N Brown Group
Group FP&A Manager
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Group FP&A Manager
We’re looking for a Group FP&A Manager to join our finance team here at N Brown.
What will you do as Group FP&A Manager N Brown?
Responsible for the preparation of the forecasting, planning and performance analysis/reporting for the Group covering the multi brand retail business, £0.4billion loan book and transformation capital investment program. Including,
- Strategic Planning and Forecasting: Owning the day-to-day work of creating budget, rolling forecasts and long-range financial plans (3 years).
- Performance Reporting and Analysis: Prepare monthly reporting packs, variance analysis, and interpreting financial trends to support business decisions.
- Commercial Insights and Modelling: Building financial scenarios to support strategic decisions, such as investment appraisals.
- Business Partnering: Partnering with leaders across the Group to track performance and understand variances.
- Cash Management Support
- Liquidity and Cash Management: Own day to day work of creating weekly cashflow forecasts.
- Funding and Capital Strategy: Prepare reporting of banking covenants across the securitisation facility and revolving credit facility.
- Risk Management: Execute and manage interest rate and foreign exchange trades to mitigate financial risks.
- Governance and Compliance: Ensure compliance with treasury policies, internal controls and regulatory requirements.
- Relationship Management: Maintain key relationships with banks, lenders, rating agencies and internal stakeholders.
What skills and experience will you have?
We are looking for an experienced candidate from a numerical, accountancy, audit or analytical background. The successful candidate will be qualified (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) with significant post qualification experience and have:
- Significant experience of financial control and financial modelling
- Significant experience of design, governance, evaluation and testing of forecasting models and gaining full stakeholder engagement
- Ability to efficiently manage large amounts of data, ensuring clear audit trail and strong model governance
- Experience in cash and liquidity management.
- Strong storytelling skills to explain financial results to non-financial stakeholders. Being able to clearly communicate business drivers and the variables up to Board level.
- Ability to influence and negotiate across the organisation and experienced in communicating commercial language with a variety of media.
- Strong experience in managing and building key internal and external stakeholder relationships,
- Naturally inquisitive with a desire to understand a broad range of commercial issues.
- Strong operational delivery track record, motivated to implement/deliver on time to quality standards and build new efficient processes
- Demonstrated ability to quickly appraise complex situations, identify key issues and make timely decisions
- A track record of process improvement, enhancing financial processes through simplification and automation.
- Strong MS Office skills, particularly Excel
- Experience of data languages (SQL) and Teradata is desirable
- Experience in Power BI is desirable
- Experience of Oracle Cloud Financial Systems and TM1 is desirable but not essential
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What’s in it for you?
- Hybrid working (3 days in the office at a minimum)
- 24 days holiday (+ 8 bank holidays)
- Annual bonus scheme
- Enhanced maternity and adoption leave
- Company pension with up to 8% N Brown contribution
- Mental Health support both internally and externally, including access to our wellbeing champions and counselling services
- A range of financial wellbeing support
- Stream - a financial wellbeing tool that helps you track your pay, access earnings early and manage your money with confidence
- Colleague discount across all N Brown brands
- Onsite café with subsidised rates and local restaurant discounts!
- Life Assurance and Private Medical Insurance
- Paid volunteer time – all our colleagues can take a full day paid to volunteer for a charity of their choice
N Brown – who we are and why work for us?
N Brown is a leading UK digital retail platform for clothing, footwear, home and technology, headquartered in Manchester and employing over 1,000 people nationwide. Through our strategic retail brands JD Williams, Jacamo and Simply Be and our unique payments offering, we exist to champion inclusivity and serve the underserved. Our customers are our passion, and we take great pride in delivering products that ensure they can look and feel amazing, without compromising on choice, value and accessibility.
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We’re committed to building a diverse workforce and creating an inclusive environment that values equality for all. Our vision is that by ‘By championing inclusion, N Brown will become the UK’s most loved and trusted consumer platform, shaping the future of financial empowerment and personal expression’. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging are, therefore, at the heart of our culture.
In May 2024 we were delighted to be named one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024. We work hard to create a happy and inclusive culture for everyone and we’re so proud to have made this list - as voted for by our very own colleagues!
Ways of Working
We offer hybrid working which varies across the business depending on the role you’re in. Our Head Office is located in the Northern Quarter in Manchester City Centre. So if you are travelling by train, tram or bus we’re perfectly located, plus we’re surrounded by cool cafes, trendy bars and the best places to eat!
Our working hours are 36.17 per week over 5 days.
We believe AI will become a standard part of modern professional practice. We are therefore looking for individuals who are open to learning, testing, and responsibly adopting AI tools to improve efficiency, insight, and impact in their role.
Our promise to you:
We’re an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Please know your application is being reviewed by a real human being, not AI. We value your interest in joining us and appreciate you taking the time to submit your application.
What happens when you apply to a role at N Brown?
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