Group Financial Planning and Analysis Lead

Oceanic Catering; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Oceanic Catering is seeking an FP&A Lead in Greater London to drive group forecasting, budgeting and long-term planning. You will coordinate across the business, influence change and deliver high-quality business insights for strategic decisions.

The role requires strong accounting foundations, commercial awareness and advanced Excel/Power BI skills, with responsibility for performance reporting and MI packs for the Board.

Qualifications

• Professional accounting qualification or relevant postgraduate qualification.
• Strong commercial awareness in large organisations.
• Exceptional presentation skills.
• Proficient in Excel, Word, PowerPoint and BI tools.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate FP&A responsibilities across the organisation.
• Lead Group forecasting, budgeting and long-term planning.
• Develop reporting on financial performance across vessels, customers and offices.
• Develop and deliver Senior Management information for Board and Exec meetings.
• Drive continuous improvement of rolling forecasts and annual planning.

Skills

Commercial awareness

Presentation skills

Data interpretation

Attention to detail

Education

Professional accounting qualification

Tools

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

PowerBI

Job description

• Build strong relationships across Group and corporate functions to drive open two-way flow of key information. This role would suit an engaging and inquisitive professional, motivated by delivering high quality business insights and influencing change.
• Coordinate FP&A responsibilities, effectively engaging and utilising resources across the organisation.
• With direct insight into the V. strategic planning, through coordination with the BU team and corporate team, the FP&A Lead is an ambassador for the wider Group strategic goals, facilitating V. development / breaking down silos.
• Drive consistency of FP&A activity across V, taking a lead on Group forecasting, budgeting, and long term planning processes. This will involve both coordination across the business and thought leadership in the development of these critical processes.
• Impact the management of data and its application for business intelligence, working closely with Data and Analytics team, being a key player in the Group's development in this space.
• Develop reporting to demonstrate granular financial performance across vessels, customers and offices, identifying trends and opportunities that can be actioned.
• Lead development and delivery of Senior Management information including investments packs, risk matrices and valuation assessments, for decision making for the Board and Executive meetings.
• Develop and expedite relevant key performance metrics across the business, supporting both performance reporting/indicators and providing forecasting drivers.
• Challenge business colleagues and work closely with FP&A leads and Finance Business Partners, in the development of actions to drive improvement in underlying business drivers.
• Drive continuous improvement of the rolling forecast process, and ongoing advancement of the annual and long term planning process.
• Develop analysis and proposals to support business development and efficiencies, and support M&A activity with strong financial modelling.
• Assist Finance Director and Group management on ad-hoc requests as required.
• Professional accounting qualification (or relevant post-graduate qualification).
• Strong demonstrated commercial awareness in reputable large organisations.
• Exceptional presentation skills.
• Computer literacy: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, PowerBI / other BI tools (preferable)
• Very comfortable dealing with large datasets, with respect to data organisation and identifying key messages.