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Financial Planning & Analysis Director

Posted November 20, 2025
Freelance

Job Overview

Elliptic is a high- growth SaaS business seeking an energetic, ambitious Interim FP&A Director to lead and elevate our FP&A function. This is a 6‑month contract (with potential extension), based in London with a hybrid working model, starting ASAP and reporting directly to our CFO.

Key Responsibilities

  • Planning and forecasting
    • Support and enhance rolling forecasts and scenario planning across base, upside and downside cases.
    • Collaborate on annual and mid‑year planning, helping align GTM capacity, product roadmap and hiring plans with targets.
    • Work with the team to translate company strategy into financial plans, targets, and metrics.
    • Develop scenario analyses and sensitivities for key strategic choices.
  • Revenue and GTM analytics
    • Partner with RevOps and the FP&A team to enhance bookings and ARR forecasting, pipeline‑to‑revenue conversion, pricing and discounting guardrails.
    • Expand cohort analysis capabilities for retention and expansion, including NRR, GDR and churn drivers.
    • Support commission plan modelling and performance analytics.
  • Performance management
    • Contribute to monthly KPI packs and board materials - ensuring alignment on definition & measurement across functions.
    • Help track Growth Efficiency Index, Burn Multiple, CAC payback and unit economics, and develop supporting narrative for investors.
    • Work with functional leaders to establish variance analysis and corrective action routines.
  • Business partnering and leadership
    • Support the CFO and Execs as a thought partner, contributing to narrative for investors and board.
    • Collaborate with and mentor the FP&A function, helping enhance tooling, processes and data quality.
    • Work alongside the team to optimize cross‑functional data flow between CRM, billing, data warehouse and ERP.
  • Fundraising and investor support
    • Build and refine fundraising materials: financial model, metrics, and narrative.
    • Support investor outreach with data-backed talking points and analyses.
    • Assist in preparing and running the financial workstream for due diligence, including Q&A.
  • Reporting insight and alignment
    • Support on cross functional reporting alignment, sourcing from one version of the truth.
    • Partner with Ops to ensure source data accuracy.
    • Support identification of key KPIs and analysis for dashboards.
    • Contribute to creating live dashboards for real time strategic decision making.


Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

  • Significant experience in FP&A or Strategic Finance, including scale-up environments
  • Expert financial modelling and scenario planning skills
  • Strong grasp of SaaS metrics and unit economics
  • Exceptional communication: can simplify complexity for non-finance stakeholders
  • Comfortable operating hands-on while influencing at Exec and Board level

Nice to have: fintech, crypto, or compliance/RegTech experience; experience with modern FP&A tooling, proven track record supporting equity fundraising and diligence

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