Strategic FP&A Manager — Forecasting, Insights & Growth

DRP Group; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

DRPG Group is seeking a highly experienced FP&A professional to lead the group's forecasting, budgeting and MI reporting. You will sit on the Senior Management Team, partnering with Directors to shape P&L and balance sheet decisions while driving AI-enabled finance automation.

Based primarily in Hartlebury with UK/overseas duties as needed. You will own the group forecasting model, deliver monthly lender reporting and KPI dashboards, and mentor the FP&A team to build strong modelling capability

Qualifications

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with strong FP&A experience.
• 5 Years qualified experience in a fast pace international group.
• Excellent budgeting, forecasting and financial modelling skills, ideally having built a forecasting model from scratch.
• A talent for business partnering – you can influence and challenge non-finance stakeholders.
• Experience of lender/MI reporting and covenant monitoring.
• Advanced Excel and confidence building clear, insightful KPI reporting.
• A commercial, improvement-minded outlook and the credibility to sit on a senior team.
• Genuine passion about AI and automation in finance.

Responsibilities

• Build and own the group forecasting model: one automated set of numbers that shows the effect of any change before we make it, with scenario and sensitivity modelling for short and long term forecasting.
• Be the centralised source of truth for MI and budgeting across the group.
• Report margin performance: issue the weekly margin and debtor report every Monday, with anything drifting below the floor flagged early enough to act.
• Own cost analysis of the group's operating base, keeping overheads at optimum efficiency.
• Own budgeting, in-year forecasting and reforecasting across the group.
• Lead the monthly MI and lender reporting pack, and own KPI dashboards and business data reporting across departments.
• Business partner with Directors and relevant departments on their P&L, and handle any interrogation of reported numbers for UK Board members.
• Own budget variance analysis and support group consolidation of the P&L and balance sheet.
• Support the Financial Director on technical accounting, policies and consistency of treatment, keeping the numbers robust and defensible.
• Support the Financial Controller on the financial year-end and deliver a stronger audit deliverables pack (going concern, impairment, ETBs, tax estimates, consolidation works).
• Own covenant compliance monitoring and lender reporting alongside the FC.
• Support statutory accounts preparation, the intercompany matrix and monthly eliminations, and P11D / PSA / employment tax compliance.
• Contribute to finance systems and process improvement, FX monitoring and cashflow forecasting, and manage external advisor relationships.
• Use AI and automation to support reporting and forecasting, and lead the integration and adoption of these tools.
• Develop the FP&A analyst and build the team's modelling capability, creating development opportunities for those who earn them.

Skills

Advanced Excel

KPI reporting

Business partnering

Lender reporting

AI in finance

Forecasting

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA

Job description

DRPG Group is seeking a highly experienced FP&A professional to lead the group's forecasting, budgeting and MI reporting. You will sit on the Senior Management Team, partnering with Directors to shape P&L and balance sheet decisions while driving AI-enabled finance automation.

Based primarily in Hartlebury with UK/overseas duties as needed. You will own the group forecasting model, deliver monthly lender reporting and KPI dashboards, and mentor the FP&A team to build strong modelling capability