Senior FP&A Consultant

Founded in 2018, Smartwyre is a venture-financed SaaS business delivering enterprise software to large agricultural businesses, operating in a $400 billion global industry. With an estimated 5 million farmers and over 5,000 distributors globally, Smartwyre works across the agricultural supply chain, from large corporations to local farms. Presently, we work from the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, and South America.

We are building a B2B SaaS platform to network together the commercial operations of the companies that supply the world’s farmers with seeds, fertilizer, chemicals, and services, with their target markets being the United States, Europe, and Latin America. We aim to first offer SaaS applications to solve key commercial pain points (pricing, costing, quoting), then network these companies using a common data platform (transactional data exchange, product information publication, people networking, and user analytics), and finally empower the network to facilitate new business model amongst network participants.

Smartwyre is seeking a highly analytical and detail-oriented Senior FP&A Consultant to own financial planning, modelling, reporting and business decision-making on a contractor basis. This role is suited to someone with a background in investment banking, private equity, venture capital, corporate finance or investment analysis, combined with hands-on experience in a fast-paced SaaS or technology environment.

The ideal candidate will bring advanced Excel and financial modelling skills, strong commercial judgement, meticulous attention to detail, and the ability to turn complex financial and operational data into clear, actionable insights. Experience with SaaS KPIs, scenario analysis, forecasting, process improvement and financial reporting is essential.

This is a contractor role and we are looking for someone for a minimum of 6 hours per day, or 30 hours per week.

• Develop and maintain financial models to support forecasting, strategic planning and business decision-making
• Support fundraising, investor reporting or due diligence processes
• Prepare annual budgets, rolling forecasts, short-term and long-term financial plans, and detailed variance analysis
• Lead scenario analysis, sensitivity modelling and SaaS KPI reporting to provide actionable insights to leadership
• Own and maintain the company KPI framework and reporting database, ensuring accurate, timely and consistent performance reporting
• Analyse revenue, cost, cash flow and operational data to identify trends, risks and opportunities affecting business performance
• Produce monthly management reports, investor updates, Board materials and key company-wide metrics
• Support future fundraising, investor reporting, due diligence and related financial analysis
• Partner with executives and department leaders to support commercial and operational decision-making
• Deliver ad hoc analysis, business cases and customised reporting as required

• Minimum 5 years’ relevant experience in FP&A, corporate finance, investment banking, private equity, venture capital, equity research or a similar analytical finance role
• Advanced Excel skills, including the ability to build, review and manage complex financial models
• Strong experience in financial modelling, forecasting, scenario analysis and variance analysis
• Experience working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities independently
• Accounting qualification