Senior FP&A Analyst & Vi Planning Lead

Covetrus; Dumfries; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global health services company is seeking a Senior FP&A Analyst and VI Planning Lead in Dumfries. In this pivotal role, you’ll drive financial performance and strategic decision-making for the Veterinary Instrumentation business. You'll oversee planning and analysis, ensuring robust forecasting and leading the budgeting process while collaborating closely with commercial and operational teams. The ideal candidate is a qualified accountant with strong experience in FP&A, exceptional Excel skills, and the ability to communicate insights effectively to stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Fully qualified accountant with strong post-qualification experience in FP&A or commercial finance.
• Exposure to large groups with corporate reporting requirements.
• Advanced Excel and analytical skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end planning and forecasting for the Veterinary Instrumentation business.
• Provide leadership across Profit and Loss forecasting and planning.
• Lead complex business analysis for improved performance.
• Present results and analysis clearly to non-finance professionals.
• Lead budget process including stakeholder engagement.
• Develop and improve dashboards for data-driven decisions.
• Act as a finance partner to commercial and marketing teams.

Skills

Financial Planning & Analysis

Data analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Budgeting

Strong Excel skills

Education

Fully qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)

Degree Level Education

Tools

SAP

Sage

PowerPoint

Job description

Join our team as a Senior FP&A Analyst and VI Planning Lead, where you’ll play a key role in driving financial performance and strategic decision-making. Reporting to the FP&A Manager, you’ll act as the primary finance lead for the Veterinary Instrumentation (Vi) business. You’ll lead Financial Planning & Analysis, delivering robust forecasting, planning, and strategic analysis for current operations and future opportunities, with full accountability for the Vi business’s planning and forecasting cycles. You’ll support our distribution business based in Dumfries and our Vi business, challenging and influencing stakeholders to achieve financial goals. You’ll own and continuously improve FP&A processes, systems, and data ensuring scalable frameworks that meet global and local requirements. Working closely with commercial, operational, and leadership teams, you’ll proactively identify and drive strategic, value-creation opportunities through insight-led analysis that shapes decisions and delivers impact.

More about the role

• Lead end‑to‑end planning and forecasting for the Veterinary Instrumentation (Vi) business, including annual budgets, periodic reforecasts, long‑range plans and scenario analysis, providing clear recommendations to senior leadership.
• Provide leadership across Profit and Loss forecasting and planning, both short‑term and longer‑term strategic, building robust models and processes that provide insight, challenge assumptions and enable key business decisions. Ensure that the global organisation receives accurate , timely and insightful submissions.
• Lead complex business analysis in response to ad‑hoc leadership team requests, using scenario modelling and financial insight to drive improved business performance across customers, categories and products.
• Presenting (both written and verbal ) of results and analysis to others , in a complex and rapidly changing environment, messages (including those related to complicated accounting issues) are easily digested and understood by non-finance professionals.
• Budgeting – lead the budget process for your areas of responsibility, including systems, processes and stakeholder engagement from leadership team level down, ensuring a clear, stretching and credible budget that the organisation can be held accountable to deliver.
• Drive the development and improvement of dashboards, systems and processes to enable leaders to make data‑driven strategic decisions, including both financial and non‑financial metrics.
• Act as a senior finance partner to commercial and marketing teams in identifying and delivering new sales and margin initiatives, through strong relationships, commercial insight and rigorous financial evaluation.

About you

• Fully qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with strong post-qualification experience in FP&A or commercial finance.
• Exposure to large groupswith corporate reporting requirements would be very helpful.
• Degree Level Education
• AdvancedExcel and PowerPoint skills essential, SAPand Sageexperience desirable. Strong data analytical skills.

Covetrus is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.