Reporting Finance Manager in Milton Keynes

You Bring The Flavour. Together, We Deliver Delicious.

What You'll Bring

• A recognised accountancy qualification such as ACCA, CIMA or ACA, alongside relevant post-qualified experience within Reporting, Commercial Finance or FP&A.
• Strong experience in financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting and performance analysis within a finance function.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience managing, interpreting and analysing large, complex datasets.
• Strong Power BI capability, including building interactive dashboards from the ground up and creating self-service reporting solutions for business stakeholders.
• Experience writing SQL queries to extract, manipulate and analyse data from large datasets and data warehouses.
• Experience designing intuitive dashboards and data visualisations that focus on insight, usability and decision-making rather than static reporting.
• The ability to convert complex data into compelling stories and actionable recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience presenting performance insights and commercial recommendations to senior leadership teams.
• Experience partnering with commercial functions such as Sales, Marketing or Revenue teams to translate data into meaningful business actions.
• Previous people management or coaching experience, with a passion for developing and upskilling others.
• A strong understanding of commercial performance drivers including sales, trade, budgeting and forecasting.
• An interest in emerging technologies, AI capabilities and modern reporting solutions that can enhance reporting effectiveness and business insight.
• The ability to operate effectively in ambiguity, manage competing priorities and drive continuous improvement.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead the delivery of weekly, period-end and trading performance reporting across the business.
• Own the sales budgeting and forecasting process, partnering with key stakeholders to ensure forecasts are accurate, robust and commercially relevant.
• Produce insightful performance packs covering sales, trade, traffic, commercial KPIs and key marketing initiatives.
• Develop and maintain interactive Power BI dashboards that provide greater visibility of business performance and enable self-service reporting.
• Utilise SQL and other analytical tools to extract, interrogate and analyse data to support business reporting and insight generation.
• Lead the transition from spreadsheet-led reporting to intuitive, dashboard-driven performance management.
• Design reporting solutions that allow stakeholders to drill into performance, understand trends and answer key business questions independently.
• Conduct campaign, promotional and trade-driving activity analysis, evaluating performance, return on investment and commercial impact.
• Support interim and full-year reporting requirements through high-quality analysis and commentary.
• Identify trends, opportunities and risks, providing recommendations that support business performance and strategic objectives.
• Act as the central point of contact for sales reporting and performance-related queries across the business.
• Lead, coach and develop a Reporting Finance Analyst, supporting their progression from traditional Excel reporting towards modern dashboard and BI reporting capabilities.
• Work closely with Finance, Marketing, Revenue Management, Business Intelligence and Investor Relations teams to deliver reporting that drives action and commercial value.
• Champion continuous improvement, automation and innovation across reporting processes, leveraging technology and data visualisation to improve efficiency and insight quality.
• Explore opportunities to leverage emerging AI and business intelligence capabilities to improve reporting efficiency and business insight.

How We Will Support You

• Exposure to senior leadership and strategic decision-making.
• The opportunity to lead transformative reporting and dashboard initiatives.
• A collaborative environment where Finance, Commercial and BI teams work closely together.
• The chance to influence how performance is measured and understood across the organisation.
• Opportunities to develop your leadership, commercial and technical expertise.
• A hybrid working environment that supports flexibility and balance.
• Competitive salary and benefits.