Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

Job Description

Looking for Growth? Looking for a broad role where the decisions you make have a real impact on the business?

We are currently partnered with this rapidly growing PE backed Group. They're now looking for a qualified FP&A Manager to join their finance team.

As their first Group FP&A Manager in a newly created role, reporting directly to the CFO and Group FC, you will play a pivotal role. You will be responsible for providing analytical insight to drive commercial decisions and improvements to short, medium and long-term profitability. This role will also play a key part in future acquisitions with opportunities to get involved in modelling and selection.

You will work closely with the commercial and financial accounting teams to develop effective financial planning and analysis tools and processes that provide financial insight into underlying business trends and supports performance improvement, decision-making and help drive profitability.

The role will initially use data from the company finance system, Access Financials, to support Excel based budgeting, forecasting and reporting. The Group intends to implement a Corporate Performance Management (CPM) toolset in 2023 with you as part of the selection team and supporting the FC with full ownership of the implementation project.

The role will be pivotal in developing FP&A functionality including:

· Managing the monthly, quarterly, and annual budgeting and forecasting cycles – including developing the reporting packs, training users and managing timetables.

· Analysing and consolidating divisional financial and operational results, challenging inconsistencies and variance explanations and explaining company performance.

· Comparing and evaluating previous budgets and forecasts and performing variance analysis to explain differences in performance.

· Creating, managing and maintaining various financial planning models.

· Performing ad-hoc analysis to support various strategic initiatives.

· Work with non-finance management to define track and report key monthly performance indicators (KPIs), inc. HR, Sales, Fleet etc.

· Reporting of the above to the Board, investors and the senior leadership team.

· Select, implement, train and operate FP&A tools.

Project

The Group currently uses Microsoft Excel to consolidate financial information. This project will commence in 2024 to implement a Corporate Performance Management System, e.g. Prophix. The FP&A Manager will co-own this project with the FC.

Skills & Expertise

you will:

Have a strong accountancy and financial planning background in a B2B Services business,

Experience in managing and operating a CPM suite, e.g. Prophix, Dimensions or similar.

High commercial awareness and understanding of business environment.

Great technical skills in Excel and the ability to build professional PowerPoint decks.

Confident in handling several projects at a time.

Self-driven with a mindset that everything is possible.

Skilled at collaborating with stakeholders across all levels of the business.

Comfortable working in fast-paced environments, with constant change.

Qualifications/Background:

Qualified Accountant (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).

Experience of business combinations.

For the right person the role will pay up to 70k + 10% bonus.

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