Goodman Masson
Financial Planning and Analysis Manager
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FP&A Manager — 6 Month Contract
Retail or FMCG experience would be highly beneficial but strong FP&A candidates will be considered. Start asap!!!
About the Role
This is a temporary 6-month role reporting into the Head of Commercial Finance - it could easily be extended as the business is expanding internationally so may present longer-term opportunities for the right, ambitious candidate.
The Head of Commercial Finance will provide oversight and direction, but the successful candidate will ideally take day-to-day ownership of the budgeting, forecasting and planning processes, bringing structure, control and momentum to key finance activities.
Responsibilities
- Lead the budgeting and forecasting processes end-to-end, managing timelines, templates, stakeholder inputs, review meetings and final outputs
- Work closely with the Head of Commercial Finance to ensure planning outputs are robust, clearly understood and aligned to business priorities
- Partner with commercial, finance and leadership teams to gather assumptions, challenge inputs and translate business plans into clear financial forecasts
- Own and improve planning models, templates and reporting packs, ensuring they are accurate, consistent, easy to use and fit for purpose
- Identify opportunities to improve existing budgeting and forecasting processes, including better ways to capture assumptions, track changes and communicate outputs
- Provide clear variance analysis, scenario modelling and insight to support decision-making across sales, margin, overheads, cashflow and wider business performance
- Support ad hoc analysis and project work as required, helping the business understand performance, risks, opportunities and trade-offs
- Bring strong organisation, attention to detail and proactive communication to ensure stakeholders know what is required, when it is required and how decisions will be made
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Qualifications
- Qualified accountant [ACCA / CIMA or equivalent], or qualified by experience in a senior FP&A role
- A highly organised and experienced FP&A professional with a strong track record of leading budgeting and forecasting processes end-to-end
- Comfortable taking ownership of complex planning cycles, managing timelines, coordinating inputs and ensuring outputs are accurate, clear and delivered on time
- Strong analytical capability, with experience interpreting complex data sets and turning analysis into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders
- Confident working independently in a temporary role, quickly building relationships and bringing structure, pace and control to planning processes
- A collaborative communicator who can influence across finance, commercial and leadership teams
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Required Skills
- Strong analytical capability
- Experience interpreting complex data sets
- Ability to build relationships quickly
- Proactive communication skills
- Experience in a senior FP&A role
- Ability to manage complex planning cycles
Pay Range and Compensation Package
- Competitive salary
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays (two bank holidays are interchangeable for other religious holidays)
- Health insurance
- Pension scheme
- Hybrid working (2 days wfh)
- Opportunity to work from abroad
- 50% employee discount
- Discounts at major retailers
- Salary sacrifice cycle and electric vehicle schemes
- A sizeable training budget to support your ongoing development
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