FP&A Manager in Brighton

The role involves reporting to the Head of FP&A and taking ownership of core planning cycles and outputs, ensuring the business has clear, accurate, and forward-looking financial insight. This is a hands-on, highly accountable role, with responsibility for delivering budgets, forecasts, and ongoing outlooks that directly inform decision-making at the executive level. You will operate at the heart of the Finance function, partnering across teams to drive consistency, discipline, and continuous improvement in how we plan, forecast, and analyse performance.

What you will be doing

• Financial Planning & Forecasting: Own the delivery of the Budget and Mid-Year Reforecast processes end-to-end, ensuring high-quality, timely outputs that align with business strategy.
• Performance Tracking: Provide forward-focused visibility on performance and risks to support agile decision making.
• FP&A Systems Ownership: Manage and continuously improve FP&A systems, ensuring they are effectively embedded, scalable, and support efficient planning and reporting.
• Cash Flow & Balance Sheet: Own cash flow forecasting, including covenant monitoring, and support balance sheet forecasting to ensure strong financial control and liquidity planning.
• Business Case Review: Review and challenge business cases, ensuring robust assumptions, clear financial logic, and alignment with strategic priorities.
• Governance & Reporting Processes: Oversee key annual processes such as Gender Pay Gap reporting.

What we are looking for

• Planning Ownership: Demonstrable experience owning and delivering budget and forecast cycles in a complex business environment.
• AI-First Mindset: Experience using AI tools to improve efficiency and insight, with a proactive approach to embedding automation and emerging technologies into FP&A processes.
• International Experience: Experience working in multi-entity, multi-currency environments, ideally with overseas subsidiaries.
• High-Growth Environment: Background in a private equity-backed or listed business, with an understanding of pace, scrutiny, and evolving priorities.
• Delivery Focus: Highly organised with a strong commitment to meeting deadlines and delivering high-quality outputs under pressure.
• Mindset & Approach: A positive, solution-oriented mindset with the ability to adapt in a fast-changing environment.
• Team Player: Collaborative and effective in cross-functional teams, with strong communication skills and the ability to build relationships across the business.

Skills & Qualifications:

• ACA or ACCA qualified with post-qualification experience.
• Strong financial modelling and analytical skills, with the ability to translate data into clear insights and recommendations.
• Hands-on experience with FP&A systems (e.g. Pigment, Anaplan, Adaptive or equivalent), with the ability to manage and improve planning tools.

Our Values:

• Better, Connected: We work collaboratively and embrace diversity.
• Empowering and Empowered: We celebrate ownership and initiative.
• Insight-driven: We act based upon data and reflection.
• Agents of Change: We innovate and promote sustainability.
• Focused on Excellence: We aim high, and work smart.
• Passionately Ambitious: We encourage creativity and strive to improve through innovation.

About MPB: We are MPB, the largest global platform for used photography and videography equipment. Our platform transforms the way that people buy, sell and trade in photo and video kit. MPB is a destination for everyone, whether you’ve just discovered your passion for visual storytelling or you’re already a pro. We recognise the benefit of inclusive practices to better build a diverse community here at MPB. Our commitment to ensuring inclusion fuels and connects us as one with the diverse community of visual storytellers that we serve. MPB customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of family makeup, race, sexuality, religion, gender identity, disability or age. At MPB, every employee has the opportunity to make an impact and grow.

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays.
• 1 wellbeing day off per year.
• 5% employer contributory pension scheme.
• Private healthcare.
• Access to EAP with a range of employee discounts.
• Buzzing social calendar.
• Dog friendly workplace.
• Bespoke Learning Management System - the MPB 'Learning Lab' with access to thousands of free courses to upskill in any areas you’d like; whether personally or professionally.
• 2 volunteer days per year for charity which aligns with MPB values, and of your choosing.