This is a 5-month fixed term contract.
The Specialist, Commercial FP&A plays a central role within a high‑performing Finance team, where you'll be running cost lines, forecasting and partnering with our IT and/or Servicing stakeholders.
How you’ll contribute
The role is responsible for delivering high‑quality financial planning and analysis across NewDay, including:
Supporting the annual budgeting process, monthly and weekly forecasting, and preperation of management information and projections for the Management & Exco Committee.
Providing commercial finance support for investment business cases, tracking delivery against the five-year strategic plan, acting as the key finance contact for activity including change investment analysis, forecasts, approvals and vendor support.
Ownership of month-end performance reporting, variance analysis and financial modelling, including development and maintenance of our Anaplan model to support pricing, forecasting and performance management.
Enabling strong financial governance, insight and decision-making across NewDay. By providing clear, actionable insight into performance drivers, investment returns and resource deployment, the role supports effective prioritisation, cost control and long-term value creation.
Partnering to ensure finance is embedded within strategic and operational discussions, strengthening delivery confidence, supporting transformation outcomes and enabling us to make informed, forward‑looking decisions aligned to business strategy.
We're looking for these essential skills
Strong FP&A expertise – leading budgeting, forecasting and long-term financial planning
Advanced financial modelling & insight generation – turning data into clear, actionable recommendations
Commercial acumen – evaluating investment cases and linking financial outcomes to strategy
Senior stakeholder partnering – influencing decision-making at Executive level
Planning systems & tools experience – ideally Anaplan or similar, with a focus on improving processes
Externally this job title might also be known as Commercial Finance Manager, FP&A Manager, Senior FP&A Analyst, Finance Business Partner, Commercial Finance Business Partner, Financial Planning & Analysis
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At NewDay, our business is focused on a single, clear and defining purpose: to help people move forward with credit.
We provide nearly 4 million customers with responsible access to credit, underpinned by best-in-class customer service and exceptional user experience. Our in-house, highly scalable digital platform alongside our proprietary credit decisioning capability unlocks our competitive advantage.
Our broad credit product offering enables instalment finance, BNPL, 0% finance and carded and digital revolving credit. We operate multiple direct-to-consumer products and a range of credit solutions with some of the UK’s most loved brands.
Our underwriting capability and experience allow us to responsibly say yes to more UK customers making us a merchant partner of choice. We partner to harness the power of data to drive commerce across the UK, creating value at scale.
