FP&A Manager - STORMX RECRUITMENT LIMITED : Job Details

FP&A Manager £75,000 - 80,000Harlow, Essex - office based

(This role is office based in Harlow 5 days a week with an excellent flexi time system used to allow for personal commitments)

A rapidly growing international group located in Essex is recruiting a new role of FP&A Manager.

The FPAM will take full charge of the FP&A function, providing an immediate acceleration to the group wide FP&A capability for strategic planning, decision -support analysis, budgetary control, and high-quality internal reporting.

The role requires the need to know what 'best-in-class looks like’ and to implement that vision with a hands-on leadership approach.

The FPAM will enjoy being right into the detail and have the aptitude to utilise their accumulated experience to quickly translate into well-presented solutions, outputs and insights, within deadlines, at both granular data level and Board presentation level.

The role will encompass international collaboration right across the group functions, and act as a key support role to the Finance Director.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement, lead and deliver best-practice group wide budget, forecasting and long-term planning processes, in accordance with strategic objectives, collaborating with all business stakeholders. • Leading the design, build, layout, content and format of all management reporting• Establish a KPI framework to track the key business actions required to deliver strategic growth objectives drawing out insights and observations to facilitate management decision making• Develop existing underlying budget & forecast models for P&L and create Balance Sheet and cash flow budget & forecast models (at entity and consolidated level)

• Rationalise and justify growth revenue and cost drivers: (sales & margin, product mix, opex spend) in alignment with objectives• Partner with IT in the implementation of Power BI (or similar) data sets and visuals (dashboards etc). • Develop and maintain financial analysis models with underlying recurring, consistent processes, for financial evaluation and scenario planning• Direct and partner with the overseas manufacturing subsidiary on cost analysis including the maintenance and interrogation of data in a new Manufacturing Accounting System • Partner with IT to drive data gathering both external and internal within a data warehouse and the reporting thereafter (opportunities, risks, scenarios etc)• Provide insights and partner with budget holders to manage all budgetary control. • Contribute to multiple business development projects regards the impact on management information & reporting.• Collaborate with the Finance Team on the underlying ERP accounting data structure (GL, Dimensions) to ensure full alignment with FP&A and consistency of management reporting.• Manage, mentor and grow the FP&A team and function (currently one person).

Skills & Experience

- Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA), preferably with significant PQE- Proven experience in a senior role within FP&A in a product led business. - Experience of strategic planning process and budget formulation - Developing and implementing new financial planning and budgeting processes, ideally within a fast growth / change environment- Strong data skills with familiarity of reporting /BI tools such as MS Power BI.- Experience of managing high volume transactional /SKU data.- Group accounting / consolidation - Advanced Excel modelling. Demonstrable experience of building models, templates, solutions from scratch- Ability to gain analysis and insight from imperfect information, and excellent presentation and communication of complex financial information- Competence with ERP accounting systems and forecasting tools/ software