Financial Planning & Analysis Manager - Exciting newly created role

FP&A Manager

Basingstoke

£60,000 plus Bonus

A commitment to continuously improve and a desire to provide a “best in class” service to the operational business has initiated this newly created position within a rapidly expanding, market leading business.

Barribal Associates are delighted to be continuing to work with this well regarded and high growth company whose Finance Transformation Project is continuing to deliver a significant impact across the whole organisation.

The company is a multi-site business with a reputation for delivering outstanding value and customer service. The business has grown significantly over the last decade to become one of the leading players in this niche, high demand market.

Reporting to the Head of FP&A, you will be supporting decision making across the business by delivering timely management information that leads to improvements in processes, sales, profitability, and cash flow.

You will have demonstrable experience of finance business partnering and in-depth, insightful analysis from which the operational teams within your customer base can make informed and commercially focussed decisions.

Your responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Producing timely and accurate management information in accordance with internal deadlines and in compliance with the Group accounting policies.
• Managing the day-to-day activities of two financial analysts.
• Preparing monthly management accounts packs for reporting to the Board and the business as a whole.
• Review expense postings to ensure accuracy and legitimacy, posting necessary journals and ensuring all entries are processed through the GL so that accurate Management Accounts are produced and issued in accordance with internal guidelines in appropriate formats, including analysis work as required.
• Develop the business partnering relationship with the divisions in your care to provide and encourage financial awareness for their business.
• Instigate a rolling forecast methodology for the divisions incorporating feed back and metrics obtained from the business partnering activities.
• Driving the annual budgeting process, as well as the quarterly re-budgeting and full year forecasting processes, working with Senior Managers to deliver a consolidated budget / forecast.
• Developing tools to improve the budgeting and forecasting processes, including utilising functionality in Dynamic 365 and fostering a collaborative planning approach.
• Reviewing the sales and margin report, issued to senior management, identifying and addressing any issues with inaccuracies of incoming data.
• Produce methodology to account for any monthly sales rebates analysis.
• Supporting and analysing the marketing function ensuring alignment to budgets and forecasts as well as producing financial analysis to support the financial reporting.
• Produce the monthly reporting for the central overheads function. Understand and analyse the performance as well as provide feedback to the business in agreed formats.
• Maintaining management reporting systems to ensure integrity and accuracy.
• Continually improving management reports to meet the growing needs of the business, as agreed with the Head of FP&A.

Candidates will be fully qualified and hold a proven track record of achievement within a FP&A/business partnering/management accounting function. Ideally you will have come from a  multi-site operational environment.

You will demonstrate the ability to work in a fast-paced organisation, taking control of your own workload and managing competing priorities; often tasks will arise from a variety of sources, frequently all with tight deadlines. You will have a passion for detail and accuracy, aligned to strong commercial acumen and the ability to use your own initiative with the confidence to challenge and present your point of view concisely and effectively. You will enjoy getting into the details, while also seeing and understanding the big picture, with the skill to work with complex data, presenting it in a user-friendly format and able to make concise and insightful observations about it.

What IS a prerequisite however, is your attitude and aptitude in taking a proactive and autonomous approach to your work and the desire to have a tangible impact on the business itself. Your commitment to delivery, coupled with a focussed desire to succeed within a demanding, exciting growth business, will provide an enviable platform for the progression and development of your career.

Barribal Associates and the organisations it represents are fully committed to equal opportunities and encourage applications from any age, disability, gender, marital status, race, nationality, religion or sexual orientation.