Financial Planning And Analysis Accountant in Nottingham

Job Title

Financial Planning and Analysis Accountant
(FP&A)

Department

Finance

Location

Urban Playground Head Office, Nottingham

Office based 4 days per week, 1 day WFH

Role Description

The FP&A Accountant is responsible for providing
high-quality financial planning, analysis and commercial insight to support
strategic decision making across the Urban Playground Group supporting
operations in the UK, US and KSA.

The role will lead the annual budgeting and on-going
forecasting processes, develop management reporting and dashboards, produce
meaningful analysis for operational leaders and help drive performance across
the UK business while supporting future international growth.

This position focuses on understanding business
performance, identifying opportunities and helping leaders make better
decisions through data and financial insight.

Duties and Responsibilities

Financial Planning

• Lead
  the annual budgeting process with the FD and Heads of Department
  including commentary and business justifications.
• Coordinate
  and produce formal quarterly reforecasts, with monthly updates as
  required.
• Develop
  long-term financial models for both internal and external purposes. This
  will include the ability to conduct ‘what-if’ analysis based on changes
  to business conditions.
• Develop
  and maintain cash flow reporting on a weekly basis with long term
  forecasts based on business needs.
• Support
  the Finance Director in developing business cases, investment appraisals
  and financial models for new venue openings and strategic projects.
  

Commercial Analysis

• Produce
  and distribute daily, weekly and monthly performance results at both venue and consolidated level.
• Analyse
  daily revenue, labour, payroll and operating costs, identifying trends, risks and opportunities to improve business performance.
• Work
  with the FD and Head of Commercial to identify risks and opportunities within our commercial strategy.
• Provide
  regular benchmarking both within our industry and of our competitors to understand changes within our market, how they could impact us and how we should act.

Reporting & Business Partnering

• Work
  alongside the Management Accountant to analyse monthly financial results, producing departmental reporting, KPIs, commentary and insight for the Executive Team and Board.
• Collaborate
  with Heads of Department to develop operational KPIs, dashboards and meaningful performance reporting.
• Support
  the FD in the production of the monthly management information pack and Board Pack for discussion at the Board meeting.

Data & Systems

• Lead
  from a Finance perspective on the development of automated business analytics reporting with the Tech team.
• Review
  business processes to identify opportunities for automation, standardisation, efficiency improvements and strengthened financial controls.
• Collaborate
  with Tech, FD and Heads of Function in developing dashboards and a regular cadence of reporting.
• Develop
  self-service reporting for departmental managers.
• Ensure
  data integrity across all Finance platforms.
• Support
  with the identification and implementation of any new Finance systems and reporting tools.

Candidate Requirements

Key Skills and Competencies

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Effective communication skills, both written and
  verbal.
• Experience partnering with operational managers to
  improve business performance.

Qualifications and Experience

• ACA,
  ACCA, or CIMA qualified.
• Experience
  in both SMEs and larger organisations is beneficial including experience of working in an international organisation.
• Experience
  producing budgets and forecasts
• Financial
  modelling.
• Ideally
  experience within the leisure and entertainment sector
• Experience
  of using and developing data analytics tools.