FP&A Manager
A rapidly growing international group located in Essex is recruiting a new role of FP&A Manager.
The FPAM will take full charge of the FP&A function, providing an immediate acceleration to the group wide FP&A capability for strategic planning, decision -support analysis, budgetary control, and high-quality internal reporting.
The role requires the need to know what ‘best-in-class looks like’ and to implement that vision with a hands-on leadership approach.
The FPAM will enjoy being right into the detail and have the aptitude to utilise their accumulated experience to quickly translate into well-presented solutions, outputs and insights, within deadlines, at both granular data level and Board presentation level.
The role will encompass international collaboration right across the group functions, and act as a key support role to the Finance Director.
Key Responsibilities
• Implement, lead and deliver best-practice group wide budget, forecasting and long-term planning processes, in accordance with strategic objectives, collaborating with all business stakeholders.
• Leading the design, build, layout, content and format of all management reporting
• Establish a KPI framework to track the key business actions required to deliver strategic growth objectives drawing out insights and observations to facilitate management decision making
• Develop existing underlying budget & forecast models for P&L and create Balance Sheet and cash flow budget & forecast models (at entity and consolidated level)
• Rationalise and justify growth revenue and cost drivers: (sales & margin, product mix, opex spend) in alignment with objectives
• Partner with IT in the implementation of Power BI (or similar) data sets and visuals (dashboards etc).
• Develop and maintain financial analysis models with underlying recurring, consistent processes, for financial evaluation and scenario planning
• Direct and partner with the overseas manufacturing subsidiary on cost analysis including the maintenance and interrogation of data in a new Manufacturing Accounting System
• Partner with IT to drive data gathering both external and internal within a data warehouse and the reporting thereafter (opportunities, risks, scenarios etc)
• Provide insights and partner with budget holders to manage all budgetary control.
• Contribute to multiple business development projects regards the impact on management information & reporting.
• Collaborate with the Finance Team on the underlying ERP accounting data structure (GL, Dimensions) to ensure full alignment with FP&A and consistency of management reporting.
• Manage, mentor and grow the FP&A team and function (currently one person).
Skills & Experience
– Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA), preferably with significant PQE
– Proven experience in a senior role within FP&A in a product led business.
– Experience of strategic planning process and budget formulation
– Developing and implementing new financial planning and budgeting processes, ideally within a fast growth / change environment
– Strong data skills with familiarity of reporting /BI tools such as MS Power BI.
– Experience of managing high volume transactional /SKU data.
– Group accounting / consolidation
– Advanced Excel modelling. Demonstrable experience of building models, templates, solutions from scratch
– Ability to gain analysis and insight from imperfect information, and excellent presentation and communication of complex financial information
– Competence with ERP accounting systems and forecasting tools/ software
(This role is office based in Harlow 5 days a week with an excellent flexi time system used to allow for personal commitments)
Location: Harlow
Salary: £75,000 - £80,000
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