At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead finance transformation by reshaping budgeting and forecasting processes.
- Company: Global consumer business with a focus on innovation and long-term growth.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible working, pension, bonus opportunities, and private healthcare.
- Other info: Join a dynamic team with excellent career development opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on finance processes and work with diverse international teams.
- Qualifications: Experience in finance transformation and strong analytical skills required.
The predicted salary is between 54761 - 70239 £ per year.
W&A is supporting a global organisation to recruit an FP&A Transformation Manager on a two-year fixed-term contract , based just outside Glasgow with hybrid working.
This role will help reshape budgeting, forecasting and performance management as part of a major finance transformation, combining process design, stakeholder coordination and technology-enabled change.
The Opportunity You will work alongside the planning transformation lead to turn strategic objectives into clear workstream deliverables and help build a more consistent, efficient planning and forecasting model.
The remit combines process design, stakeholder coordination, KPI development, change readiness and technology requirements, making it well suited to someone who can bridge detailed finance process knowledge with disciplined programme delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the design of the future operating model for budgeting and forecasting, coordinating inputs and documenting clear business requirements.
- Develop and maintain a practical process taxonomy and supporting standards for planning and performance activity.
- Translate workstream priorities into defined actions, timelines and outputs, driving disciplined follow-up and delivery.
- Help shape requirements for tools and applications that will enable the future planning model, including user needs, impacts and readiness considerations.
- Use activity analysis and other diagnostic information to establish current-state effort and highlight opportunities for improvement.
- Track risks, issues and dependencies across the workstream, escalating appropriately where delivery may be affected.
- Coordinate finance process inputs into a wider ERP-enabled transformation and help ensure agreed standards are reflected in solution design.
- Support the definition of consistent planning and performance KPIs, including data inputs, ownership and measurement approach.
- Coordinate change communications and stakeholder engagement to support adoption of new processes and ways of working.
- Candidate Profile
- Experience in finance transformation, operating model redesign or business change, ideally involving budgeting, forecasting or wider FP&A processes.
- Strong understanding of planning and performance processes and the confidence to shape requirements and challenge constructively.
- A track record of coordinating across multiple stakeholder groups and maintaining progress through competing priorities and dependencies.
- Strong analytical judgement, with the ability to interpret data, identify material themes and support insight-led decisions.
- Clear, credible communication skills and the ability to build alignment across Finance, programme leadership and wider business teams.
- Experience with process documentation, governance materials, KPI frameworks and technology-enabled change.
- Highly organised and delivery-focused, with strong attention to detail and a practical approach to managing actions, risks and outputs.
Package & Benefits
- Two-year fixed-term contract.
- Broader benefits include pension, bonus opportunity, flexible working and private healthcare.
- Location: just outside Glasgow, with hybrid working.
- Reasons to Join
- Shape the future of budgeting, forecasting and performance management in a substantial finance transformation.
- Combine FP&A process expertise with operating model, technology and change exposure.
- Work across a broad international stakeholder group with meaningful influence on future ways of working.
- Join a respected global consumer business with a long-term approach to investment and transformation.
To learn more or apply, please contact Andrea Green or Ross Mc Quarrie for a private and confidential discussion.
Alternatively, submit your CV and we’ll be in touch.
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