Hybrid FP&A Lead: Sales Performance & Insight

Butler Rose; England; Hybrid; GBP 72,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent benefits

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Butler Rose is recruiting an experienced Commercial Finance Manager to lead sales performance analysis (UK & Ireland). You will influence commercial decisions, work with Sales, Marketing, Services and Supply Chain, and develop a team of three analysts.

This role focuses on driving commercial insight beyond forecasting, challenging numbers and improving reporting for strategic decisions.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in commercial finance, FP&A or financial business partnering.
• Strong commercial judgement, analytical rigour and an instinctive understanding of business performance.
• A confident, engaging communication style and the ability to influence and constructively challenge senior stakeholders.
• The ability to educate and engage non-financial colleagues, making financial information accessible and meaningful.
• Proven experience improving reporting processes and productivity within established systems.
• Strong leadership skills and a genuine enthusiasm for developing people.
• Experience with SAP/BPC, Power BI or similar reporting and analytical tools would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Commercial Insight: Understand the real drivers of sales performance, challenge assumptions and identify risks and opportunities.
• FP&A Leadership: Lead budgeting, forecasting, performance analysis and commercial reporting.
• Business Partnering: Build influential relationships with senior stakeholders, translating complex financial information into practical commercial recommendations.
• Process Improvement: Improve reporting accuracy, efficiency and productivity, making better use of existing systems, Power BI and analytical tools.
• People Leadership: Lead and develop three analysts, moving the team's focus from reporting historical performance towards generating meaningful commercial insight.
• Decision Support: Provide financial challenge and analysis to support pricing, investment and commercial initiatives.

Skills

Commercial finance

FP&A

Business partnering

Leadership

Power BI

SAP/BPC

Education

ACA

ACCA

CIMA

Tools

SAP/BPC

Power BI

Job description

Butler Rose is recruiting an experienced Commercial Finance Manager to lead sales performance analysis (UK & Ireland). You will influence commercial decisions, work with Sales, Marketing, Services and Supply Chain, and develop a team of three analysts.

This role focuses on driving commercial insight beyond forecasting, challenging numbers and improving reporting for strategic decisions.