Hire Fractional FP&A Support · Fractional FP&A Jobs UK
Fractional FP&A Jobs · Hire a fractional FP&A, or hire FP&A
Hire fractional FP&A support at 2-3 days a week — senior financial planning and analysis for budgets, forecasts, board reporting and investor-grade models, without full-time overhead. Also searched as FP&A recruitment, FP&A consulting or part-time FP&A: the engagement is the same, and so are the rates.
How a brief runswhat we undertake
- 01Brief30-MINUTE SCOPING CALLDay 0
- 02Shortlist of 3–5VETTED · RATE BENCHMARK · IR35After the brief
- 03InterviewsYOU MEET THE SHORTLISTYour diary
- 04Scoped startFIRST-MONTH OUTCOMES AGREEDYou set the date
- 05Fractional, interim and permanentIR35 POSITION SET OUTOn every brief
Shortlist3–5
15 minutes · video or phone
Book 15 minutes to hire a fractional FP&A
Tell us the scope and the days a week. We come back with FP&A candidates, their day rates and availability.
- 0115 minutes, video or phone
- 02We scope the role and the days a week
- 03A shortlist of 3–5 after the call
- 04Fractional, interim and permanent briefs
Pick a day that suits · live availability
Live roles · last 3 months
Live Fractional FP&A jobs
No live Fractional FP&A roles in the last three months. Showing live finance leadership roles instead.
- InterimSyndicated
Interim Finance Director
Pragmatic Semiconductor · Cambridge
est £1,400/day5 d/wk - InterimSyndicated
Interim Finance Director
Juro · United Kingdom
£800–£1,000/dayUnited Kingdom - FractionalSyndicated
Fractional Finance Directors
PWF Associates Limited · Manchester
est £750/dayManchester - FractionalSyndicated
Fractional Financial Controller
MarcoPolo Learning · City of Westminster
est £750/day2 d/wk - FractionalSyndicated
Chief Financial Officer
Fiberpay · Marlow
Rate n/a2 d/wk
Current fractional FP&A opportunities
Fractional Quest is a fractional recruitment agency: send a FP&A brief and we come back with a shortlist of three to five vetted candidates.
01/ the role
What is a fractional FP&A professional?
A fractional FP&A professional provides strategic financial planning and analysis expertise on a part-time basis, bringing senior-level financial modeling, budgeting, and forecasting capabilities to companies requiring sophisticated financial planning without full-time FP&A leadership overhead.
Companies hire fractional FP&A support during critical financial phases - fundraising preparation, budget planning cycles, financial system implementation, or investor reporting enhancement. Fractional FP&A professionals establish robust planning processes, build financial models, and implement analytics frameworks that continue delivering insights after their engagement.
FP&A recruitment, FP&A consulting, FP&A services — the same job under four names
Buyers arrive at this work through different words and land in the same place.
FP&A recruitment usually means a permanent or contract hire through an agency, charged as a percentage of first-year salary.
FP&A consulting and FP&A services usually mean a firm delivering a defined piece of work — a model build, a budget rebuild, a data-room pack — and leaving.
Fractional FP&A is neither: one senior person, in your business 2-3 days a week, ongoing, on a monthly retainer with no employer National Insurance, pension or notice period.
Which one you want depends on whether the gap is a project or a seat. A one-off three-week model build is consulting work and should be priced as a project. A standing need — someone who owns the forecast, runs the planning cycle and turns up to the board meeting — is a seat, and a fractional engagement is often the cheaper way to fill it.
An FP&A agency places a person; it does not do the work. If you need the analysis rather than the hire, you are looking for a fractional professional or a consultancy, not a recruiter. This is our framing of a market that describes itself inconsistently — not a published taxonomy.
Part-time FP&A
Part-time FP&A and fractional FP&A are the same arrangement, described from two directions.
"Part-time" describes the hours; "fractional" describes the relationship — a senior operator carrying a portfolio of clients rather than one employer at reduced hours.
In practice the rate, the day commitment and the scope are identical, and the terms appear interchangeably in job advertisements.
FP&A for fractional CFOs
FP&A support is also bought by fractional CFOs who need analyst capacity underneath them.
The CFO owns the board relationship, the raise and the commercial judgement. The modelling, the variance pack and the monthly reforecast are a different job, and paying CFO day rates for them is poor economics.
An FP&A professional doing the build, with the CFO doing the interpretation, lets each spend their days on the work they are priced for.
02/ scope
Core fractional FP&A responsibilities
Financial planning and budgeting
Developing comprehensive annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and rolling financial plans. Creating scenario modeling, variance analysis, and KPI frameworks that support strategic decision making and provide visibility into business performance drivers.
Financial modeling and analysis
Building sophisticated financial models for business cases, investment decisions, and strategic initiatives. Conducting profitability analysis, unit economics modeling, and sensitivity analysis to support management decision making and investor communications.
Management and investor reporting
Creating executive dashboards, board reporting packages, and investor updates. Establishing monthly/quarterly reporting processes, developing management accounts, and implementing automated reporting systems for consistent financial visibility.
Systems and process optimization
Implementing financial planning software, optimizing consolidation processes, and establishing data integrity frameworks. Designing efficient month-end closes, automated reporting workflows, and scalable planning processes that support business growth.
How to hire an FP&A consultant
Decide the planning sophistication you need — basic budgeting through to strategic finance — then scope the days per week that work needs, and whether it calls for manager-level or Head of FP&A expertise. Look for sector-specific planning frameworks (SaaS, fintech, manufacturing) and evidence of investor-grade modeling at your stage.
03/ timing
When to hire fractional FP&A
Common scenarios where fractional FP&A expertise delivers maximum financial planning value with optimal cost efficiency
Scenario 01
Fundraising
— you need investor-grade financial models and projections without full-time finance overhead
Scenario 02
Budget Planning
— establish sophisticated budgeting and forecasting processes for business scaling
Scenario 03
Board Reporting
— implement professional financial reporting for board meetings and investor updates
Scenario 04
System Implementation
— transition from spreadsheets to professional planning software and automated reporting
04/ vetting
How vetting and shortlisting work
Our five-stage process for matching you with the right fractional FP&A professional — structured, analytical, and focused on financial planning expertise
- 01
Qualification screen
Verify FP&A tenure, sector context and stage fit.
SOURCING - 02
Mandate fit
Match to your situation — stage, board dynamics, timing.
MATCHING - 03
Reference deep-dive
We take references ourselves, from recent past clients — real outcomes, not titles.
VERIFY - 04
Shortlist
Three to five candidates with day rate, availability and IR35 position set out.
SHORTLIST OF 3–5
05/ recruitment
FP&A recruitment — what to test before you hire
FP&A recruitment for a permanent seat usually runs through an agency or a search firm; for a fractional seat it runs through a brief and a shortlist. Either way the test is the same: can this person build a model other people can use, and explain it to a board? ICAEW's Financial Modelling Code sets out principles — a defined purpose, inputs that are easy to find, consistent formulas, built-in checks — that a business buying modelling support can use to steer the work. Ask each candidate to walk you through a model they built against them.
ICAEW also notes that roles titled financial planning and analysis can be finance business partnering roles. So assess the relationship as well as the spreadsheet: whether operational managers trusted and used the candidate's forecasts, and what decisions changed because of them. Look for an ICAEW, ACCA or CIMA qualification or equivalent experience, planning cycles run in a business of your size and sector, and a reference from the CFO or finance director they worked for.
A permanent FP&A hire is an employee, so the employer carries out a right to work check before employing them. A fractional FP&A professional is usually engaged through their own company, with the IR35 position set out on the brief. Brief us and we come back with a shortlist of 3–5, each with day rate and availability set out. For the seat above FP&A, see hire a fractional CFO or fractional finance director jobs.
06/ remote
Remote FP&A team — how part-time planning works off-site
A remote FP&A team — one fractional FP&A lead, sometimes with an analyst beneath them — can run most of the planning cycle without being in the office. What it cannot do without is access: the ledger, the payroll summary, the CRM or order system that drives revenue, and one agreed version of the budget. Decide that access, and who approves it, before the engagement starts.
Then agree the cadence in writing: when actuals close, when the forecast is refreshed, when the board pack is due. ICAEW describes a rolling forecast as one updated regularly to look a set period ahead rather than to the year end — a method that suits a remote team, because it turns forecasting into a routine rather than an annual event. For cash, the British Business Bank advises a forecast that covers at least your cash-flow cycle and is updated as often as you can.
Finance data leaving the building needs the basics in place — separate accounts per person, strong sign-in and backups; the NCSC's small organisations guide is a sensible checklist before granting finance access to people who are not on your payroll. Remote FP&A support is also sold as virtual FP&A or FP&A services; whatever the label, confirm whether you are buying one named person or a firm's rotating analysts. For the controls and month-end close beneath the forecast, see hire a fractional financial controller.
07/ questions
Fractional FP&A FAQ
The questions people ask before bringing in a fractional FP&A.
The equivalent permanent hire is a salary plus employer on-costs, plus the fee.
The honest caveat: if the workload is genuinely five days a week, a permanent hire is the right answer and fractional is not cheaper — it is simply less.
A consultancy is the right call for defined, bounded work: build the three-statement model, rebuild the budget, produce the data-room pack. It arrives, delivers, and leaves.
Fractional FP&A is the right call for a standing need: someone who owns the rolling forecast, runs the planning cycle, prepares the board pack every month and knows your business well enough to tell you when a number looks wrong.
Paying consultancy rates for an ongoing seat is expensive; asking a fractional professional to deliver a one-off build in three weeks wastes the relationship.
Rates, day commitments and scope are identical, and UK job advertisements use both words for the same roles.
Splitting the work — FP&A doing the build, the CFO doing the interpretation — is usually better economics for the client and a better use of the CFO's days.
Submit the brief as you would any other and say which parts you are keeping.
Book 15 minutes · shortlist of 3–5
Bring the brief. We architect the team.
A shortlist of 3–5 with day rate, availability and IR35 position set out, after five-stage vetting.
