Director of Financial Planning and Analysis
Requirements
Requires significant senior leadership experience in FP&A, commercial finance, or business performance, along with a fully qualified accounting credential such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent. Candidates should bring strong modelling and forecasting skills, executive-level influence, commercial acumen, international multi-entity experience, and a record of improving planning and reporting; private equity, M&A, ERP transformation, and advanced BI experience are desirable.
Job Description
At A‑Gas, what we do matters — every single day. We are a global leader in Lifecycle Refrigerant Management. We help industries reduce emissions, protect the environment, and transition to a more sustainable future.
Our goal is clear: to protect and improve the environment by effectively managing refrigerants throughout their entire lifecycle.
Job Purpose
The Director of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) is a strategic partner to the CFO and Executive Team, responsible for leading Group financial planning, forecasting, performance management and forward-looking decision support. The role translates the Group's strategy into robust financial plans, clear performance expectations and actionable insight, providing constructive challenge and guidance to senior leaders across the business. The Director will establish consistent planning and reporting disciplines across regions and functions, strengthen the quality and accuracy of management information, and develop scenario analysis and financial models to inform investment, growth and value-creation decisions. As a member of the senior Finance leadership team, the role will build a high-performing FP&A capability and help ensure that financial insight is embedded in operational and strategic decision-making.
Reports to
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Principal Place of Work
Portishead / Bristol, with international travel as required
Essential
Experience, Knowledge and Qualifications
- Significant senior leadership experience in FP&A, commercial finance or business performance
- Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
- Strong financial modelling, forecasting and scenario-planning capability
- Experience influencing Executive and Board-level stakeholders
- Strong commercial acumen and understanding of business value drivers
- Experience in a complex, international and multi-entity organisation
- Advanced analytical, communication and business-partnering skills
- Strong problem-solving capability, with the ability to analyse complex or ambiguous issues and develop practical, commercially sound solutions
- Intellectually curious, with the confidence to challenge assumptions, explore underlying business drivers and seek new insights
- Demonstrated ability to identify, create and support the adoption of new technologies, digital tools and innovative ways of working
- Track record of improving planning, reporting and performance-management processes
Desirable
- Experience in a private equity-backed or similarly fast-paced environment
- M&A, integration, ERP transformation and advanced BI / data-visualisation experience
What do you get in return?
- Competitive and attractive employment package
- Employer pension scheme
- Flexible working hours (depending on the role)
- Collective benefits program
- Employee Assistance Program (support for work and personal matters)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Team activities in summer and around Christmas
Why choose A‑Gas?
Because your work contributes to something bigger:
- A safer climate
- A more sustainable industry
- An organization with a clear mission, innovative strength, and long-term vision
Together, we are building a sustainable future.
Education
Skills
About A-Gas
A‑Gas is the world leader in the supply and lifecycle management of refrigerants and associated products and services. Through our first-class recovery, reclamation, and repurposing processes, we capture refrigerants and fire protection gases for future re-use or safe destruction, preventing their harmful release into the atmosphere. For over 30 years, A-Gas has supported our clients and partners on their environmental journey by supplying lower global warming gases and actively increasing the circularity of the industries we serve, building a more sustainable future. The climate is changing, and we all have a part to play in protecting our planet. Achieving net-zero is an incredibly ambitious target that we cannot achieve alone, but together, we can.
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