FP&A Professional for AI Financial Scenario Evaluation

Lead financial planning and analysis for a short, intensive research engagement supporting a frontier AI lab. You will build, review, and evaluate high-quality financial planning scenarios, translate accounting actuals into operational decisions on spending, headcount, and growth, and contribute high-quality training data for frontier AI systems.

• Own and operate P&L analysis, annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, and monthly variance processes.
• Translate accounting actuals into actionable recommendations on spending, headcount, and growth.
• Create, review, and evaluate financial planning scenarios and forecast assumptions, including scenario stress-testing.
• Perform monthly variance analysis, budget to actual reporting, and committed-expense analysis for cost control.
• Produce management reporting and clear, decision-focused recommendations for non-finance stakeholders.
• Collaborate in daily live team sessions and respond to occasional evening messages as required by the project rhythm.

• Minimum 6 years of professional experience in FP&A, strategic finance, or finance business partnering.
• Direct experience owning a P&L, managing an annual budget, running a rolling forecast, and leading a monthly variance process.
• Proven ability to turn variance analysis into clear next-step recommendations for stakeholders who are not finance specialists.
• Experience with one or more of the following business types is strongly preferred: digital media and advertising, entertainment, subscription or membership businesses, live events, multi-location consumer businesses, or other commercially complex businesses with a substantial FP&A function.
• Experience with one or more of these FP&A activities: P&L ownership and management reporting, annual budgeting and departmental consolidation, rolling forecasts and income statement projections, monthly variance analysis, committed-expense analysis, forecast assumption setting, and scenario stress-testing.

• Engagement type: hourly, full-time commitment for the project period.
• Project dates: 10 August 2026 to 4 September 2026.
• Location: remote work, candidates must be based in the United Kingdom and operate on a UK business-hours rhythm.
• Team collaboration: live team sessions each working day, with occasional evening messages.
• End-of-engagement terms: two weeks of garden leave paid at the end of the engagement, with a one month non-compete running concurrently.
• Strong performance increases the likelihood of selection for future projects with the research program.

Hourly rate: 150 per hour.

• Candidates must be based in the United Kingdom and have the legal right to work in the United Kingdom.

• Initial resume and work history screen.
• Short interview assessing FP&A and management reporting expertise.