Head of Financial Planning & Analysis
Gatwick
£80,000 to £90,000 plus benefits
An opportunity has arisen for a high calibre candidate to join a leading international business as their new Head of Financial Planning & Analysis.
Details about the Client
With global revenues in excess of £300 million, our client is an innovative and leading business that has successful and well established operations across 3 continents. From their group headquarters, close to Gatwick, the CFO leads a small but high calibre team that provide accounting rigour, commercial guidance and reporting support to the wider business and the management group.
Detailed Job Description
The Head of FP&A will develop and implement the provision of key analytics, MI, budgeting and forecasting to decision makers within Finance and the wider business. The role will require a hands on approach to developing FP&A activities that can genuinely aide and support medium and long term strategy setting and embed performance management tools and systems. You will work in conjunction with your peers within the group function as well as overseas finance and operational teams to ensure there is clarity around budgets and that, in turn, their reporting is robust and insightful.
Key accountabilities and duties
- Oversee and continuously develop consolidated management reporting & analysis, and supporting IT systems and tools, for distribution to the board & management team
- Work with CFO and management to identify information needs and develop an MI reporting roadmap, influencing key stakeholders on its delivery to support the businesses continued development.
- Discover new opportunities to increase commercial insight through use of analytics, KPI management and statistical modelling
- Ensuring regional finance teams are challenged & empowered to focus on financial management in the knowledge that “one version of the truth” is always provided, in the right format, to drive the right decisions throughout the business. Develop key reporting system interfaces and integration to ensure there is one place to find information including a suite of standard KPI
- Oversight and development of global budgeting and forecasting process to be flexible and responsive to business requirements, while analysing & challenging regional submissions.
- Ownership of rolling risks and opportunities to budget/ forecast
- Perform financial control audits to support the assurance agenda
Candidate's Profile
Skill set and person profile
- A fully qualified accountant
- Demonstrable experience of working in a global, group headquarters
- Audit experience
- Commercial awareness and communications skills that lend themselves to effective “business partnering”
- Embrace and drive change and lead on financial process improvements
- Prior experience of consolidation systems and a general aptitude across other financial systems
- Willingness to travel internationally on a regular basis
What's on offer
£80,000 to £90,000 plus benefits.
Where specific UK qualifications are required we will take into account overseas equivalents. All third party applications will be forwarded to Michael Page.
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