Senior FP&A Manager

Job OverviewThe Senior Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Manager role is focused on driving commercial success by supporting the divisional leadership and their operational teams, as well as working closely with business development teams. This dynamic role will partner key business stakeholders to provide valuable insights and recommendations to optimise margins and maximise revenue. Responsible for overseeing the FP&A activity which ensures accurate financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and profitability analysis to facilitate informed business decisions. The FP&A Senior Manager fosters a high-performing finance team culture, empowering members to deliver exceptional financial management and drive performance across the entire organisation. The role will need to have key analytical skills and strategic mindset contribute significantly to the company's financial success and growth.

Main Duties

-Responsibility for FP&A activity within the division

-Close working relationship with the Senior Management of the business, driving efficiency, best practise, processes.

-Improving financial reporting across the BU for more detailed analysis

-Responsible for delivering detailed rolling forecasts, working with the divisional finance team to present to senior management monthly

-Drive improvement in working capital by improving the analysis and trends by customer.

-Provide ad-hoc financial analysis and business intelligence support to management and business partners

-Assist in the preparation and analysis of yearly and quarterly financial budgeting, forecasting, and planning processes.

-Develop and maintain financial models and reports for internal and external stakeholders, providing actionable insights and recommendations for improvements.

-Monitor key financial metrics and performance indicators and provide variance analysis against budgets, forecasts, and historical trends.

-Support cost management initiatives, identifying areas for efficiency improvements and driving cost-saving opportunities.

-Collaborate with cross-functional teams, offering financial insights to support decision-making and improve profitability and cash flow.

-Support the production of the Monthly Business Review presentation, providing insight and commentary on the P&L and working capital performance vs AOP/Forecasts/Prior periods

-Assist in the preparation of management and board-level presentations, providing clear and concise financial analysis and commentary.

-Provide ad-hoc financial analysis and business intelligence support to management and business partners.

-Ensure compliance with financial policies, procedures, and reporting requirements.

-Maintain and monitor the Forward Order Book

-Management of the Management Information & Insight team

ACCA, ACA, CIMA, CIPFA qualified, ideally with 3+ year's commercial experience.

-Advanced Excel skills.

-Influential and motivational leadership capability.

-Good commercial skills with the ability to sit in front of a key client and talk about our mix of service lines.

-Experience of working in a fast-paced environment and ability to prioritise a changing workload and use initiative.

-Good communication skills with the ability to present complex financial information to non-financial individuals.

-High level of integrity with a commitment to embedding a strong governance culture.

-Previous business partnering experience within the retail industry and knowledge of the sales pipeline/bid process would be advantageous.

-A hardworking individual with lots of energy, who can deliver high quality work to tight reporting deadlines and demonstrate desire to progress within the company.

-Able to produce concise and informative reporting under tight deadlines.

-Flexible working and to be able to travel around the UK.