FP&A Specialist

FP&A Specialist/Group FP&A Lead: Build Our Forecasting Function from Scratch

Remote (Ireland or UK) | Reporting to the Group CFO | Yomali

Why This Role Exists

Yomali has never had a formal forecasting capability, and that's about to change. We're a privately-held group of e-commerce businesses (HelpGrid, BuyGoods, MaxWeb and more). Today our leaders don't have a consistent way to forecast revenue and costs, understand variance, or be held accountable to their numbers. We're building that capability from the ground up. The forecasting model will be built in Excel and loaded into Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central for reporting against actuals. We need someone who has built models like this before to lead the build. This isn't a role where you inherit a working model and keep the lights on. You're building the model.

What You'll Own

• Design, build and maintain our driver-based Excel forecasting and budgeting model, starting with HelpGrid, BuyGoods and MaxWeb
• Load the outputs into Business Central and report forecast versus actual
• Own the accountability loop, making sure business leaders understand, use and stand behind their forecasts
• Build visibility of the cost base down to supplier level, working with our Financial Controllers
• Run what-if and scenario analysis for leadership
• Evolve the model as we grow, so it scales and can move into a dedicated planning platform when the time is right

You’ll work directly with our Group CFO, Financial Controllers and business unit leaders, with real autonomy and real visibility into how the business runs.

What Success Looks Like

First 3–6 months: The foundations of the Excel forecasting model are in place. The revenue and cost drivers for HelpGrid, BuyGoods and MaxWeb are built and tested, and the outputs are loading into Business Central.

12 months: A full 12-month budget is built and loaded. There's a regular rhythm of forecast‑versus‑actual conversations between Finance and business leaders, who use Finance's numbers in their own performance reviews. Supplier‑level spend reporting is live.

What We're Looking For

• Substantial hands‑on FP&A experience , including having personally built a driver-based forecasting or budgeting model in Excel from scratch, not just maintained or administered one that already existed
• Advanced Excel financial modelling: scenario analysis, clear model structure and integrity checks. You should also be comfortable reviewing and improving a model someone else built
• Comfortable owning forecast‑vs‑actual conversations directly with business stakeholders, including pushing back when the numbers don't add up
• Able to explain the numbers clearly to non‑finance leaders
• Genuinely energised by complex "what‑if" modelling, not just running the base forecast but exploring what a new market or acquisition could look like
• Able to work autonomously, without a team beneath you or an established playbook to follow
• Experience loading budget or forecast data into an ERP and reporting against actuals is helpful. Business Central or NAV is a plus, but any ERP (Oracle, SAP, Sage, Workday, NetSuite or similar) is fine
• Experience with a dedicated planning platform (Anaplan, Vena, Planful, Adaptive, Datarails, Pigment or similar) is a bonus, not a requirement
• Professional finance qualification (CIMA/CGMA, ACCA, ACA or equivalent) preferred, not required

Who Thrives Here

You’ll do well here if you’re the kind of person who gets excited by ambiguity rather than overwhelmed by it. There's no existing FP&A team to lean on. You'll be it, with our CFO backing you up. You'll need to be strategic about sequencing (one business at a time, not all three at once) and comfortable holding your ground with senior stakeholders who are new to forecasting. This role won't suit someone who needs an established process, a team of analysts to delegate to, or quick, fully‑validated wins in the first few months. It will suit someone who wants to point at a forecasting capability in a year's time and say "I built that."

Why People Stay / Love Working Here

Our finance team spans Malta, Switzerland, the Philippines and the UK & Ireland, around 11 people in Finance and roughly 600 across the wider Group. The culture is genuinely open: people want to evolve how things are done, there's no bureaucracy slowing you down, and our CFO leads by trusting people to own their remit rather than micromanaging it.

What’s In It For You

• Genuine ownership: you're not maintaining someone else's model, you're building the Group's forecasting capability from day one
• Direct access and visibility: you'll work closely with the Group CFO and business unit leaders, not buried in a large finance function
• Fully remote, 9am–5pm UK/Ireland time
• Competitive salary: Ireland: €68,000–€92,000 base | UK: £62,000–£82,000 base
• A rare chance to shape how an entire Group forecasts and makes decisions. This isn't a role you'll find advertised often

Interview Process

• Initial conversation with Talent
• Interview with Group CFO, e.g. a forecasting scenario or model walk‑through
• Final stakeholder conversation with CEO and Group CFO

We move quickly and keep candidates informed at every stage.

About Yomali

Yomali is a privately-held group of e-commerce businesses, including HelpGrid, BuyGoods and MaxWeb, operating fully remotely across the globe. We're a lean, close-knit organisation where finance, operations and leadership work closely together — and where the person who builds something owns it. Permanent capital model — no outside investor pressure for a quick exit, which lets the business plan long‑term and protect culture rather than chase short‑term numbers. 600+ team members across 42 countries, driving $1B+ in online sales volume. 10+ autonomous businesses, each with its own CEO, management team and brand — decentralized, not a single monolithic company. Founded 2019 with a "Build, Buy, Grow" philosophy, hands‑on operator experience rather than pure capital. Yomali is a privately held group of software businesses, founded in 2019. We build, buy, and grow SaaS companies using a permanent capital model, which means we own businesses for the long term rather than preparing them for sale. The group was founded to deliver eCommerce solutions for challenged verticals and has since grown to 10 autonomous businesses. Each one has its own CEO, management team, brand, and business model. Our products serve businesses in vertical and underserved markets, and together they drive around $1 billion in online sales volume. We also partner with founders looking for a long‑term home for their software company.