Senior FP&A Manager in Aberdeen

Job Description

Senior FP&A Manager

Aberdeen | Hybrid – c.3 Days in the Office | £100,000 + Bonus

This could be a brilliant time to join a global business going through a significant period of organic growth.

We’re partnering with an established international services business with operations spanning multiple continents and ambitious plans to grow significantly over the coming years.

There’s a huge amount happening across the business. They’re expanding organically, operating in markets seeing significant investment and continuing to develop how finance supports an increasingly complex international organisation.

As part of that journey, they’re creating a brand-new Senior FP&A Manager position.

This isn't a role where everything is already perfect and you're simply being brought in to run an established process.

There is loads to build, improve and shape.

They want someone who can help take FP&A to the next level — improving the foundations, creating consistency across a global business and ultimately helping the function become a much more proactive, forward-looking commercial partner.

For the right person, this is an opportunity to become an integral part of the business's next stage of growth.

The Opportunity

Reporting into the Head of FP&A, you'll join a lean global FP&A team with significant exposure across the organisation.

The first 3–6 months will be about getting under the skin of the business.

Understanding the data. Understanding how different regions report. Improving master data. Creating greater consistency. Simplifying reporting. Getting the right structures in place.

Once those foundations are established, the role will increasingly move towards commercial FP&A and business partnering, with the expectation that around 75% of the position ultimately becomes focused on partnering with the business.

You'll:

• Help shape and develop FP&A across a complex international business
• Lead elements of budgeting, rolling forecasts and long-range planning
• Improve forecast accuracy and introduce more forward-looking performance management
• Standardise management reporting across multiple regions and business lines
• Build meaningful financial and operational KPIs
• Develop reporting and dashboards that focus attention on the things that actually matter
• Partner with senior operational and functional leaders
• Turn complex financial and operational data into clear commercial insight
• Identify risks, opportunities and areas for performance improvement
• Challenge assumptions and influence better commercial decisions
• Improve master data, reporting structures and data quality
• Get involved with systems development, implementation and improvement
• Simplify and standardise processes across the global finance function
• Identify sensible opportunities for automation
• Work closely with regional finance teams, Group Finance and Shared Services
• Support five-year planning alongside the Board and shareholders
• Manage and develop one direct report

Who Are We Looking For?

This is where the brief gets interesting.

International experience is really important.

You don't need to have lived overseas, and we're not fixated on a particular industry.

You do, however, need to understand the complexity that comes with working inside a large, international and multi-layered organisation.

Different regions. Different business lines. Different finance teams. Shared Services. Multiple stakeholders. Different ways of doing things.

You need to be comfortable joining that environment, understanding where the genuine issues are and knowing what actually needs fixing.

The business moves quickly, with a high volume of activity and priorities that can change daily, weekly and monthly.

Sector experience isn't the deciding factor; experience operating successfully in that type of fast-moving environment is much more important.

You'll also need to be someone who enjoys systems, data and how things work behind the scenes.

This isn't pure commercial business partnering from day one.

You need to be prepared to roll your sleeves up, understand where the numbers come from, improve the underlying data and reporting, and build the foundations that allow FP&A to become more commercially valuable.

Then you need to be equally comfortable taking that information and sitting in front of senior leadership to explain what it means and what they should do about it.

Wish List

• Significant FP&A / Commercial Finance experience
• Experience working within a complex international organisation
• Exposure to multiple countries, regions or business lines
• Strong understanding of financial statements and business performance drivers
• Excellent budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning experience
• Strong financial modelling and analytical skills
• Experience designing and improving management reporting
• Strong systems and data mindset
• Experience with system implementation, rollout or development would be a big advantage
• Experience improving master data or reporting structures would be particularly useful
• Advanced Excel
• Exposure to ERP, FP&A and BI tools
• Power BI, SAP, Oracle, Anaplan, Tableau or similar experience would be useful
• Comfortable operating within a matrix structure

Why Join?

Because the timing is excellent.

This is an established international business, but there is still so much opportunity to improve and build.

The company has ambitious organic growth plans and operates across a diverse range of global markets. The FP&A function has already been stabilised; this hire is about helping take it through the next stage of its evolution.

You'll have:

• c.£100,000 base salary
• Bonus on top
• Hybrid working – typically around 3 days in the Aberdeen office
• A newly created role you can genuinely shape
• Significant exposure across a global organisation
• Direct access to senior operational leadership
• Exposure to the Executive Team