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FP&A Accounting Manager
Accounting Manager (FP&A) – Pladis
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Join PLADIS, a fast-growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing in iconic brands, infrastructure, and people. As dedicated bakers and chocolatiers, we prioritise high-quality ingredients and top-tier talent. If you’re an entrepreneurial spirit with a passion for driving happiness and share our Winning Traits—purpose-driven, resilient, and collaborative—we’d love to welcome you on board.
PLADIS offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap, unmatched learning opportunities, and the chance to make a real impact.
About the Role
The Accounting Manager sits within the Forecasting, Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team and holds end-to-end accountability for:
- The UK&I month-end close
- SG&A accounting
You’ll ensure timely, high-quality outputs with a strong financial discipline across the Finance function. Your responsibilities include:
- Day-to-day leadership of the month-end close
- Oversight of offshore Management Accounting teams
- End-to-end SG&A accounting ownership
- Business partnering with HR & IS for cost control
- Monthly SG&A P&L integrity with clear cost tracking.
- Delivering clean, explainable close processes with forward-looking actual vs. forecast bridges
Operating at the intersection of technical accounting judgment and cross-functional leadership, you will:
- Partner closely with HR, IS, and FP&A teams
- Escalate and resolve challenges efficiently
- Drive continuous improvement across all processes
Key Responsibilities
Month-End Close Leadership
- Own end-to-end UK&I month-end close, with accounting accountability for UK&I SG&A
- Lead the close schedule and interact with an offshore team, setting clear ownership, deadlines, and sequencing
- Ensure the close process is:
- Timely and predictable
- Clearly owned and backed by review and sign-off
- Compliant with group accounting policies and controls
- Be the primary point of escalation for close issues, resolving them quickly and pragmatically
- Drive continuous improvement in efficiency, quality, and discipline
- Provide a clean, understandable bridge from actuals to the forecast and plan.
SG&A Accounting & Business Partnering
- Own end-to-end SG&A accounting, ensuring costs are:
- Complete and accurately recorded
- Correctly classified and allocated
- Consistently reflected in actuals, forecasts, and plans
- Work closely with HR and IS for cost transparency, accuracy, and control.
- Hold clear ownership over:
- Accruals and prepayments
- Provisions and estimates
- Material movements (vs. prior period/forecast)
- Apply accounting judgment, balancing technical precision with commercial pragmatism.
- Provide visibility and challenge on actual vs. forecast spend.
- Partner with HR, IS, and FP&A to ensure a consistent, supported cost view.
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P&L Integrity, Review & Governance
- Custodian of SG&A P&L integrity, ensuring:
- Clear cost ownership
- Consistent application of accounting policies
- Robust and transparent use of judgment/estimates
- Engage with Cost Centre Managers to:
- Enforce SG&A spend transparency and planning
- Challenge trends, timing, and misclassification if required
- Reinforce cost-control accountability and discipline
- Review and challenge unusual items, reclassification, or trends with HR, IS, and FP&A teams.
- Collaborate closely to correct inconsistencies and ensure no reliance on off-cycle fixes.
Line Management & Accountability
- Manage the FP&A Analyst (Direct Marketing spend):
- Conduct 1:1s, objective-setting, and performance reviews
- Provide professional development support
- Ensure accounting outputs:
- Are measureable, explainable, and auditable
- Do not have unexplained variances at month-end.
- Maintain high-quality documentation for all judgments, estimates, and cost reviews.
Controls, Best Practices & Standards
- Ensure SG&A and close processes align with strong financial controls.
- Establish clear standards for:
- Accruals and documentation accuracy
- Audit readiness and review approvals
- Share established best practices across Accounting and FP&A teams to reduce key-person dependency.
- Collaborate with Internal Audit and Control teams to address findings sustainably.
Key Relationships
- Direct Reports:
- FP&A Analyst – Direct Marketing
- Other Engagements:
- FP&A Teams
- Full Finance Function
- Offshore Management Accounting Team
- HR Leadership
- IS Leadership & Tech Budget Holders
- Finance Transformation
- Internal/External Audit
- Group/Regional Finance Partners.
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Requirements & Criteria
Essential:
✅ Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent). ✅ Strong technical expertise in month-end close and P&L drafting. ✅ Experience ownership of complex close processes in a large organisation. ✅ Proven ability to lead offshore/shared-service teams. ✅ Judgment and analytical skills with the ability to challenge norms constructively. ✅ Talent to translate financial data into practical insights for non-finance stakeholders.
Desirable:
🚀 Experience in an SG&A-heavy environment. 🚀 Familiarity with SAP or a similar ERP system. 🚀 Experience in audit-intensive operating environments. 🚀 Line-management experience (ability to set clear objectives, coach, and elevate teams).
Key Success Metrics
The Accounting Manager will enable and achieve:
- A predictable, fast, and efficient month-end close process, audit-ready and highly trusted.
- Sharp, well-explained SG&A results, owned end-to-end by the finance team.
- No surprises for HR or IS in actual/forecasted budgets.
- Early issue detection and resolution, so problems do not surface as audit risks.
- Embedded, process-driven best practice, eliminating heavy reliance on key individuals.
- A geographically unified FP&A team, working quickly with shared purpose.
- A highly supported FP&A team; analysts are development-focused, clear in their roles, producing transparent and well-controlled Direct Marketing reporting.
Life at PLADIS
PLADIS is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to:
- Hiring diverse talent on qualifications alone, with full regard to race, colour, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, religion, disability, or any other legally protected classification.
This role adheres to our Preferred Supplier List Policy. If you’re a recruitment agency, please ensure compliance with our terms and confirm your PSL status.
We will only accept submissions from recognised PSL providers and will not pay arrangement fees for unauthorised candidates.
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