Head of Financial Planning & Analysis, Graphcore
+ Bonus and equity
2+ days a week in office
Advanced AI systems and services
Open for applications
Advanced AI systems and services
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
+ Bonus and equity
2+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make machine learning faster, easier and more intelligent.
Role
Who you are
- 12–15+ years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or investment-related roles
- Experience in high growth, PE-backed and multinational environments
- Strong understanding of technology infrastructure, hardware, or development economics
- Proven experience presenting to senior managers and leadership
- Advanced financial modelling and forecasting skills
- Working knowledge of IFRS / US GAAP, particularly relating to long term project accounting
- Strong people leadership and cross-functional influence
- Commercial and strategic mindset with strong execution focus
- Board-level communication and storytelling skills
- High ownership, accountability, and bias for action
- Ability to operate effectively in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
Desirable
- MBA, ACA, ACCA, or equivalent
- Background in AI infrastructure, semiconductors, data centres, or hyperscale cloud
- Experience with M&A, carve-outs, or integrations
- Hands-on experience with Anaplan, Adaptive, Hyperion, or similar platforms
What the job involves
- Strategic finance leader responsible for driving enterprise-wide financial strategy and planning, forecasting, performance management, and decision support
- This role partners closely with the CFO, senior finance, executive leadership, and the Board to deliver rigorous planning, transparent reporting, and actionable insights that support growth, decision making and ensures financial discipline as the business scales
- Strategic Planning & Value Creation:
- Own and maintain the annual operating plan, rolling forecasts, and long-range strategic plan
- Develop and maintain financial models and narrative to support scenario analysis
- Lead scenario modelling and sensitivity analysis (growth, capacity, headcount, opex and capex)
- Support capital allocation, ROI analysis, and investment prioritization
- Partner with leadership on M&A, integration, and ad hoc financial analysis and strategic projects as needed
- Executive & Board Partnership:
- Act as a trusted advisor to the CFO, CEO, and Leadership team
- Prepare materials for Board meetings and executive presentations
- Deliver clear explanations of performance vs. plan, risks, and corrective actions
- Support capital allocation decisions and liquidity planning
- Performance Management & Reporting:
- Own monthly performance reporting, variance analysis v’s budget/forecast, and executive reporting
- Define and track KPIs across opex, capex, and cash flow
- Drive accountability through data-driven insights and operating cadence
- Ensure alignment between financial results, operational metrics, and strategy
- Business Partnership:
- Act as a trusted finance partner with functional leaders, including Engineering, Operations, People and Supply Chain on:
- Capacity planning (compute, hardware, facilities, power)
- Capex planning (servers, clusters, networking, data centres)
- Cost modelling (headcount, third party engineering, T&E, other)
- Understand permanent and timing related spend variances
- Challenge assumptions and influence decisions using data-driven insights
- Translate complex technical and operational drivers into financial outcomes
- Team, Systems & Process Leadership:
- Build, mentor and lead a high-performing FP&A organization
- Establish scalable planning and forecasting processes and controls suitable for rapid growth
- Own FP&A systems roadmap (planning tools, BI, data models)
- Drive data quality, automation, and self-service reporting
- Partner closely with Accounting to ensure accuracy, consistency, and timely financials
Our take
The hardware required to train AI models comes at a high cost, both financially and environmentally, producing millions of dollars in expenses and hundreds of tons of greenhouse gases. In response, Graphcore develops accelerator chips designed to expedite AI system training while significantly reducing power consumption.
AI accelerators like those crafted by Graphcore specialise in enhancing specific AI applications, such as artificial neural networks, deep learning, and machine learning. Utilising multicore designs and prioritising low-precision arithmetic or in-memory computing, these accelerators elevate the performance of large AI algorithms, achieving breakthrough results in natural language processing and computer vision.
Graphcore has ambitious plans to create an AI supercomputer, aiming to be one of the most powerful in its class. However, progress on this has extended beyond its planned 2024 debut, and the company was purchased by Softbank later that year. Though the acquisition by the Japanese multinational lowered Graphcore's valuation and highlighted structural problems in the local financing of UK tech pioneers, the buyout will undoubtedly aid the company in its ambitions to shape the future of AI computing.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2020
$222m
SERIES E
Feb 2020
$150m
SERIES D
Total funding: $682m
Company benefits
- Work-Life Balance: We believe you should have a good work-life balance. Everyone's situation is different, so we offer flexible working arrangements and start and finish times, allowing you to choose when to work from home or come into the office
- Wellbeing: We want to ensure that our employees have the resources and support they need to prioritise their health and wellbeing
- Healthcare: We offer Private Medical Insurance (PMI) to our employees to help them take care of their health and that of their loved ones
- Progression: We prioritise learning and development as an integral part of our culture at Graphcore. Our Talent Development team is dedicated to equipping all our employees with the necessary tools, resources, and support to enhance their skills and reach their full potential in their careers
- Pension: We believe that our employees deserve the best when it comes to planning for their future
- Income Protection: Graphcore understands that unforeseen circumstances can happen, and we want to ensure our employees have the necessary financial security in place
Company HQ
Old City, Bristol, UK
Leadership
Nigel Toon
(Co-Founder & Exec Chair)Previously the President and CEO at picoChip Designs (processors for telecoms). As well as the VP and GM of Europe at Altera (semiconductors, merged with Intel).
Simon Knowles
(Co-Founder & CTO)Founded two successful semiconductor companies, Element14 and Icera, for a combined value of over $1 billion.
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