Head of Financial Planning & Analysis, Kooth
£90-100k
+ annual company share option awards
More information about location
Office located in Paddington, London
Personalised digital mental health care platform
Open for applications
Personalised digital mental health care platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
£90-100k
+ annual company share option awards
More information about location
Office located in Paddington, London
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create easy to access online mental health services that work alongside you to provide compassionate and effective support.
Role
Who you are
- Advanced financial modelling and forecasting expertise, with elite Excel and Google Sheets capabilities
- Strong FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, and management reporting experience
- Advanced analytical skills with the ability to interpret large and complex datasets
- High proficiency in AI tools, automation, and AI-enabled workflows to enhance planning, reporting, analysis, and decision-making
- Experience identifying and implementing process improvements that drive efficiency and business value
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills
- Strong executive stakeholder management and business partnering capability
- Confidence to challenge senior leaders and provide independent commercial insight
- Commercial acumen and strategic thinking
- High levels of adaptability, flexibility, and resilience
- Ability to operate effectively across UK and US teams and time zones
- Strong prioritisation skills and ability to manage competing demands during peak planning and reporting cycles
- Degree Level Graduate (with strong academics)
- 8 years+ Post-Qualification Experience (PQE)
- Proven track record leading FP&A or Commercial Finance teams
- Senior FP&A Track Record (SaaS, Digital Health, Tech, High-Growth plc, or PE environment)
What the job involves
- Reports to: Chief Financial Officer
- We’re looking for a strategic and commercially minded Head of FP&A to serve as a pivotal leader within the senior finance team
- This person will lead proactive, data-driven financial planning across the organisation, owning the end-to-end budgeting and forecasting cycle while providing clear commercial insight to support confident decision-making and sustainable growth
- Strategic Financial Planning
- Own and drive a best-in-class planning and forecasting function, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and actionable insights
- Lead the annual budgeting and monthly rolling forecast processes across all UK and US business units
- Provide challenge and independent perspective on strategic initiatives and investment proposals
- Management Reporting & Business Partnering
- Produce comprehensive monthly board packs that clearly analyse actual performance against plans and forecasts, highlighting key trends and data-driven recommendations
- Lead monthly business and performance reviews with senior leaders, partnering with them to evaluate variances, track cross-functional metrics, and enforce accountability against agreed targets
- Partner closely with departmental heads and the Executive Leadership Team to manage costs, optimise performance, and successfully achieve strategic initiatives
- Commercial Partnering
- Be the dedicated financial partner to the Chief Commercial Officer and Commercial department, translating commercial strategies and expansion plans into quantitative financial outcomes
- Review and pressure-test the commercial sales pipeline within Salesforce/CRM systems
- Apply weighted probabilities, sales cycle analytics, and conversion metrics to optimise revenue forecasting and capacity planning
- Evaluate, model, and sign off on all commercial proposals and complex enterprise contracts, tiered subscription models, and regional risk-sharing pricing mechanisms
- Leadership & Governance
- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing FP&A and business-partnering function
- Sit as an active, collaborative member of Kooth’s senior leadership group, championing a culture of commercial accountability, financial discipline, and strategic agility across the entire organisation
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Kooth offers free-at-the-point-of-access mental health care to more than 5.4 million people via NHS commissioners, corporates, social workers, GPs and schools across the UK. It provides a mix of community-created content, forum sessions with other community members, and one-to-one counselling via online chat.
All users sign up anonymously for the service and there's no digital tracking of session IP addresses - thereby providing a safe space where people can get the support they need. As a pioneer in online counselling, Kooth brings together emerging technologies with innovation in clinical practice and evaluation to create new models of care in mental health.
Kooth’s 2020 IPO came at a time when London listings were sparse. This was a testament to the important contribution its services made at a time when people and businesses wanted to prioritise well-being. Another point of success for the company was its 33% soar in share prices after a contract was announced to serve 13 to 25-year-olds in California.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- 28 days (plus Public Holidays)
- Yearly professional training programmes structured around you
- Pension contributions
- Remote Working
- Healthshield Care plan
- EAP programme, 24/7 Telephone Mental Health & GP
- Annual company share option awards
- Life Assurance (up to four times the amount of your annual salary)
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Incapacity Income Protection
Company HQ
Paddington, London, UK
Leadership
Kate Newhouse
(CEO)Also a SUpervisory Board Member of the European Dental Group. Previously Member, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care's Health-tech advisory board, CEO of Blenheim Chalcot and Doctor Care Anywhere.
Sanjay Jawa
(CFO)Previouslt Operating Partner at ScaleUp Capital and CFO at QualiTest Group.
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