FP&A Manager

Compass Group; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food service company in Birmingham is seeking an experienced FP&A Manager to enhance decision-making through high-quality analytics and reporting. The role involves financial planning, providing commercial support, and managing relationships with key stakeholders. A suitable candidate should be a qualified accountant with strong analytical skills and experience in financial analysis. This position offers an opportunity to drive improvements in financial processes and team development.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable commercial finance experience of improving business results.
• Ability to challenge, influence and persuade at all levels.
• Comfortable developing and working with complex spreadsheets.

Responsibilities

• Perform month-end related tasks including journal posting and reporting.
• Drive reporting and communication of financial results to key stakeholders.
• Facilitate preparation of monthly business review pack.

Skills

Qualified Accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA)

High numeric and analytical skills

Excellent communication skills

Team management experience

Interpersonal skills

Education

Qualified Accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA)

Tools

SAP

Power BI

Job description

Overview

Job Title – FP&A Manager

Responsible to – Head of FP&A – Compass One

Location – Birmingham

Department – Finance

Overall purpose of the role: An exciting and high-profile role facilitating enhanced decision making by providing insight to key stakeholders across the sub-sectors, delivering high quality analytics and robust financial data to facilitate the company’s strategic, long-term and short-term objectives. There will be a keen focus on continuous process improvements, leveraging Power BI tools to produce value-added analytics and providing high quality reporting with added insight.

Responsibilities

• Purpose: Commercial Support
  • Perform month-end related tasks including journal posting, reporting, and balance sheet reviews.
  • Drive reporting, assessment and communication of financial results to key stakeholders.
  • Facilitate financial planning cycle.
  • Develop strong relationships with key internal stakeholders across the sub-sectors.
  • Understand, highlight, and manage financial risks and opportunities arising from ongoing business performance.
  • Support audit process and liaise with Financial Risk & Control team
• Performance
  • Month end journals preparation and review.
  • Preparation and review of annual budgeting and reforecasting processes including consolidating the budget/forecast, understanding key drivers, and preparing the budget presentation for senior stakeholders.
  • Support production of the suite of monthly reports to the senior management to provide enhanced analysis of the business performance.
  • Facilitate preparation of Compass One monthly business review pack.
  • Promote working capital improvements through value added analysis and reporting.
  • Balance sheet reviews and compliance with Group Accounting Manual, maintaining a full and up to date understanding of SAP, escalating key risks/ opportunities to senior stakeholders.
  • Take responsibility for reporting /monitoring of the central cost centres, being the first point of contact for functional leads regarding reporting, planning and analysis.
  • Implement ongoing improvements to planning and analysis processes to deliver faster and more accurate insights to the business.
  • Drive automation of reporting processes by embedding Power BI tools into the FP&A processes
  • Delivering proactive ad-hoc financial analysis to support business decision making.
  • Facilitate implementation of financial planning systems
• People: Relationship Management
  • Building relationships with key stakeholders
  • Supporting the development and career progression of junior members of the FP&A team

Qualifications

Candidate Requirements: Key Skills, Knowledge & Experience

Essential:

• Qualified Accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) with varied experience in accounting roles/FP&A
• Experience of business partnering senior stakeholders with the ability to challenge, influence and persuade at all levels.
• High numeric and analytical skills and attention to detail
• Comfortable developing and working with complex spreadsheets.
• Track record of delivering complex financial analysis and presentations to the senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrable commercial finance experience of improving business results and adding value.
• Excellent communication skills - ability to communicate verbal and written information concisely and logically.
• Ability to analyse, evaluate and present information in a clear and impactful way.
• Team management experience
• Excellent interpersonal skills with proven ability to influence internal and external parties.

Desirable:

• Experience of operating within a multi-sector organization
• Good working knowledge of SAP and Power BI
• Anaplan experience is advantageous

Leadership behaviours

• Communication – ability to manage, develop and lead peers.
• Can Do – Finds new / quicker ways of meeting goals, shows conviction in own judgement and decisions, responds quickly under pressure, and overcomes hurdles to achieve targets. Solutions orientated when facing problems.
• Share Success – Provides task related feedback to do the job effectively and provides excellent service. Delegates tasks to develop others.
• Passion for Quality – Sets demanding performance expectations, sets priorities to maximise benefits, tracks the commercial implications of a situation in a step-by-step way.
• Win through Teamwork – Pursues friendly relationships with colleagues and clients, interacts with colleagues across the organisation and shares own knowledge and insight and displays a high level of energy and commitment to the role and organisation.
• Embrace Diversity – Listens to others and values their contributions, receptive to new and builds on ideas and acts in ethical and socially responsible manner.