Group FP&A Manager

Application Deadline: 1 October 2024 Department: Finance Location: Andover

Description

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Are you searching for a career with bags of variety, in an environment that celebrates differences and empowers collaboration, which values individuals and will encourage you to make an impact? Do you want the freedom to explore, and the opportunities to find new ways and to innovate? If so, TwiningsOvo delivers.

We’re looking for people who don’t just come here to get the job done, but who have a real passion for the brand and a desire to do the best job they can. In return, we offer an inspiring package of employee benefits - to show just how much we value you. This role will offer you the scope for growth and the tools to aim high.

The FP&A Manager plays a critical role in supporting the continuous improvement of the performance and growth of the Twinings Ovo business by providing a key link between the businesses and the Twinings Ovo Group leadership team.

The role is responsible for partnering with a number of Twinings Ovo Business Units maintaining a detailed understanding of their performance, commercial challenges and operations and using this to provide genuine commercial insight regarding possible opportunities for growth or further development to both the markets and the Twinings Ovo leadership team.

Key Responsibilities

• Acts as a business analyst for a number of the Group’s Business Units, with specific responsibility for maintaining “business partner” relationship with BU management, developing a close understanding of the levers and financial performance of the BU ensuring there are no surprises.
• Provides high quality financial and commercial resource to BU and group management supporting the delivery of the business agenda.
• Supports CEO and CFO in reviews with Business Units.
• Provides genuine and thought-leading insight and recommendations to BU and leadership team by developing a comprehensive understanding of the BU, market within which they operate, consumer dynamics, competitive responses, and the strategic options and direction.
• Plays a vital role in the group’s planning, budgeting & forecasting processes, including synthesising insight and analysis from reporting systems data.
• Leads or supports the build of CEO/CFO quarterly presentations to ABF board.
• Reviews period reporting from BUs and of Group Finance teams’ first level control & analysis, pulling together top line summary to ABF.
• Responsible for the design of value-adding reporting processes and analysis tools for the group and providing direction to Group Finance team in maintaining those processes.
• Anticipates the information requirements of senior leadership team and works with the BU’s to meet these requirements
• Leads or provides functional lead on major projects across the group, including investment and acquisition evaluations, business development, efficiency reviews, strategic initiatives etc.
• Reviews and inputs to the evaluation of capital projects and marketing investments, providing insight and recommendations to senior Twinings Ovo & ABF management.
• Facilitates and supports business-wide functional agenda to build finance partnering capabilities, and improving awareness and skills throughout the group, including sharing of best practice. This can cover areas such as marketing ROI, price realisation, NPD evaluations, cost efficiencies, in addition to generic partnering/influencing skills.
• Develops and maintains a broad network of key working relationships across the business.