Finance Planning Manager / FP&A Manager / Financial Strategy Lead

Unity Foods Co.; Deutschland; Presencial; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Unity Foods Co. is seeking a Finance Planning Manager to lead FP&A, forecasting, and strategic financial analysis. You will partner with executives and business units to deliver insights on revenue, costs, and profitability, guiding investment priorities and risk management.

The role emphasizes building robust models, preparing executive dashboards, and driving long-range planning. Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration are essential to enable informed, data-driven decisions.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Commerce, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field.
• Professional qualification such as ACCA, CPA, CIMA, CA, CFA, or equivalent is highly desirable.
• MBA or master's degree or relevant advanced finance qualification is an advantage.
• Significant experience in financial planning and analysis, corporate finance, management accounting, finance business partnering, or strategic finance.
• Proven experience managing annual budgets, rolling forecasts, long-range plans, and monthly/quarterly performance reviews.
• Strong understanding of P&L, balance sheets, cash flow, working capital, revenue, costs, margins and KPI.
• Experience building financial models, business cases, scenario analyses, investment appraisals, and strategic plans.
• Ability to analyze complex financial data, explain variances, and provide recommendations.
• Experience preparing executive reports, dashboards, and board materials for senior stakeholders.
• Strong commercial acumen and ability to support pricing, investment, cost optimisation, and profitability decisions.
• Knowledge of financial controls, accounting standards, audit compliance, and governance.
• Proficiency in Excel and ERP/BI tools such as SAP, Oracle, Anaplan, Hyperion, Power BI.
• Ability to partner with non-finance stakeholders and translate data into business insight.
• Experience mentoring or developing finance analysts or planning professionals.

Responsabilidades

• Lead budgeting and forecasting cycles and ensure accuracy across the organisation.
• Prepare financial models and management reports for leadership.
• Analyse variances and monitor key performance indicators.
• Assess business cases and identify profitability and cost efficiency opportunities.
• Support long-range planning, pricing, investments and transformation programmes.
• Improve planning processes, data quality, reporting standards, and governance.
• Communicate practical, commercially focused recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Conocimientos

Financial planning

Forecasting

Management accounting

Financial analysis

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Problem solving

Business partnering

Educación

Bachelor's in Finance/Accounting/Economics

ACCA/CPA/CIMA/CA/CFA desirable

MBA or relevant finance qualification

Experience with budgeting and forecasting cycles

Herramientas

SAP

Oracle

Anaplan

Hyperion

Power BI

Excel

Descripción del empleo

The Finance Planning Manager / FP&A Manager / Financial Strategy Lead leads financial planning, forecasting, performance analysis, and strategic decision support for the organisation. This role provides clear financial insight on revenue, costs, profitability, investment priorities, and business risks, enabling leaders to make informed decisions and deliver sustainable financial performance.

The position works closely with executive leadership, Accounting, Commercial, Operations, Product, Procurement, Human Resources, and business-unit leaders. Responsibilities include managing budgeting and forecasting cycles, preparing financial models and management reports, analysing variances, monitoring key performance indicators, assessing business cases, and identifying opportunities to improve profitability, cost efficiency, and resource allocation.

The role also supports long-range planning, strategic initiatives, pricing decisions, investment proposals, and transformation programmes. It improves planning processes, data quality, reporting standards, and financial governance while communicating practical, commercially focused recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Commerce, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field.
• Professional qualification such as ACCA, CPA, CIMA, CA, CFA, or equivalent is highly desirable.
• MBA, master's degree, or relevant advanced finance qualification is an advantage.
• Significant experience in financial planning and analysis, corporate finance, management accounting, finance business partnering, or strategic finance.
• Proven experience managing annual budgets, rolling forecasts, long-range plans, and monthly or quarterly performance-review processes.
• Strong understanding of profit and loss statements, balance sheets, cash flow, working capital, revenue, costs, margins, and key financial-performance indicators.
• Experience building financial models, business cases, scenario analyses, sensitivity analyses, investment appraisals, and strategic plans.
• Ability to analyse complex financial and operational data, identify trends, explain variances, and provide clear recommendations.
• Experience preparing executive management reports, board materials, dashboards, forecasts, and presentations for senior stakeholders.
• Strong commercial acumen and ability to support decisions on pricing, investment, cost optimisation, product profitability, market expansion, and resource allocation.
• Knowledge of financial controls, accounting standards, audit requirements, risk management, compliance, and governance principles.
• Proficiency in Excel and experience using ERP, planning, consolidation, reporting, or business-intelligence tools such as SAP, Oracle, Anaplan, Hyperion, Power BI, or comparable systems.
• Ability to partner effectively with non-finance stakeholders and translate financial information into practical business insight.
• Experience leading, mentoring, or developing finance analysts, accountants, or planning professionals is advantageous.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder-management, presentation, prioritisation, strategic-thinking, and problem-solving skills.