FP&A Manager

An exciting and high-profile role facilitating enhanced decision making by providing insight to key stakeholders across the sub-sectors, delivering high quality analytics and robust financial data to facilitate the company’s strategic, long-term and short-term objectives. There will be a keen focus on continuous process improvements, leveraging Power BI tools to produce value-added analytics and providing high quality reporting with added insight.

Key Accountabilities

• Commercial Support

• Perform month-end related tasks including journal posting, reporting, and balance sheet reviews.
• Drive reporting, assessment and communication of financial results to key stakeholders.
• Facilitate financial planning cycle.
• Develop strong relationships with key internal stakeholders across the sub-sectors.
• Understand, highlight, and manage financial risks and opportunities arising from ongoing business performance.
• Support audit process and liaise with Financial Risk & Control team.

• Month end journals preparation and review.
• Preparation and review of annual budgeting and reforecasting processes including consolidating the budget/forecast, understanding key drivers, and preparing the budget presentation for senior stakeholders.
• Support production of the suite of monthly reports to the senior management to provide enhanced analysis of the business performance.
• Facilitate preparation of Compass One monthly business review pack.
• Promote working capital improvements through value added analysis and reporting.
• Balance sheet reviews and compliance with Group Accounting Manual, maintaining a full and up to date understanding of SAP, escalating key risks/opportunities to senior stakeholders.
• Take responsibility for reporting/monitoring of the central cost centres, being the first point of contact for functional leads regarding reporting, planning and analysis.
• Implement ongoing improvements to planning and analysis processes to deliver faster and more accurate insights to the business.
• Drive automation of reporting processes by embedding Power BI tools into the FP&A processes.
• Deliver proactive ad-hoc financial analysis to support business decision making.
• Facilitate implementation of financial planning systems.

• Building relationships with key stakeholders.
• Supporting the development and career progression of junior members of the FP&A team.

Candidate Requirements: Key Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• Essential:

• Qualified Accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) with varied experience in accounting roles/FP&A.
• Experience of business partnering senior stakeholders with the ability to challenge, influence and persuade at all levels.
• High numeric and analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Comfortable developing and working with complex spreadsheets.
• Track record of delivering complex financial analysis and presentations to senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrable commercial finance experience of improving business results and adding value.
• Excellent communication skills - ability to communicate verbal and written information concisely and logically.
• Ability to analyse, evaluate and present information in a clear and impactful way.
• Team management experience.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with proven ability to influence internal and external parties.

• Experience of operating within a multi-sector organization.
• Good working knowledge of SAP and Power BI.
• Anaplan experience is advantageous.

Leadership behaviours

• Communication - ability to manage, develop and lead peers.
• Can Do - Finds new/quicker ways of meeting goals, shows conviction in own judgement and decisions, responds quickly under pressure, and overcomes hurdles to achieve targets. Solutions orientated when facing problems.
• Share Success - Provides task related feedback to do the job effectively and provides excellent service. Delegates tasks to develop others.
• Passion for Quality - Sets demanding performance expectations, sets priorities to maximise benefits, tracks the commercial implications of a situation in a step-by-step way.
• Win through Teamwork - Pursues friendly relationships with colleagues and clients, interacts with colleagues across the organisation and shares own knowledge and insight and displays a high level of energy and commitment to the role and organisation.
• Embrace Diversity - Listens to others and values their contributions, receptive to new and builds on ideas and acts in an ethical and socially responsible manner.