Financial Planning & Analysis Manager - FP&A

Financial Planning & Analysis Manager (FP&A)

Location: Swindon

Salary: Competitive salary dependant on experience

Why Join The CFO Centre?

By joining The CFO Centre, you’ll become part of a team that values expertise, collaboration, and a client-first approach. They offer a supportive environment where you’ll have the opportunity to grow your skills and make a meaningful impact.

The Role

Financial Analysis:

• Provide valuable data insights and performance analysis to senior stakeholders across the business.
• Creating and maintaining dashboards and reports, including charts, tables and graphs to enable presentation of data in an effective format.
• Reviewing, analysing and interpreting month end financial reports, including P&L, Balance Sheet, Cashflow Statements, Overheads and Business performance.
• Identify value add areas and supporting the Head of UK & Ireland Finance with ad hoc projects and deep-dives.
• Create financial modelling templates for use across multiple countries.

Process Improvement:

• Recommendations and implementation of process and reporting improvements through automation solutions and standardisation across the business.
• Provide guidance and training to Finance team and Central team on finance processes and automation skills, helping to embed a continuous improvement mindset.
• Involved in additional projects as they arise.

Team Leadership and Stakeholder Management:

• Lead, manage and motivate the finance accounting team including regular 1:1’s, development of performance and fostering continual collaboration.
• Supporting the finance team through month end close, ensuring accuracy of results and helping with ad hoc queries.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the business including Finance Business Partners, Head of UK & Ireland Finance, Group Financial Controller and Divisional Directors to identify opportunities to improve performance and drive growth and help with decision making, through data led analysis.
• Supporting Credit Control Manager with processes, reporting and reviewing performance of aged debt.

Budgeting & Forecasting:

• Update and maintain budgets and forecasts, liaising with appropriate stakeholders across the business.
• Lead the review and creation of financial models to support robust forward-thinking analysis and decision making.

 Skills and Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant with a strong technical background and team management experience.
• Experience of embedding robust month end processes and controls and good knowledge of Systems.
• Excellent Excel and business intelligence skills such as Power Query, Power Automate (Power BI) and Power Apps and a Business Process Automation (BPA) Champion.
• Attention to detail, with an analytical mindset to organise and interpret data.
• Open, honest and progressive with excellent communication skills.

Benefits

• Salary £60k to £65k (DoE)
• Hybrid working – 2 days working from home, 3 days in the office in Swindon
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays (with Christmas Shutdown)
• Salary Sacrifice Pension
• Free parking on-site
• Cycle to work Scheme

To Apply

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for this reputable company, please do not hesitate to apply.