Senior Finance Manager - FP&A

SRM Recruitment; Bury St Edmunds; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Finance Manager to lead budgeting, forecasting, and business planning processes. This role involves managing a talented team and providing valuable insights into business performance. The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant with a strong background in management accounting and business partnering. Join a dynamic team in a growing business, where your contributions will drive strategic decisions and enhance financial reporting capabilities. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with a proven track record in finance.
• Experience in managing a team and financial modelling.

Responsibilities

• Manage budgeting, forecasting, and business planning processes.
• Support month-end reporting and financial performance analysis.

Skills

Management Accounting

Business Partnering

Financial Modelling

Team Management

Education

ACA Qualification

CIMA Qualification

ACCA Qualification

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SRM are delighted to be supporting a leading and growing business in Bury St Edmunds in the recruitment of a Senior Finance Manager - FP&A ( ACA / CIMA / ACCA). Reporting to the Group Financial Controller the successful candidates main purpose will be to manage and develop budgeting, forecasting and business planning processes and reporting. You will also develop and maintain processes to deliver valuable insight and analysis on key areas of business performance and to support system development initiatives to enhance reporting efficiency and capabilities.

Key responsibilities:

Line Management

• Management of Senior Finance Business Partner, Senior Management Accountant, Management

Accountant, Financial Analyst, and indirect Management of one Financial Analyst, with

responsibility for their output – both volume and quality.

- Encouragement, mentoring and guidance throughout the team, to share best practice and

aligned working.

- Support and monitoring of study progress, where applicable.

- Engagement in and facilitation of Team Building and Volunteering initiatives / sessions

within the Team.

Month End Reporting

• Support the month end process, to include:

- Preparation of reporting data to flow into the group management accounts and Budget

Committee pack.

- Review and comparison to budget and expectation of actual performance, both in the month

and year to date of all Overhead and Maintenance areas.

- Production of monthly financial performance packs for the Overhead and Maintenance areas,

to present to budget holders and other key internal stakeholders.

- Approval of journals raised by direct reports.

- Ownership of ICR process and sections of relevant SOX control.

Budgeting, Forecasting and Business Planning

• Deliver the annual budgeting and business plan update process, including:

- Delivery of group balance sheet model, group budget submission, and annual business

- Planning and delivering the process to a timetable agreed by Senior Management.

- Agreeing key inputs and assumptions with Senior Management.

- Supporting budget holders and budget process owners through the process to ensure

completeness and consistency.

- Delivering insight and analysis of budgets and business plans to ensure long-term trends

are identified and communicated to stakeholders.

Insight & Analysis

• Deliver processes to provide insight and analysis regarding key areas of business performance including:

-Monitoring KPIs, understanding any deviations from expectation and, where required, engaging other members of the Finance team and wider business, in identifying and implementing remedial actions.

-Supporting business engagement to ensure maximum value from business unit/department level relationships.

-Gathering information from the business as required, to provide to the Commercial finance / Corporate finance teams, to enhance the accuracy of reporting and to feed into models.

-Support monthly internal review procedures to enhance Senior Management understanding of business performance, including development of material and agenda for monthly Budget Committee meetings.

Systems Development

• Support IT teams, project teams and external consultants as required to ensure integrity, development, and enhancement of financial accounting, reporting, and planning systems.

The successful candidate will look like:

• Qualified accountant with proven solid track record ( ACA, CIMA or ACCA qualified )
• Proven experience of Management Accounting and Business Partnering
• Proven track record of managing a team.
• Experience of financial modelling and running a budget process

To be considered please apply via the link or contact Luke Higgs at SRM.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Accounting/Auditing

• Industries

  Utilities and Construction

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