VP, FP&A

🔥 19 minutes ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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UFORCE

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501 - 1000 employees

🎖️ Defense

🔧 Hardware

🚀 Aerospace

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $50M Seed Round on 2026-03

Defense • Hardware • Aerospace

UFORCE is a developer and supplier of combat‑proven unmanned systems and integrated command-and-control/autonomy solutions for air, land, and sea operations. Their platforms are presented as battle-tested in Ukraine with thousands of combat missions and validated operational performance; the company emphasizes rapid iteration, sovereign production, and lower-cost deterrence compared with traditional military platforms. Offerings referenced include unmanned air (UAV), land, and sea platforms, C2/autonomy, intercept capabilities, and remote weapon station (RWS) integrations.

📋 Description

• Build and maintain the integrated financial model covering pipeline, sales capacity, hiring, production, revenue timing, margins, investment, and cash • Translate company strategy into financial targets, annual budgets, monthly forecasts, and quarterly reviews with the CFO and CEO • Run the end-to-end planning process, including templates, deadlines, challenge sessions, consolidation, version control, and forecasting calendars • Deliver reconciled monthly management and board reporting with budget and forecast analysis, cash implications, risks, and recommendations • Establish actuals handover processes with Accounting and Controlling • Analyze product, contract, and customer economics, including production costs, gross margin, cohort performance, and margin drivers • Link sales forecasts to contracts, delivery milestones, recognized revenue, and customer receipts • Track budgets, actual and committed spending, remaining funds, and projected overruns • Review hiring and investment cases for complete first-year cash and ongoing annual cost capture • Maintain rolling short-term cash forecasts and runway views with Treasury • Turn plan variances into funding, deferral, reduction, or stop recommendations; maintain decision logs and approval papers • Review quarterly spending ratios and cost trends and recommend actions • Prepare board and investor financial content and maintain due-diligence-ready models and evidence • Hire, onboard, and develop a small FP&A team across locations

🎯 Requirements

• Personally built a financial model from scratch that stood up to investor scrutiny • Experience leading, or working directly under the accountable lead on, the financial work for a major funding round • Experience turning funding strategy into targets, budgets, and corrective action • Ability to defend assumptions with boards and investors and maintain due-diligence evidence • Strong prioritization and decision-making judgment focused on decisions, deadlines, and cash risks • Ability to challenge budgets constructively and identify omitted or duplicated costs • Experience using reconciled figures, documented definitions, and controlled assumptions • Commercial understanding of manufacturing, government or defence procurement, deployment costs, and multi-currency operations • Experience managing analysts, reviewing their work, setting priorities, and developing independent owners • Hands-on, low ego, direct, and comfortable with scrutiny, incomplete data, and sensitive information • Willingness to check AI-assisted output and change and explain the model live • Nice-to-have: experience in defence, aerospace, hardware, or complex manufacturing • Nice-to-have: experience building an FP&A function in a fast-growing, post-funding company • Nice-to-have: experience across multiple entities, countries, or distributed finance teams • Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the country for which they are applying

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