FP&A Manager

TN United Kingdom; Ashford; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a dynamic FP&A Manager to lead financial analysis and budgeting processes. This pivotal role involves providing insightful analysis and strategic guidance to stakeholders, ensuring alignment with business objectives. The ideal candidate will have 2-5 years of experience in FP&A, a strong commercial orientation, and advanced Excel skills. Join a forward-thinking company that values data-driven decision-making and fosters collaborative partnerships across functions. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the financial future of the organization while driving value and growth.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of experience in FP&A roles with a commercial focus.
• Qualified accountant or business graduate with analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial analysis to identify trends and opportunities for growth.
• Manage the FP&A budgeting process and ensure strategic alignment.
• Prepare financial reports for senior management and the board.

Skills

Analytical Leadership

Financial Analysis

Stakeholder Management

Budgeting

Forecasting

Attention to Detail

Proactive Attitude

Education

Qualified or Part-Qualified Accountant

Business Graduate

Tools

Advanced Excel

SAP (ECC6 or By Design)

Job description

Cobb & Jones are partnered with a large FMCG business in Ashford, supporting them in their search for a new FP&A Manager. The FP&A Manager is a critical role for the local team. You will be a leader, playing a pivotal role in shaping the company's financial future by providing insightful analysis, accurate forecasting, and strategic guidance to stakeholders at all levels. Your work will shine a light on the commercial performance of the business, as well as performance drivers across multiple channels and geographies. You will lead the annual budgeting process, the annual Mid-Term Strategy review, and drive quarterly forecasting of the P&L and cash positions.

You will lead the finance teams in their mission to utilise data and insights to drive value-driven decision making across the group, as we embark on our continual growth journey.

Responsibilities:

• Provide analytical leadership of performance drivers, with practical alignment to business initiatives and results.
• Lead and own collaborative initiatives across Product, Analytics, Control, and functional teams to source and interrogate performance information.
• Assess suitable actions, and present these with authority, giving due regard to relevant assumptions and informational anchor.
• Ensure the alignment of team priorities to the strategic business objectives.
• Role model and champion collaborative stakeholder partnerships across business functions.
• Conduct financial analysis of ongoing business performance to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for growth, profitability, and cashflow management.
• Run the FP&A budgeting process through to board sign-off, ensuring cross functional alignment with strategic goals and efficient allocation of resources.
• Challenge material business assumptions in the development of our functional business plans.
• Lead the annual 5-year Strategy Plan.
• Partner with business leaders across the organisation to translate strategic objectives into financial models and metrics.
• Prepare regular financial reports and presentations for senior management and the board of directors, including P&L and Cash reporting to a Board level on a monthly basis.
• Build rapport with functional leaders and conduct deep-dives on critical business topics with objective candour.
• Produce accurate KPIs for Head of Finance (Operations), utilise automation and BI tools.
• Continuous development and improvements on the financial processes in order to support all above activities.

Profile:

• At least 2-5 years’ experience within a FP&A position
• Commercially orientated
• Qualified or Part-Qualified Accountant/Accounting Technician or Degree
• Business Graduate
• Understanding of the pharmaceutical / Healthcare market or FMCG / product based (E)
• Exposure to Private Equity / stand-alone SME business (E)
• Advanced Excel capability (E)
• Use of SAP (ECC6 or By Design) (D)
• Have a numerical and analytical aptitude
• Demonstrate excellent attention to detail
• Demonstrate initiative and proactive attitude
• Pharmaceutical / FMCG industry experience (E)