Senior Manager - Corporate FP&A

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Role Overview: The Senior Manager – Corporate FP&A owns cash flow analysis, forecasting, and reporting for the group, and supports the Director – Corporate FP&A across consolidated financial reporting and analysis. This role is responsible for translating complex financial data into clear, actionable insights about cash generation, free cash flow conversion, and group-level P&L movements. The Senior Manager is a trusted financial communicator to senior management and internal stakeholders, helping to ensure consistency of financial narrative and quality of insights. Key Responsibilities: Cash Flow Analysis & Reporting - Own group cash flow analysis and reporting as the core focus of the role. Produce the monthly and quarterly cash flow reporting pack, explain movements between forecast, budget, and actuals, and make the drivers of cash generation and cash usage clear to the CFO and senior management. Build the cash bridges that connect P&L performance to cash outcomes. Free Cash Flow & Cash Conversion - Analyze free cash flow and cash conversion across the group, including the working capital drivers behind them—DSO, DPO, unbilled and deferred revenue, collections performance, and the cash profile of the subscription base. Identify where conversion is leaking, quantify the impact, and work with commercial and operational teams to close the gap. Cash Forecasting Process & Systems - Own and continuously improve the group cash forecast model, cadence, and controls. Set the forecasting process across entities and functions, drive accuracy through variance tracking and back-testing, and automate manual steps where the tooling allows. Maintain a single source of truth for the group's cash position and outlook. Consolidated Financial Reporting - Support the Director – Corporate FP&A in coordinating consolidated financial reporting across the organization. Ensure consistency of data, methodology, and narrative across reporting streams. Reconcile variances, validate data quality, and drive continuous improvement in reporting processes and controls. Business Driver Analysis & Narrative - Analyze group-level P&L movements and their cash consequences: why did ARR change? why did gross margin move? what's driving operating leverage or expense growth? and how does each of these land in cash? Articulate the business drivers (volume, pricing, mix, productivity, retention, operational efficiency) in clear, executive-ready narratives. Provide context that helps the Board and CFO understand what's sustainable vs. one-off in financial performance. Financial Commentary Development - Develop monthly/quarterly performance narratives, financial presentations, Board commentary, and forecasting documents, with cash flow and liquidity commentary as a standing component. Coordinate across finance functions to ensure commentary is consistent, fact-based, and highlights the drivers of business performance. Liquidity & Financial Planning - Work with treasury and operations to model the cash and liquidity impact of business decisions. Provide early warning on cash constraints, funding requirements, or opportunities for deployment. Ad-Hoc Strategic Analysis - Support the CEO, CFO, and Strategic Finance team with rapid-turnaround analysis on strategic initiatives, business cases, market conditions, and operational performance. Build financial models that enable scenario planning and decision-making, including the cash implications of each scenario. Required Qualifications, Experience and Skills: Demonstrable in depth experience of financial analysis/reporting, with a focus on cash flow forecasting, analysis, and reporting. Deep expertise in cash flow forecasting, free cash flow and cash conversion analysis, and working capital drivers. Experience in SaaS or high-growth software companies. Proven ability to translate complex financial data into clear narrative and actionable insights. Strong financial modeling skills in Excel, including building and maintaining cash forecast models. Solid grounding in consolidated financial reporting and P&L analysis. Excellent communication skills; ability to present financial insights to senior management and C-suite. Experience managing or mentoring analysts within a finance function. Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field; CPA or MBA preferred. A persistent nature and a willingness to understand and overcome operational challenges/obstacles. Ability to understand processes and challenges, and navigate them effectively. Preferred Qualifications: Previous experience in a multinational technology company would be an advantage. Track record of improving cash conversion (DSO, DPO, unbilled and deferred revenue) in a subscription business. Experience automating cash forecasting or reporting in an EPM or BI tool. Exposure to enterprise planning tools (Oracle EPM, Adaptive Insights). Experience with financial controls, audit processes, and regulatory reporting. We believe that coming together as a community, in person, is important for innovation, connection and fostering a sense of belonging. Our roles have the right balance of remote and in-office working to enable flexibility for managing your life along with ensuring a real connection with your colleagues and the broader IFS community. IFS is a €1.5 billion revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters — at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge. At IFS, we're flexible, we're innovative, and we're focused not only on how we can engage with our customers, but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society's greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust. We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view. By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world. We're looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. If you want to change the status quo, we'll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.