Senior Finance Manager - FP&A

SSP Food Travel Experts; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 105,000; Full time

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Job summary

SSP Food Travel Experts is seeking a Senior FP&A Manager to lead budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning across the UK, Ireland and NL. You will deliver strategic insights to support decision-making and drive profitable growth.

The role can be based at either our London or Birmingham Head Office and is a 12 month FTC. You will partner with senior leadership to develop robust financial models, challenge assumptions and drive improvements across the finance function.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent.
• Experience streamlining and automating FP&A processes.
• Proficiency in modern FP&A tools and BI platforms.
• Strong Excel and financial modelling capabilities.
• Experience in multi-entity environments UK and international.
• Comfortable with change, transformation, or growth.
• Proven FP&A track record including budgeting, forecasting, reporting.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate end-to-end budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning.
• Deliver high-quality financial analysis and strategic insights.
• Partner with Finance Director – FP&A and senior stakeholders to monitor performance against budgets and forecasts.
• Develop, maintain complex financial models to support decision-making.
• Assess risks and opportunities and recommend actions to protect profitability.
• Drive process improvements and leverage Power BI and automation.
• Support cross-region UK/Ireland/NL operations.

Skills

Power BI

Advanced Excel

Financial modelling

Budgeting & Forecasting

Stakeholder management

Multi-entity FP&A

Education

Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent)

Tools

Power BI

Excel

Job description

Senior FP&A Manager to deliver the financial planning, budgeting, forecasting processes across the UK, Ireland & NL businesses. This is a key role within the finance team, providing strategic insights to support decision-making and drive business growth.

The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering high-quality financial analysis, developing robust financial models, and partnering with senior stakeholders to influence strategy and performance outcomes.

Please note this role can be based either in our London or Birmingham Head Office & is a 12 month FTC

What you'll be doing:

Financial planning cycle:

Coordinate the end-to-end budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes, ensuring alignment with the organisation's strategic objectives. Work closely with functional and regional leads to translate business strategies into robust financial plans, ensuring targets are realistic, data-driven, and achievable.

Strategic and operational insight:

Deliver high-quality financial analysis and insight that informs executive decision-making. Provide rigorous analysis of business performance, identifying key drivers of revenue, margin, and cost trends. Challenge assumptions constructively and support senior leaders in making fact-based decisions that drive sustainable performance improvement.

Performance management and business partnering:

Partner closely with the Finance Director – FP&A and Transformation and senior business stakeholders to monitor financial and operational performance against budgets, forecasts, and strategic goals. Provide clear visibility of risks and opportunities, recommending corrective actions or interventions where necessary to protect or enhance profitability.

Financial modelling and scenario planning:

Develop, enhance, and maintain complex financial models to support strategic decision-making & scenario planning, Ensure models are flexible, accurate, and scalable to support a range of commercial and operational initiatives. Use data-driven insights to model the impact of strategic choices, external factors, and market changes on financial outcomes.

Risk and Opportunities Analysis:

Develop short-and long-term financial plans that account for the potential risks and opportunities affecting the business, supporting data-driven strategic decision-making.

Drive improvements in financial planning and reporting processes, leveraging technology and automation where possible (e.g. Power BI, or similar). Establish best practice standards for financial analysis and ensure processes are efficient, transparent, and scalable as the business grows.

To be successful in this role you'll need:

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent).

Experience

• Experience streamlining and automating financial planning and reporting processes.
• Proficiency in using modern FP&A tools and BI platforms.
• Strong Excel and financial modelling capabilities are essential.
• Experience working in matrix or multi-entity environments, ideally with exposure to both UK and international operations.
• Comfortable operating in environments undergoing change, transformation, or growth.
• Proven track record of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), including budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.
• Commercially minded and strategically focused.
• Proactive and solution oriented.
• Highly organised with attention to detail.

At SSP, we're passionate about creating places people want to be - whether that's for our customers, our partners or our colleagues. When you join us, you'll be part of a business where commercial thinking, collaboration and ownership really matter, and where your work can make a visible difference.

We Offer:

• Employee discounts across our brands
• Friends and Family Discount App
• Award-winning training, apprenticeships and development programmes
• Health and wellbeing support
• Hybrid working with flexibility to support work-life balance
• An inclusive and diverse workplace, with employee networks and communities

Start the best part of the journey with us.

At SSP, we value diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects a wide range of backgrounds, skills and perspectives.