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
Be an early applicant
Personalised digital mental health care platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
£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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