Join Amplity, the full-service go-to partner of biopharma companies that delivers flexible + specialized medical + commercial services. No matter where a drug is in its lifecycle, we scale with ease to maximize resources + improve impact for all our clients. Through strategic partnerships + deep therapeutic expertise, Amplity transforms how breakthrough treatments reach the people who need them.
Business Unit: Finance
Reports to: Director, Financial Planning & Analysis
Location: Remote, UK
Mgmt Level: Individual Contributor
Role Summary
The FP&A Analytics and Optimization Manager is responsible for transforming and advancing the FP&A function by utilizing advanced analytics and automation to develop scalable dashboards, tools, and reports that empower data-driven decision-making across the organization.
This role also serves as a trusted Corporate FP&A partner, providing actionable insights into cost efficiency, investment performance, and resource optimization. By driving efficiency, transparency, and strategic alignment and partnership, this role plays a critical part in enhancing organizational decision-making and resource allocation, enabling non‑finance leaders to make informed, data‑driven decisions independently.
Key Responsibilities
FP&A Analytics, Automation & BI Leadership
- Lead the design, build, and continuous improvement of automated FP&A reporting and dashboards across Opex, Capex, and Headcount (HC).
- Own business intelligence (BI) optimization, ensuring dashboards are scalable, standardized, and aligned to enterprise data models.
- Work with leadership to proactively identify opportunities to automate recurring financial reporting and analysis, reducing manual effort and increasing speed and accuracy.
- Develop future‑state FP&A capabilities, leveraging automation, visualization, and advanced analytics to enhance decision support.
Dashboard Development & Guided Analytics
- Partner with business leaders and FP&A team to build dashboards that clearly communicate financial performance, trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Continually refresh and evolve dashboards based on changing business needs, strategic priorities, and feedback from stakeholders.
- Design and deploy guided analytics paths that help non‑finance users understand drivers, scenarios, and trade-offs without requiring deep financial expertise.
- Establish a library of standardized, automated dashboards for consistent performance management across the enterprise.
Business Partnership & Enablement
- Serve as a trusted Corporate FP&A business partner, supporting functional leaders with insights related to cost efficiency, investment performance, and resource optimization.
- Train and coach business leaders and teams to use FP&A tools independently, increasing adoption of self‑service analytics and reducing ad‑hoc requests.
- Translate complex financial data into clear, actionable insights tailored to executive and operational audiences.
Planning, Forecasting & Performance Management
- Support and enhance forecasting and budgeting processes through improved analytics, automation, and scenario modelling.
- Develop reporting that highlights cost efficiencies, resource optimization opportunities, and performance against plan.
- Drive transparency into Opex trends, variance drivers, and productivity metrics to support informed trade‑off decisions.
Capital & Investment Analytics
- Build and maintain analytics for Capex and investment tracking, including ROI, spend vs. plan, and benefits realization.
- Own IT Capex tracking, partnering with IT and Finance stakeholders to ensure accurate financial visibility and governance.
- Provide insight into capital allocation effectiveness and support prioritization of future investments.
Headcount & Resource Optimization
- Develop and maintain HC tracking and analytics, including workforce trends, capacity utilization, and cost implications.
- Support enterprise‑wide resource optimization through data‑driven insights and forward‑looking analysis.
Continuous Improvement & Process Efficiency
- Identify and implement process efficiency improvements within FP&A through automation, standardization, and better use of tools.
- Define best practices and governance for analytics, dashboard usage, and metric definitions.
- Partner with IT, data, and finance transformation teams to align tools and data sources.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Analytics, or related field (MBA or advanced degree preferred).
- 7+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, financial analytics, or corporate finance, with demonstrated leadership at the manager level.
- Strong experience with financial modelling, forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis.
- Proven ability to design and implement automated dashboards and BI solutions. Ideally in Workday Adaptive or similar applications
- Demonstrated success partnering with non‑finance stakeholders and influencing decision‑making through insights.
- Experience with Capex, Opex, HC tracking, and investment analysis in a corporate environment.
About Us
Amplity powers biopharma innovation through expert-led teams that deliver. Whether you knew us in the 80’s as Physician Detailing Inc., or in the 00’s as part of Publicis Health , the companies that came together in 2019 to form Amplity have delivered contract medical, commercial + communications excellence for 40+ years.
Our people-driven, tech-enabled DNA fuels everything we do. Our professionals understand the pharmaceutical industry from the inside out. With a deep grasp on product lifecycles, marketing hurdles, operational nuances + the complex needs of providers and patients, we help our clients launch products + operate smoothly with precision — across all business shapes, sizes + specialties.
We are on a mission to improve patient outcomes through executional excellence — enabling our partners in pharma to thrive in turn. At Amplity, we are allies in excellence. And we do it quicker, better, nicer than anyone else.
Our Diversity Policy
We encourage and support equal employment opportunities for all associates and applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation or veteran status. Employment decisions are evaluated on the basis of an individual's skills, knowledge, abilities, job performance and other qualifications. In addition, Amplity Health maintains policies and procedures designed to comply with applicable federal, state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which Amplity Health has facilities.
