FP&A Manager

Our client, a leading retailer, is seeking a highly skilled FP&A Manager to join their team in Manchester City Centre. This role offers an exciting opportunity to support performance insights and reporting across various business sectors. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in analysing performance trends, producing forecasts, budgets, and future plans. This position provides the chance to make a significant impact and build your career with an organisation that prioritises people at the heart of its strategy. Our client operates on a working model of four days in the office, and one from home.

What you'll do:

As our client's FP&A Manager, you will be instrumental in driving the financial planning process. Your excellent analytical skills will be utilised to deliver detailed reports, financial plans, and insightful analysis. You will work closely with key business leaders to identify risks or opportunities that might have a financial impact. Your role will involve inputting data into planning models for forecasts, budgets, and strategic plans. You will also provide reconciliation and variance analysis across different business areas. Your ability to communicate effectively will be crucial in supporting leadership teams in making informed decisions that enhance business performance.

• Deliver detailed and accurate reports, financial plans and insightful analysis in collaboration with key business leaders.
• Identify risks and opportunities and embed them into future forecasts, presenting any potential financial impacts.
• Input data and assumptions into planning models for forecasts, budgets and strategic plans.
• Provide reconciliation and variance analysis across different business areas on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis.
• Support communication with leadership teams to ensure well-informed decisions that improve business performance.
• Manage, mentor and develop a small but strong FP&A team
• Provide trial analysis and support for key projects, including test and learn analysis.
• Stay updated with new techniques and methodologies to improve insights and regularly report on changes to the external economic market.

What you bring:

As an FP&A Manager, you bring a wealth of experience from previous roles within insight, analysis or FP&A teams. You possess an accountancy qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA). Your strong working knowledge of analytical methods allows you to approach problem-solving using a hypothesis framework. You have a deep understanding of budgets and forecasts, coupled with strong IT skills, particularly in Microsoft Excel. Your excellent communication skills enable you to present confidently to both financial and non-financial partners. Your ability to spot new opportunities and drive continuous improvement will be key to your success in this role.

• An accountancy qualification (ACA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent) or in the final stages of working towards one.
• Previous experience working in an insight, analysis or FP&A team.
• Strong working knowledge of analytical methods, practices and techniques including a hypothesis framework approach to answering questions.
• Knowledge and understanding of budgets and forecasts.
• Strong IT skills, including proficient use of Microsoft Excel.
• The ability to prioritise tasks in a complex, changing environment.
• Excellent communication skills with the confidence to present to financial and non-financial partners.
• The ability to spot new opportunities and drive continuous improvement.

What sets this company apart:

Our client is a commercial organisation with a purpose beyond profit. They offer an opportunity to contribute towards building a stronger business and stronger communities. They provide a competitive salary, coaching, training and support for personal development, generous pension contributions, an annual incentive scheme, and increasing holiday entitlement with service. They also offer discounts on products and services. They are committed to building an inclusive work environment where everyone can contribute their best work and develop to their full potential.

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