FP&A Manager

www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk - Jobboard; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading finance organization in Birmingham is seeking an experienced FP&A Manager to support decision-making by providing financial insights and analytics. The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant with strong analytical skills, able to foster relationships with stakeholders and drive process improvements using tools like SAP and Power BI. This position offers opportunities for leadership and development within a dynamic finance team.

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant status.
• Experience in accounting roles or FP&A.
• Ability to influence and persuade senior stakeholders.
• Track record of delivering financial analysis.
• Strong interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Perform month-end tasks including journal posting and balance sheet reviews.
• Facilitate financial planning cycles and budgeting.
• Drive communication of financial results to stakeholders.
• Promote working capital improvements.
• Implement ongoing improvements to planning processes.

Skills

Qualified Accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA)

High numeric and analytical skills

Excellent communication skills

Team management experience

Ability to develop complex spreadsheets

Tools

SAP

Power BI

Anaplan

Job description

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 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.

Key Accountabilities

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

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.