FP&A Manager in Manchester

Are you the person who can turn numbers into clear, commercial insight?

Do you enjoy building better planning, forecasting and reporting processes?

Can you connect performance drivers, challenge assumptions and help teams make better decisions?

We're looking for an FP&A Manager who can take ownership of financial planning, forecasting and performance reporting across the business, helping to turn data into meaningful insight and action.

This role is ideal for someone who is naturally curious, commercially minded and confident working with stakeholders across Finance, Sales, Brand and Supply Chain. You'll help build stronger planning routines, improve the quality of forecast assumptions and provide clear reporting that supports better decisions.

If you're motivated by improving how the business plans, understands performance and acts on insight, we'd like to hear from you.

Where and how you'll work:

This is a full-time, office-based role in Manchester, NQ. You’ll report to the Senior Commercial Finance Manager and work closely with Sales, Brand and Supply Chain teams to strengthen planning, forecasting and performance management across All About Food.

You'll have ownership of core FP&A routines, including forecast coordination, performance reporting, variance analysis and planning templates, with a focus on making financial information clear, consistent and decision ready.

• Are part qualified, recently qualified or qualified by experience, with strong commercial finance capability. (ACCA / ACA / CIMA)
• Are highly organised, accurate and comfortable managing multiple planning cycles and deadlines.
• Understand how drivers of revenue, cost, margin and working capital translate into business performance.
• Enjoy analysing data, challenging assumptions and turning financial insight into practical recommendations.
• Take ownership without waiting to be asked, follow through on commitments and keep stakeholders updated.
• Communicate clearly, build trust quickly and adapt your style for finance and non-finance audiences.
• Are confident enough to challenge constructively, simplify reporting and recommend better ways of working.
• Are curious about systems, automation and process improvement, and keen to help the business plan better every day.

FMCG experience is desirable but not essential.

What you'll be trusted to do:

• Own and coordinate core forecasting and planning processes, ensuring clear timelines, robust inputs and consistent outputs.
• Produce performance reporting that explains key drivers of sales, margin, cost and profit versus budget, forecast and prior year.
• Partner with Commercial Finance and Sales teams to challenge forecast assumptions and improve forecast accuracy.
• Own the annual budget, rolling forecast and scenario planning cycles through high-quality models, templates and analysis.
• Identify trends, risks and opportunities across brands, retailers and categories, turning analysis into recommended actions.
• Improve FP&A processes by simplifying routines, documenting ways of working and strengthening controls.
• Work closely with Financial Reporting to ensure planning and reporting outputs reconcile to month-end results.
• Support system and reporting improvements across tools such as Excel, Power BI, SharePoint and Anaplan.
• Help build financial awareness across the business by making complex financial information simple and useful.