FP&A Manager

FP&A Manager

Job Type: Full-time, Permanent

Salary Range: Competitive, Location dependent (see benefits section)

Location: IB (International Baccalaureate®) Global Centre, Cardiff or The Hague

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The FP&A function plays a critical role in enabling disciplined, forward-looking decision-making across the organisation. As IB continues to expand and modernise its Digital & Data capabilities, the scale, complexity, and investment profile of multiyear programmes within the Digital & Data Office (DDO) require dedicated, high-quality financial partnership.

The FP&A Manager will serve as the primary finance business partner to the DDO senior/leadership team, including Chief Digital & Data Officer, providing strategic financial oversight, planning, and performance management for a portfolio of large, multiyear projects and digital transformation initiatives. This role ensures that investment decisions, funding allocations, and programme outcomes are supported by robust financial analysis, sound forecasting, and clear commercial insight.

Operating as a front-office finance business partner, the position combines financial stewardship with business advisory responsibilities. The role is accountable for strengthening financial visibility across programme life cycles, enhancing cost discipline, and enabling proactive management of financial risks and opportunities associated with long‑term digital and technology investments.

Working closely with mainly DDO stakeholders, domain leaders, and the broader Finance and HR functions, the FP&A Manager will help translate strategic priorities into credible financial plans, ensure alignment between budgets and delivery roadmaps, and support leadership in making informed trade‑offs. The role requires strong analytical capability, confidence in navigating ambiguity, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders in a dynamic, project‑driven environment.

• Provide strategic financial partnership to the Digital & Data Office (DDO) to ensure investment decisions, business cases, and projects priorities are supported by robust financial analysis and aligned with organisational objectives.
• Own financial planning and forecasting for the DDO project portfolio, ensuring multiyear large project budgets, funding requirements, and resource assumptions are credible, transparent, and enable effective long‑term decision‑making.
• Deliver financial oversight of large, multiyear projects and initiatives to ensure cost trajectories, financial risks, and value realisation remain visible and actively managed throughout programme life cycles. Reporting to Head FP&A and CFO monthly on project and financial updates of large projects.
• Partner with domain and project leaders to ensure financial implications of delivery plans, scope changes, and prioritisation decisions are clearly understood and reflected in forecasts and financial plans.
• Strengthen financial governance and discipline across DDO investments to ensure expenditures are controlled, deviations are identified early, and corrective actions are supported by reliable financial insight.
• Lead financial modelling and scenario analysis for strategic initiatives to enable leadership to evaluate trade‑offs, funding options, and financial impacts of alternative delivery strategies.
• Support Head of FP&A/CFO, Board and FARM governance processes by preparing, validating, and presenting financial analyses, investment views, and performance updates to enable effective oversight…