FP&A Manager

AO RETAIL LIMITED; Bolton; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Pension (5% company match)

AO Arena access and events

Health & wellbeing programs

Employee discounts

Charity/volunteer days

Job summary

AO is seeking an FP&A Manager to lead group forecasting, budgeting and financial planning across the AO group, consolidating P&Ls, balance sheets and cash flows. You will translate complex data into actionable insights and report to the CFO, partnering with senior leaders to shape strategy and drive value.

This onsite Bolton role requires strong stakeholder influence and a track record of delivering robust financial plans.

Qualifications

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with extensive FP&A experience.
• Experience in large, complex or multi‑divisional businesses.
• Strong forecasting, budgeting, planning and consolidation skills.
• Advanced Excel and robust financial-modeling ability.
• Experience presenting to executives and boards.
• Ability to challenge assumptions and influence stakeholders.
• Strong cross-functional relationship building.
• Excellent attention to detail and the ability to deliver at pace.

Responsibilities

• Own the Group forecasting and budgeting process, ensuring plans are robust, evidence-based and aligned to business objectives.
• Lead the consolidation of Group P&Ls, balance sheets and cashflows, providing a clear view of performance across AO.
• Drive understanding of financial and operational performance by identifying key trends, risks and opportunities.
• Challenge assumptions and improve forecast quality through stakeholder engagement.
• Produce weekly Group forecast reporting and support monthly CFO board report.
• Prepare board-level papers and executive reporting with clear, actionable insight.
• Partner with senior leaders across the Group to support decision-making.
• Develop financial models, dashboards and KPI reporting for visibility and performance.
• Lead and develop an FP&A Analyst.

Skills

ACA/ACCA/CIMA

FP&A experience

Forecasting

Budgeting

Excel

Board reporting

Education

Professional accounting qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)

Tools

Excel

Job description

At AO, the numbers matter. Understanding what sits behind them matters even more. We're looking for an FP&A Manager to lead our Group forecasting, budgeting and financial planning processes, providing the insight and challenge that helps shape business decisions at the highest level. This is a pivotal role with responsibility for consolidating and reporting Group performance across multiple business units, ensuring forecasts are robust, assumptions are challenged and the drivers behind performance are clearly understood. Working closely with senior commercial and operational leaders, you'll become a trusted partner, bringing clarity to complexity and helping stakeholders make confident, informed decisions. Alongside owning the Group planning cycle, you'll translate large volumes of financial and operational data into meaningful insight, create board-level reporting and play a key role in shaping AO's longer-term financial plans. You'll also lead and develop an FP&A Junior Business Partner, helping to strengthen the capability of the wider team. For someone who enjoys combining technical excellence with commercial influence, this is an opportunity to make a real impact in a fast-paced, growing business. Our people are our superpower, and we're unstoppable when we're together! We want your ideas to flow, and what better way to make that happen than being based onsite in our Bolton office 5 days a week, where our culture fuels creativity, collaboration and growth. If a £1 bet in the pub between two friends can become the UKs most trusted electrical retailer, imagine what else can be achieved when we're together.

Here’s What You Can Expect To Be Doing

• Owning the Group forecasting and budgeting process, ensuring plans are robust, evidence‑based and aligned to business objectives
• Leading the consolidation of Group P&Ls, balance sheets and cashflows, providing a clear view of performance across AO
• Driving a deeper understanding of financial and operational performance by identifying and explaining key trends, risks and opportunities
• Challenging assumptions and improving the quality of forecasts across the business through constructive stakeholder engagement
• Producing weekly Group forecast reporting and supporting the monthly CFO board report
• Preparing board‑level papers and executive reporting that turn complex information into clear, actionable insight
• Partnering with senior commercial and operational leaders across the Group to support decision‑making
• Developing financial models, dashboards and KPI reporting that improve visibility and performance management
• Leading and developing an FP&A Analyst
• Delivering high‑value analysis that supports strategic priorities and business performance

Qualifications & Experience

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)
• Significant FP&A experience within a large, complex or multi‑divisional business
• Strong technical expertise across forecasting, budgeting, financial planning and Group consolidations
• Advanced Excel skills and experience building robust financial models and reporting tools
• Comfortable producing high‑quality reporting and presentations for executive and board‑level audiences
• Naturally inquisitive, with a track record of getting beyond the numbers to uncover the real drivers of performance
• Credible and confident when challenging assumptions and influencing senior stakeholders
• Strong relationship builder who can operate effectively across a wide range of teams and functions
• Highly organised with exceptional attention to detail and the ability to deliver at pace
• Continuously looking for opportunities to improve reporting, automate processes and create better insight

You'll bring a blend of commercial curiosity, analytical rigour and strong stakeholder influence. Most importantly, you'll help AO make better decisions by ensuring we always understand not just what the numbers are telling us, but why.

Our benefits are designed to cover the moments that matter to AOers. From health and wellness to giving back - you'll be rewarded inside and outside of work.

Benefits

• Holidays; 25 days, plus bank holidays (increasing to 27 days after 2 years with us!)
• Pension; Contribute 5% of your annual salary and we'll do the same, giving you a little extra support for the future.
• Be a VIP at the AO Arena; we have loads of opportunities to win free tickets and pre‑sale access!
• Health & wellbeing; discounted gym membership, an onsite spa and our Help @ Hand scheme giving you access to virtual GP's, Mental Health support and much more.
• Discounts; exclusive discounts across our product range.
• Family leave; Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption leave.
• Making a difference; 2 fully paid days a year to donate your time to any charity of your choice.
• On site perks; start your day with free on site parking, grabbing a complimentary breakfast and a coffee at our subsidised in house coffee shop!

We're big on appliances and electricals, REALLY big. Washing machines, fridge freezers and TVs? They're our bread and butter. Mobiles, Airwraps and Ring doorbells? Yep, those too. If it plugs in, powers up or makes life easier, AO probably has it. But we're more than that… For over 25 years, trust has been at the heart of everything we do, helping us become the UK's most trusted electrical retailer. Our customers rate us 4.9 on Trustpilot from nearly ONE MILLION reviews and more 5-star ratings than any other UK electrical retailer, because they know they can rely on us and it's the exact same for our AOers too. We truly believe it's more than just a job, we genuinely care about each other and our impact on making our customers lives easier, by helping them brilliantly. Everyone here knows how their role makes a difference. Our people are our superpower, so, when it comes to finding new AOers, we know it's about more than just a CV, it's about what makes you, YOU.

We're proud to be different. From how we look to the way we talk to our customers, we skip to the beat of our very own drum. We know that being different together is our superpower and we celebrate it because it makes us stronger, more creative, and better at what we do. We believe the people we employ should reflect the diversity of our customer base; that way, we can communicate in a way that recognises all backgrounds, races, ethnicities, genders, ages, religions, abilities, and sexual orientations. And that's why we're asking these questions. Making sure our recruitment process is inclusive is a key part of what we're doing at AO to encourage diversity as an employer. Read more How will we use the data? After we've collated the data, we'll look at the patterns to assess if we are inclusive at each stage. If it turns out that we aren't, then the data may help us identify where we can improve. The data collated won't have any impact on your application and is not shared with hiring managers or the recruitment team.