Fp&A Manager

Company Details & Job Overview:
Based on the outskirts of Blackburn, this fast paced, highly successful group boast a number of industry awards and are one of the fastest growth business units in the UK. Operating across the globe they offer state of the art offices, with a number of on-site facilities. Within easy commute from the M65, they are a business who strive on quality and actively seek to promote from within. With a number of areas in growth, they have a newly established position within the finance function. Seen as a local employer of choice the group offer a number of employment benefits.
Benefits:
Flexible working pattern (Core hours 5 days a week in the office)
Enhanced holidays
Bonus scheme
Life assurance
Your New Role As Group Financial Planning Manager:
The Group Financial Planning Manager is responsible for managing business planning processes including annual budget, weekly rolling forecasting and long-term planning. Reporting to the Head of Group FP&A, this role is suited to an experienced FP&A professional that understands performance beyond the P&L and can bring experience to help further develop this area of the business.
Duties & Responsibilities
• Manage team members, including performance management and development
• Lead business planning processes focussing on key drivers and macro assumptions
• Manage the weekly rolling forecast process, ensuring it reflects the most up-to-date financial information.
• Work closely with business units to capture and incorporate changes in market conditions, sales forecasts, and operational developments, reporting regularly to senior management
• Drive the annual budgeting process by coordinating with department heads and senior management to gather input and align budgeting goals with the company's strategic objectives.
• Prepare, consolidate, and review the budget, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and adherence to financial guidelines. Create, and maintain financial models, long term forecasts and scenario planning to support strategic decision making including providing the model to 3rd parties such as banks and investors in relation to M&A activity and refinancing
• Improve forecasting processes, including with Treasury & Fixed Asset Teams on Cash Flow and working capital and Capex Planning that are accurate and efficient to produce and track against forecast accuracy to be measured through KPIs
• Act as a key contributor to the continual improvement of the SAP planning tool, making recommendations for enhancements and streamlining processes.
• Train and educate relevant staff members on the effective use of the SAP planning tool
• Support Audit cycle including preparation of Going concern model and draft papers
• Continually review published FP&A best practice to support continuous evolution of the department
Experience & Qualifications Required To Apply:
To be considered for this role you shall be a qualified accountant (CIMA ACA ACCA) with experience in a similar Financial Planning role. With strong attention to detail you shall have a strong understanding across financial planning and analysis, preferably in a managerial capacity. With the ability to produce, and maintain financial models you shall have the ability to proritise workload in a fast-paced environment.
Salary And Reward On Offer:
With a competitive salary you will be working alongside like-minded professionals in an environment where there is opportunity to develop and progress. There are many on-site facilities and the office space is a collaborative area where divisions and departments facilitate and welcome interaction across all levels. There are a number of benefits and as the business continue to grow, so to will the ability to add value in a fast-paced, award winning business.
This role is being handled by Darren Cadman, Kenton Black Finance
Kenton Black Finance operate across the UK as a market leading recruitment partner, specialising in the attraction of finance talent across both permanent and interim requirements. With a team of dedicated experts, each with longevity operating in the finance arena, we maintain a proven track record and have established partnerships with businesses both large, small and those in their infancy. Market leaders, we provide recruitment solutions from entry level finance to directorship professionals. Operating from local offices in Preston, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Birmingham and Glasgow, Kenton Black Finance remain a dynamic and effective recruitment partner who represent and attract only the finest finance talent in the local area and across the UK.