FP&A Manager
Location: London
Salary: £80,000
Sector: Real Estate, Hospitality & Leisure
The Company
Our client is a dynamic international real estate, hospitality and leisure group with a diversified portfolio spanning property investment and development, hotels, franchise operations and private members' clubs. With interests across the UK and international markets, the business works alongside established joint venture partners and institutional investors to deliver growth and long-term value across its portfolio. As the Group continues to develop and expand, its finance function is evolving to provide greater commercial insight and support strategic decision making across the business.
About the Role
Our client is looking to appoint an experienced FP&A Manager to join its Corporate Finance team This is a purely FP&A Focused role, centred around financial planning, forecasting, modelling, performance analysis and commercial decision-making. Working closely with senior leadership and operational teams, you will provide clear financial insight into business performance, identify trends and opportunities, and help shape the Group's future planning and investment decisions. The role offers an excellent opportunity for an ACA or CIMA qualified accountant who wants to take on a broad, commercially focused FP&A position within a diverse and growing international business.
Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate the annual budgeting and financial planning process across the Group.
- Own the quarterly forecasting process, ensuring forecasts reflect current performance, trading conditions and strategic objectives.
- Produce regular management reporting and performance analysis for senior leadership and the Board.
- Deliver detailed variance analysis against budget, forecast and prior-year performance.
- Develop and maintain sophisticated financial models to support business planning and strategic decision-making.
- Build scenario and sensitivity analysis to assess the financial impact of different commercial decisions.
- Analyse revenue, costs, margins, EBITDA, cash generation and other key performance indicators.
- Work closely with operational and commercial teams to understand the underlying drivers of performance.
- Develop and maintain FP&A dashboards and reporting tools, improving visibility of financial and operational KPIs.
- Support the ongoing development and optimisation of FP&A systems and data cubes.
- Identify opportunities to improve the automation, efficiency and scalability of planning and reporting processes.
- Provide financial modelling and analysis to support business cases, investments, acquisitions and strategic projects.
- Translate complex financial information into clear, concise and commercially relevant presentations.
- Act as a trusted finance business partner, providing insight and constructive challenge to senior stakeholders.
- Continuously improve the quality and commercial value of management information across the Group.
Qualifications
- ACA or CIMA qualification.
Required Skills
- Experience within an FP&A, commercial finance or management accounting environment.
- Strong experience across budgeting, forecasting and management reporting.
- Excellent financial modelling skills, with the ability to build models from scratch.
- Strong analytical skills, including variance analysis, scenario planning and performance analysis.
- Experience working with complex datasets and converting financial information into meaningful commercial insight.
- Confidence presenting financial information to senior stakeholders and non-finance teams.
- A commercial mindset and the ability to understand and challenge the key drivers of business performance.
- Advanced Excel skills, ideally alongside experience with FP&A, reporting or financial planning systems.
Preferred Skills
- Ideally experience with FP&A, reporting or financial planning systems alongside advanced Excel skills.
Pay range and compensation package
- £80,000 salary
- Generous pension scheme
- Flexible working arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
- Exposure to a diverse international property, hospitality and leisure portfolio
- Significant exposure to senior leadership
- A broad, commercially focused FP&A remit within a growing organisation
Equal Opportunity Statement
The job description does not include an explicit equal opportunity statement. The employer is encouraged to add a statement confirming commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, and welcoming applicants from all backgrounds.
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