Group FP&A Manager in Manchester

We're looking for a Group FP&A Manager to join our finance team here at N Brown.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the preparation of the forecasting, planning and performance analysis/reporting for the Group covering the multi-brand retail business, £0.4 billion loan book and transformation capital investment program.
• Strategic Planning and Forecasting: Owning the day‑to‑day work of creating budget, rolling forecasts and long‑range financial plans (3 years).
• Performance Reporting and Analysis: Prepare monthly reporting packs, variance analysis and interpreting financial trends to support business decisions.
• Commercial Insights and Modelling: Building financial scenarios to support strategic decisions, such as investment appraisals.
• Business partnering: Partnering with leaders across the Group to track performance and understand variances.
• Liquidity and cash management: Own day‑to‑day work of creating weekly cashflow forecasts.
• Funding and Capital strategy: Prepare reporting of banking covenants across the securitisation facility and revolving credit facility.
• Risk Management: Execute and manage interest rate and foreign exchange trades to mitigate financial risks.
• Governance and Compliance: Ensure compliance with treasury policies, internal controls and regulatory requirements.
• Relationship Management: Maintain key relationships with banks, lenders, rating agencies and internal stakeholders.

Key Skills and Experience

• Experienced candidate from a numerical, accountancy, audit or analytical background.
• The successful candidate will be qualified (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) with significant post‑qualification experience.
• Significant experience of financial control and financial modelling.
• Significant experience of design, governance, evaluation and testing of forecasting models and gaining full stakeholder engagement.
• Ability to efficiently manage large amounts of data, ensuring clear audit trail and strong model governance.
• Experience in cash and liquidity management.
• Strong storytelling skills to explain financial results to non‑financial stakeholders.
• Ability to influence and negotiate across the organisation and experienced in communicating commercial language with a variety of media.
• Strong experience in managing and building key internal and external stakeholder relationships.
• Naturally inquisitive with a desire to understand a broad range of commercial issues.
• Strong operational delivery track record, motivated to implement/deliver on time to quality standards and build new efficient processes.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly appraise complex situations, identify key issues and make timely decisions.
• A track record of process improvement, enhancing financial processes through simplification and automation.
• Strong MS Office skills, particularly Excel.
• Experience of data languages (SQL) and Teradata is desirable.
• Experience in Power BI is desirable.
• Experience of Oracle Cloud Financial Systems and TM1 is desirable but not essential.

Benefits

• Hybrid working (3 days in the office at a minimum).
• 24 days holiday (+ 8 bank holidays).
• Annual bonus scheme.
• Enhanced maternity and adoption leave.
• Company pension with up to 8% N Brown contribution.
• Mental Health support both internally and externally, including access to our wellbeing champions and counselling services.
• A range of financial wellbeing support.
• Stream – a financial wellbeing tool that helps you track your pay, access earnings early and manage your money with confidence.
• Colleague discount across all N Brown brands.
• Onsite café with subsidised rates and local restaurant discounts.
• Life Assurance and Private Medical Insurance.
• Paid volunteer time – all our colleagues can take a full day paid to volunteer for a charity of their choice.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We're an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.