Job Description

Start your career where innovation meets real impact.

Sapiens Accelerate is our global Early Careers Programme, designed for graduates with up to 18 months of experience, who are ready to learn, contribute, and shape the future of insurance. From day one, you'll work on meaningful projects, collaborate with experts across the business, build practical AI skills, and develop the capabilities needed to thrive in a global technology company.

Role summary

The Financial Planning & Analysis Specialist is the engine room of the organization's planning and forecasting capability. This role designs and operates the financial modeling and budget management infrastructure that converts operational activity data into forward-looking financial intelligence — building the models, running the planning cycles, and producing the variance commentary that enables leadership to understand where the business is and where it is headed. The role serves as the analytical backbone of the Finance function, ensuring that financial planning is rigorous, timely, and calibrated to the business's evolving commercial model.

Responsibilities

• Lead and execute the annual budget-build process, coordinating submissions from business functions, consolidating inputs into the enterprise-wide operating budget, and preparing the management presentation package for executive review and approval
• Develop and maintain rolling financial forecasts at defined cadences, integrating operational inputs from commercial, delivery, and product functions into updated projections that reflect current business reality
• Produce periodic variance analysis packages, comparing actuals against plan across all major cost and revenue categories, with narrative commentary that isolates root causes and frames management actions
• Administer cost allocation frameworks across business units and functional areas, ensuring that direct and indirect cost structures are accurately reflected in P&L reporting at the granularity required for management decision-making
• Build and maintain scenario and sensitivity models to support specific investment decisions, commercial bids, or strategic options as directed by senior finance leadership, surfacing financial trade-offs with clarity

What this looks like at entry level

Applies established FP&A knowledge to build and maintain the multi-year operating budget, rolling forecast model, and financial performance dashboard; demonstrated by producing accurate budget consolidation workbooks and timely management accounting reports for the FP&A Lead and business unit managers against cycle deadlines and data integrity targets. In specific contexts involving cost and management accounting, administers cost allocation schedules, direct/indirect cost analysis, and budget variance reports to keep P&L reporting usable for management decisions.

Resolves defined planning and reporting issues within known frameworks; demonstrated by identifying root causes in variance commentary packages, correcting input mismatches in the budget consolidation workbook, and improving recurring reporting steps to support variance report timeliness and planning tool data integrity rate. In specific contexts involving management accounting reporting, traces cost allocation anomalies and budget deviations to the relevant cost pool or submission source so recurring reports remain reliable.

Requirements

• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business or a related field.
• Advanced Excel: financial modeling, consolidation workbooks, formulas, pivots.
• Management accounting and P&L fundamentals.
• Strong written communication, for variance commentary and executive packs.
• Attention to detail and data accuracy.
• Ability to work with stakeholders across commercial, delivery and product teams.
• Exposure to SaaS or software revenue models.
• Familiarity with AI tools.
• Working in English.