FP&A Director

Position: Director, FP&A
Department: Corporate Finance
Reporting to: CFO
Direct Report: FP&A Manager

Role Overview

The Director of FP&A will act as a strategic finance partner to the CFO and wider senior leadership team, providing high-quality financial insight, performance analysis, forecasting, and commercial decision support across the business.

This is a senior, hands-on finance leadership role with a strong operational and commercial focus. The position requires someone who can go beyond traditional reporting and provide clear, data-led recommendations around vessel profitability, fleet performance, pricing, operational cost drivers, working capital, and long-term financial planning.

The successful candidate will be expected to translate complex financial and operational data into clear executive-level insights, supporting key decisions around offshore vessels, barges, crewing economics, ship management costs, contract pricing, asset valuation, and future revenue pipeline.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Planning, Analysis and Reporting

Lead the preparation of monthly management reports, board packs, CFO reports, and senior leadership presentations.

Provide clear analysis of business performance, including variance analysis, margin movement, cost drivers, risks, opportunities, and forward-looking commentary.

Drive the annual budgeting process, rolling forecasts, quarterly reforecasting, and long-range financial planning.

Ensure financial models are regularly updated and aligned with operational, commercial, and strategic business plans.

Build and maintain robust financial models to assess vessel profitability, utilisation, margin drivers, return on capital employed, and overall fleet performance.

Support senior leadership with clear financial storytelling, ensuring reports and presentations are concise, commercial, and decision-focused.

Vessel, Barge and Operational Analytics

Own detailed financial analysis across the company’s offshore vessels and barges.

Analyse revenue, operating costs, crewing costs, maintenance, dry docking, downtime, utilisation, and profitability by vessel.

Conduct forensic-level reviews of key operational cost centres, including dry docking, major vessel maintenance, ship management fees, third-party service contracts, and crewing structures.

Review crewing models, manning levels, rotation patterns, and cost optimisation opportunities.

Analyse inventory across warehouses and onboard vessels to identify inefficiencies, obsolete stock, working capital leakage, and improvement opportunities.

Provide insight into operational performance and help leadership understand the financial impact of technical and operational decisions.

Commercial and Pricing Support

Lead and support pricing analysis for vessels on hire, tenders, contract negotiations, renewals, and new business opportunities.

Partner closely with commercial teams to ensure pricing decisions are data-driven, margin-focused, and aligned with market conditions.

Provide ad hoc financial and commercial analysis to support chartering, client negotiations, and strategic growth opportunities.

Assess day rates, contract economics, margin impact, and commercial risk across the fleet.

Support tender submissions with robust financial modelling, scenario analysis, and profitability assessment.

Market Intelligence and Strategic Insight

Maintain strong market intelligence across the offshore oil and gas sector, including vessel day rates, competitor positioning, utilisation trends, customer dynamics, and broader industry movement.

Translate market and operational data into practical insights for the CFO, CEO, and senior stakeholders.

Support strategic planning through analysis of market trends, customer demand, fleet utilisation, and forward revenue visibility.

Maintain and regularly update the backlog and pipeline to assess future revenue and vessel deployment opportunities.

Finance, Forecasting and Performance Management

Review and support the financial statement process, key reports, and financial data.

Highlight major variances against previous quarters, budgets, and forecasts.

Report on key financial metrics, including EBITDA, margin movement, cost performance, and reasons for material variances.

Produce and update quarterly data packs covering financial and operational performance, including weighted average day rates, OPEX rates, utilisation, vessel-level profitability, and other key performance indicators.

Manage the yearly fleet valuation process, including reviewing external valuations, challenging assumptions, performing sensitivity analysis, and providing recommendations to senior leadership.

Support the Director of Finance and wider management team with financial analysis, tax reviews, audit reports, financial statement reviews, and other ad hoc requests.

Stakeholder Management

Act as a trusted advisor to the CFO, CEO, Finance Director, and senior leadership team.

Work cross-functionally with operations, commercial, crewing, procurement, technical, treasury, investment, and business development teams.

Build strong relationships with department heads and ensure finance is seen as a strategic partner to the business.

Prepare and deliver high-impact presentations for senior stakeholders, clearly explaining financial performance, risks, opportunities, and recommendations.

Communicate complex financial insights in a clear, concise, and commercially relevant way.

Compliance and Governance

Ensure compliance with internal policies, procedures, and safety standards.

Support compliance with relevant maritime laws, regulations, conventions, class requirements, and any legislation impacting health and safety in the workplace.

Cooperate with the company’s safety, health, environmental protection, and quality management requirements.

Maintain confidentiality and discretion when handling sensitive financial, commercial, and strategic information.

Candidate Profile

Experience Required

12+ years of progressive finance experience, with significant exposure to FP&A, operational finance, corporate finance, or investment banking.

Strong experience in offshore oil and gas, marine services, shipping, or another asset-intensive industry is strongly preferred.

Proven ability to work closely with CFOs, CEOs, finance directors, and senior operational stakeholders.

Demonstrated experience in financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, financial modelling, and commercial analysis.

Strong exposure to vessel economics, asset performance, fleet utilisation, OPEX analysis, pricing, or operational cost analysis would be highly advantageous.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related discipline.

MBA, CPA, CFA, ACCA, CA, or equivalent professional qualification preferred.

Technical Skills

Advanced financial modelling and valuation skills.

Strong knowledge of FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, performance management, and variance analysis.

Advanced Excel capability.

High proficiency in PowerPoint, with the ability to build clear board-level and executive-level presentations.

Strong ERP and financial systems experience.

Excellent analytical and problem-solving ability.

Strong understanding of financial markets, economic trends, commercial drivers, and regulatory frameworks.

Behavioural Competencies

Commercially minded and highly analytical.

Confident, presentable, and articulate.

Able to influence senior stakeholders and challenge assumptions where needed.

Strong attention to detail while still being able to think strategically.

Comfortable working under pressure and to tight deadlines.

Able to operate independently with a high level of ownership and accountability.

Clear communicator who can simplify complex financial information.

High level of professionalism, discretion, and confidentiality.

Key Internal Stakeholders

CEO
CFO
Director of Finance
Director of Treasury
Director of Investment and Business Development
Corporate Finance team
Heads of Department
Operations, commercial, crewing, procurement, and technical teams

External Stakeholders

Banks
Regulatory authorities
External auditors
Third-party service providers
External valuation providers

Ideal Background

This role would suit a senior FP&A, finance, corporate finance, or commercial finance leader from an offshore oil and gas, marine services, shipping, logistics, heavy asset, or infrastructure-led business.

The ideal candidate will combine strong technical finance capability with genuine operational understanding, commercial judgement, and the ability to present confidently to executive leadership.