Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Senior FP&A leadership role + well-established FMCG business + drive short and long-term forecasting + lead planning process improvement + strong leadership support  

• Suit someone with genuine stratetic scope + FMCG exper 
• Work directly with exec & board level stakeholders + strong team
• Drive process improvements + newmarket based + highly regarded senior team

This role sits in a fast moving well established FMCG business.  It requires an experienced leader with the ability to be flexible and work in a changeable environment.  You'll work with the best, and have strong support around you.  The appointment of this position adds significant value to the growth of the team, and requires a confident calm operator, serious about your contribution, and capable working within the grey at times.  

Your ability to convert the data from sales, operations and supply change, and translate it into financially insightful reporting to the board and executive team is, at the core of the role.  You will influence the direction and decision making, owning the monthly reporting cycle and numbers, right through to genuinely long range modelling.  You will be comfortable with managing a small team under you, working closely with the finance business partners across the business as well as the commercial and operations team, it is collaborative, influential and very much front facing.  

You will be a valuable decision influencer, comfortable working in the details of a variance, but equally able to step back and look at the long range forecast.  

What you'll be doing:

• Owning monthly Board and executive reporting packs, including commentary on volume, price, mix, cost drivers, risks and opportunities
• Leading the annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting process, pulling together inputs from sales, operations, supply chain and head office into one consolidated view
• Building and maintaining long-term (5-10 year) financial models to underpin major strategic decisions, things like new markets, capital investment, supply constraints, and growth scenarios
• Assessing long-term profitability, cash generation, and balance sheet impact to support investment cases and strategy reviews
• Acting as the finance lead into an integrated business planning process, keeping demand, supply, inventory and financial outlooks aligned to a single source of truth
• Translating planning outcomes into updated forecasts, highlighting gaps to plan and the trade-offs that come with them
• Driving continuous improvement across planning systems and processes, this is a role that's expected to actively make things better, not just keep them running

This is a genuinely broad and challenging role and therefore requires the level of experience that means you are comfortable with shifting gears, agile with decision making, and calm under pressure.

What you'll bring:

• Strong FP&A or commercial finance experience within FMCG
• A genuine track record of driving delivery, not just reporting on what's already happened
• Comfort operating in the gray, someone who can make a call and move forward with constant change
• Experience building and owning financial models across multiple time horizons
• Flexibility and resilience when priorities shift
• The confidence to influence and present at Board and Executive level

If you love a role that will challenge you, a great team around you and you know that this level is your happy place, I'd love to hear from you. Please show an interest by clicking Apply to Liz Beckett today.