Swindon, Wiltshire, England
Financial Services
Permanent | Full Time
ASAP
15/01/2025
12/02/2025
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.