Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Manager

fdu is recruiting an FP&A Manager.

Our client is a rapidly scaling global technology business (currently c£200m t/o), backed by a highly successful private equity firm. Entering the next phase of their growth / evolution, requires the recruitment of a Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Manager.

Key responsibilities:

• Owning the budgeting, forecasting and business planning process. Establishing appropriate inputs/outputs, timetables, and necessary levels of analysis to clearly ‘tell the story’, to enable informed decisions to be made by the business. Migrate the budgeting and forecasting function from Excel to SAP
• Finance Business Partner to senior management. Playing a key role in ensuring that these key stakeholders achieve their targets.
• Financial modelling and analysis. Building and maintaining detailed cash flow models for the business to analyse shareholder returns, IRRs, scenario analysis, exit valuation and capital structure options.
• Helping the CFO when raising further funding (debt or equity) as required to deliver business plan targets.

Your profile:

• Academically strong. A Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with an anticipated 2-6 years PQE, depending upon your growth trajectory and career to date.

• Well trained in accounting, with strong FP&A experience – managing budgeting, forecasting, and planning cycles; this experience will have been gained in a mid/large cap environment where you have had exposure to financial best practice i.e., rolling budget and forecast techniques.
• Financial modelling experience, the ability to build financial models in Excel (VBA).
• Process improvement, through the utilisation of an ERP system (SAP S4/Hana would be advantageous).
• Experience in Corporate Finance i.e., having been employed in the Transaction Services arm of a Consultancy / involved in Corporate Finance activity would be advantageous.