies and Procedures: Employees must adhere to all organisational policies and procedures.