FP&A Analyst

ODEON Cinemas; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cinema operator in Manchester is seeking an FP&A Analyst to provide proactive reporting and decision support. The ideal candidate will have accounting knowledge, analytical skills, and experience in hospitality or retail. This role offers a hybrid working model and benefits including unlimited cinema tickets and a pension scheme.

Benefits

Bonus Scheme

Pension Scheme

Hybrid working (2-3 days per week in the office)

Unlimited free cinema tickets

40% discount on food and drinks

Private Medical Insurance

Critical Illness Cover

Life Assurance

Employee Assistance Programme

Professional qualifications opportunities

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Good technical accounting knowledge is essential.
• Prior experience in hospitality, leisure or retail industry is desirable.
• Ability to drill into and understand numbers.

Responsibilities

• Deliver proactive reporting, analysis, and decision support for FP&A team.
• Understand and deliver accurate revenue recognition reporting.
• Facilitate accurate COGS reporting and collaborate with Operations.
• Support forecasting process and deliver annual budget process.

Skills

Part-qualified accountant

Analytical skills

Strong communication

Relationship building

Job description

Job Purpose :

As FP&A Analyst, you'll facilitate and deliver proactive reporting, analysis, business and decision support for the FP&A team and the wider business. You will Support Finance in delivering the annual budget process and challenging the UK & Ireland business through effective insight and analysis.

Key Accountabilities :

• Understand and deliver accurate revenue recognition reporting, including subscription and loyalty scheme accounting processes
• Facilitate accurate COGS reporting, involving collaboration with the Operations team around stock and wastage
• Support the UK&I forecasting process, including weekly trade reviews and quarterly rolling forecasts
• Work with the wider Finance and Operations teams to provide analysis and insight on financial performance specifically targeting cost base
• Support FP&A manager in delivering the annual budget process including working with Group Finance and territory stakeholders
• Work closely with Group Finance on Hyperion Reporting and any Mapping issues
• Ad-hoc support on financial performance analysis

Key Skills :

• Part-qualified accountant with good technical accounting knowledge is essential
• Prior experience gained within the hospitality, leisure or retail industry is desirable
• Highly analytical, able to drill into and understand the numbers
• Great communicator, both with finance and non finance colleagues
• Great relationship builder, to become a trusted advisor to their business unit

ODEON benefits :

• Bonus Scheme
• Pension Scheme
• Hybrid working (2-3 days per week in the office)
• Unlimited free cinema tickets for you, and 12 friends and family tickets every three months
• 40% discount on our food and drinks, including our in-cinema Costa Coffee stores
• Private Medical Insurance
• Critical Illness Cover
• Life Assurance
• Free access to our confidential Employee Assistance Programme an online platform that offers advice and support on topics including finance, health, and mental wellbeing
• The opportunity to gain professional qualifications through our Bright Lights Apprenticeship scheme
• Fantastic career development opportunities across our cinemas and support offices

At ODEON Cinemas Group, everyone is welcome. We make movies better by bringing all our incredible differences and our different ways of thinking together with our passion for cinema, to deliver inspiring entertainment experiences for our guests. We are all individuals, and we recognise that everyone brings something special to our team.

Starting from the moment you apply, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is embedded into all parts of the colleague journey, and we welcome individuals from all backgrounds. We select colleagues based on merit and the passion they show for their role.

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