FP&A Analyst

Company Description

Join us at Greene King the country's leading pub company and brewer, where our mission is to pour happiness into lives and become the pride of great British hospitality. We have something special, deeply rooted in our 220-year brewing and pub history, creating the business we are proudly known for today. Still today our 39,000 strong team are the guardians of what’s wholly British, the pub experience.

Job Description

As an FP&A Finance Analyst, you’ll be at the core of our Brewing & Brands Finance team, where your work is essential to driving the financial success of our business. This role will be crucial in navigating the Brewing & Brands business through providing high quality insight, influencing key stakeholders and driving material business impact at every level of the organisation.

Qualifications

• Applies a level of skill and knowledge in a range of situations but recognising that there are still some areas of development in this role at this level
• Understands the strategy of the business and the role of finance in delivering it.
• Supports Business Partners with extraction and manipulation of data from Greene King’s various Management Information Systems, validating this data and preparing detailed analysis and performance metrics as required.
• Investigates and identifies anomalies with data and proposes solutions to correct.
• Provides direct support to FP&A Lead and Finance Director on project/ad hoc work as required.
• Owns the Risks & Opps process within B&B Finance, a key tool which facilitates horizon scanning and forward business planning to drive early warning system for course correction where appropriate.
• Understands the principles of budgeting/forecasting and how to identify variances to actual performance.
• Plays a crucial role in the end-to-end budget process producing consolidations, identify checks, building checks and questioning variance to relevant comparators. Producing bridges and completing templates for Corporate and internal purposes.
• Validates all data for inclusions in FP&A reporting templates. Completes these reports and ensures all analysis is complete and accurate. Suggests and develops improvements to reporting processes and outputs where it is felt there are improvements to be had.
• Provides support for the period end reporting across the Brewing & Brands Finance Team as required.
• Takes part and adds value to period end close meetings, supports with any P&L queries both with variance analysis and technical mappings.
• Consolidates and analyses data and reports as required by the Brewing & Brands Exec.
• Liaises/works closely with the Centre of Excellence Finance teams to ensure all data and reports received by Brewing & Brands are complete and the right quality, with an ongoing focus on continual process improvement.
• Understands the need for robust financial governance in the business together with adherence to the wider Group’s policies.
• Has a general understanding of Brewing & Brands’ business streams and its value to other parts of the business.
• Completes ad hoc analysis and reporting for the wider Brewing & Brands Finance Team as required.
• Is the go-to contact for Corporate queries on P&L, Balance Sheet and Budget/Forecast.
• Reviews existing business processes (As-is), identifies areas for improvement, and develops future-state processes (To-Be) to establish the required business needs.
• Supports the periodic in-period forecasting process providing reasons for any variances. Offers possible solutions to align the budget with targets.
• Provides senior leadership with insights around trends in the data, considering internal and external factors to support strategic decision making flagging potential Risks and Opportunities.