Location: Redhill, Surrey. Hybrid working, 2 days working from home per week
Summary: This role is key in ensuring accuracy of the reporting tool and in supporting the sales team in understanding customers/products profitability.
Reporting Line: Commercial FP&A Manager
Direct Reports: FP&A Analyst
Main Tasks & Responsibilities:
- Responsible for Month end tasks, in line with monthly deadlines:
- Liaising with Finance on monthly results
- Ensuring reporting tool accuracy for Actual and Forecast
- Ensuring accuracy of weekly and monthly stats
- Responsible for monthly variance analysis
- Responsible for logistics analysis and reporting
- Maintaining customer pricing tracker
- Responsible for product and customer codification/hierarchy
- Liaising with group on any issues and requirements linked to reporting tool
- Support other subsidiaries month end activities and reporting, to ensure accuracy for Actual and Forecast, in line with monthly deadlines
- Responsible for monthly Forecast and Budget
- Provide commercial analysis and P&Ls for products and customers
- Participate in monthly meetings with the subsidiary Board and with the Senior Team
- Lead the implementation of new reporting and forecasting tools in alignment with Group requirements
- Participate in project teams for new product launches, provide profit and loss projections for business cases highlighting any risks
- Deliver ad hoc analysis and scenario modelling to support business decisions
- Partner with teams across the business to support the delivery of financial objectives
- Manage a directly reporting analyst
Experience, knowledge and skills required:
- A minimum of five years’ experience in senior accounting or financial analysis roles
- ACCA or CIMA qualified
- Ability to analyse large volumes of data against key performance indicators and proactively communicate findings, trends and anomalies
- Advanced Excel skills are essential; experience with Power BI and Power Query is desirable
- Strong attention to detail and well-developed commercial acumen
- Confident written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively at all levels of the business
- Ability to manage competing priorities and consistently meet deadlines and targets
- Previous team management experience is desirable
- Experience within the FMCG sector is advantageous but not essential
The job description is intended to include the broad range of responsibilities and requirements of the role. It is neither exhaustive nor exclusive but while some variations will be expected, these will be at an appropriate level for the role.