About the Role
The FP&A Manager, Delivery & Product Finance is the finance business partner to the Delivery and Product organisations.
This role supports Delivery and Product with cost/investment analysis, margin and ROI modelling, resource and capacity planning.
The role translates operational and product performance into financial outcomes, and provides the analytical backbone for services margin improvement and product investment decisions.
Key Responsibilities
Delivery Business Partnering & Services Margin
- Act as lead finance partner to Delivery/Operations leadership.
- Analyse drivers of services margin: utilisation, delivery mix, billable rates, cost recovery.
- Support project and customer profitability reviews; flag scope/overrun risk early.
Resource & Capacity Planning
- Partner with Delivery leadership on headcount, capacity and contractor-usage planning.
- Identify resource constraints and productivity opportunities; feed into annual planning.
Product Finance & Investment Cases
- Act as finance partner to Head of Product/CTO on product investment planning and roadmap economics.
- Build business cases for new features, build-vs-buy decisions, and AI/platform investment.
- Maintain product profitability and KPI reporting (revenue/margin by product).
Forecasting & Performance Reporting
- Own services revenue/cost forecasts and product investment forecasts, feeding the consolidated plan.
- Produce monthly margin, utilisation and product KPI packs with variance commentary.
- Partner with the FP&A Analyst to ensure data quality in the underlying reporting pack.
Key Activities
Weekly: Delivery leadership meetings; utilisation tracking; product initiative reviews
Monthly: Margin/KPI reporting; forecast updates; business reviews
Quarterly: Capacity planning; product portfolio & investment reviews
Annually: Budget input for Delivery and Product; long-range planning support
Success Measures
- Services gross margin achievement and improvement vs. prior year.
- Forecast accuracy for services and product-related revenue/cost lines.
- Quality and influence of product investment recommendations.
- Positive feedback from Delivery and Product leadership on business partnering.
Skills & Experience
Experience
- Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) or equivalent, 4+ years PQE.
- Experience in FP&A, commercial finance or business partnering within a SaaS/software business.
- Exposure to services/delivery economics and/or product investment analysis preferred.
- PE-backed company experience an advantage.
Skills
- Strong financial modelling and analytical capability.
- Comfortable moving between two stakeholder groups (Delivery and Product) and reprioritising.
- Clear, confident communicator able to challenge senior operational leaders.
Personal Attributes
- Commercially curious; comfortable with ambiguity across two domains.
- Self-starter — this role will need to build its own reporting cadence from a lower base than a single-focus specialist role.
First 12-Month Objectives
- Establish a single, reliable services-margin reporting framework for Delivery.
- Build a repeatable product investment business-case template and apply it to at least two decisions.
- Deliver at least one services margin improvement initiative with tracked financial benefit.
What’s in It for You?
- 25 days of paid holiday, with the opportunity to purchase up to 5 extra days (total 30)
- SHINE employee ownership program
- Company-matched pension contributions up to 6% of base salary
- Private medical insurance (Bupa) & health cash plan
- Life assurance (4x gross salary) & incapacity benefit
- Enhanced maternity leave policy
- EV company car scheme (salary sacrifice) & cycle-to-work scheme (salary sacrifice)
- Give as you earn charity scheme & paid volunteering day each year
- Career development opportunities (mentorship program, training, etc.)
- Home office support for remote workers
Flexibility & Work-Life Balance
We support hybrid and flexible working arrangements for all employees. We understand that life for many people involves school runs, care giving, or exercising!
Work Permits & Visas
You must already have the right to work permanently in the UK.
IQGeo is not able to sponsor work permits.
Diversity & Inclusion
At IQGeo, we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential to who we are and how we work. Guided by our values, we know that People Matter, and we are committed to building a team that reflects a wide range of nationalities, backgrounds, skills, viewpoints, and abilities.
We create an environment where everyone can bring their authentic selves with confidence, knowing they are respected, supported, and empowered to Deliver with Purpose. By embracing different perspectives, we Pioneer the Future together — shaping innovative solutions for our customers and our industry.
About IQGeo
At IQGeo, we help telecommunications and utility companies around the world “build better networks.” Our award-winning geospatial software empowers more than 500 organizations to plan, design, build, and maintain the fibre and energy networks that are essential to our connected, sustainable future.
Headquartered in Cambridge, UK with regional offices across North America, Europe, and Asia, we’re proud to be a carbon-neutral software company tackling two of society’s biggest challenges: universal broadband access and the transition to net zero. By joining IQGeo, you’ll be part of a global team shaping the networks that power our businesses, communities, and planet for the long term.
