Financial Planning & Analysis Manager in London)

A Financial Planning & Analysis Manager is required to join a successful business based in Hounslow. This is an opportunity to join a fast-growing, international business with direct exposure to the senior leadership team and the CFO.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of budgeting and forecasting processes alongside the CFO
• Develop consistent forecasting and reporting framework across the business
• Improvement and ongoing delivery of Exec Team and Board review packs, including relevant analysis, commentary and non-financial KPIs
• Provide ad‑hoc support to CFO and business Finance Directors to analyse investment opportunities and key risks
• Proactively work with the business to develop and improve reporting and analysis, with a particular focus on margin analysis and product profitability
• Cash and working capital analysis and development of long‑term forecast model
• Review, understand and challenge business performance as part of monthly performance cycle
• Producing new analysis on our performance across a range of variables
• Proposing and implementing improvements you identify to existing analysis, helping to make them robust and repeatable
• Working closely with Senior Management (including the CFO) and their direct reports on a day‑to‑day basis, using financial information to inform them on business performance or decisions
• Supporting with budgeting, forecasting and long‑term strategic planning across the company
• Demonstrating aptitude for understanding numbers and making commercial recommendations from that information
• Robust commercial, trend and business analysis across customer, categories & products

Requirements

• Qualified ACCA / CIMA
• Experience in reporting and FP&A
• A proactive, collaborative character who demonstrates strong integrity and has the ability to apply best‑in‑class principles pragmatically based on business needs
• Strong systems, Excel and data analysis capabilities – ideally with reporting tools such as PowerBI alongside strong Excel skills
• Focus on continuous improvements, and enjoys solving problems

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