Head of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

Graphcore is a UK-headquartered semiconductor and AI compute company, now part of SoftBank’s global AI ecosystem. The Head of Financial Planning & Analysis is responsible for driving financial strategy and planning, partnering closely with the CFO and executive leadership to deliver insights that support growth and ensure financial discipline.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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