Financial Planning & Analyst Manager

FINANCIAL PLANNING AND ANALYST MANAGER

Robert Half are delighted to be the exclusive recruitment partner to a leading green energy brand, that now seek to recruit an FP&A Manager to work directly with the CFO based at their Reading head office. This new role represents an excellent opportunity for and ambitious Commercial finance and controls lead, looking for broader responsibilities and the opportunity to make a real positive impact on a growing business.

The financial planning & analyst manager will be responsible for development of dashboards and models that will bring BI to the commercial / operational parts of the business and will play a key role in communicating management reporting, forecasting, working capital and cashflow actuals to the board, development of the P&L and ensure robustness in our core reporting systems. The successful candidate will be a commercially aware individual who will be technically proficient and will have up to date knowledge of all current accounting standards.

Duties:

• Enhance and manage the budgeting and forecasting process, working with stakeholders to support the strategic direction of the organisation
• Lead P&L and business review meetings with the leadership team
• Ownership of the delivery of monthly financial data to enable successful completion of financial reporting.
• Developing the monthly reporting cycle, with reporting across the organisation of financial performance, comparisons with budgets and relevant KPIs
• Incorporate enhanced variance analysis production for all group reporting purposes, including, detailed analysis and commentary on team/cost centre results
• Develop dashboard of KPI reporting and analytics, for leadership team
• Utilising BI tools to deliver meaningful insights into business performance
• Work closely with the financial accounting team to ensure accruals and reallocations are in line with expectations
• Lead meetings with portfolio teams/cost centre heads to build their annual budgets and quarterly forecasts
• Support Human Resources as Business Partner

Benefits:

• A highly competitive base salary of between £60,000 and £75,000 P/A based on the candidates experience
• A performance related bonus of up to 15% of salary
• 26 days holiday per annum
• Non contributory pension plan
• life assurance
• private healthcare
• A highly flexible working arrangement, with the ability to WFH 2 days a week
• Other great benefits on application

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