Hawkstone
Head of FP&A and Commercial Finance
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About Hawkstone
Hawkstone started in 2021 with a simple idea: make properly good lager, cider and spirits using the best British-grown ingredients, without cutting corners. Jeremy Clarkson launched us alongside the team at Cotswold Brewing Company and creative agency The & Partnership.
Originally a way to utilise barley from Diddly Squat Farm, we’ve evolved into a brewery working closely with British farmers of barley, apples and hops. We don’t just make craft beer—we builder graft beer.
Our progress speaks for itself. From a standing start, we hit £45 million in revenue by March 2026, fuelled by average annual growth of over 128% for three consecutive years. We’re stocked in over 2,000 retail outlets (Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Morrisons, and Costco), served in 4,000+ pubs and bars, and exported to 10 European countries. The Sunday Times ranked us the 24th fastest-growing company in Britain. We’re hungry to keep this momentum going—and that’s where you come in.
The Role: Head of FP&A
We’re growing faster than most—but now, we need someone to build a £100m+ business’s financial planning engine. You’ll be the Head of FP&A: turning data into decisions, building processes from scratch, and partnering closely with commercial and sales leadership.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Planning & Forecasting
- Own and continuously improve Hawkstone’s rolling forecast and planning processes across P&L, balance sheet and cash flow.
- Develop scalable FP&A processes, models and reporting frameworks suited to a fast-scaling business.
- Lead the annual budgeting cycle, reforecasts, and long-range planning in partnership with the Finance Director and commercial team.
- Deliver scenario planning, sensitivity analysis for strategic decision-making.
- Improve forecasting accuracy and give visibility into performance drivers.
- Support the development of integrated business planning and S&OP (Sales & Operations Planning) processes.
- Design planning tools and templates for the leadership team.
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Commercial Finance & Business Partnering
- Work side-by-side with commercial leadership, influencing promotions, customer investment, and strategic growth.
- Conduct detailed analysis on promotions, customer profitability, channel mix, and trade investment.
- Evaluate promotional ROI and recommend investment deployments.
- Analyse and challenge production/distribution costs to boost efficiency and margin.
- Provide ad-hoc commercial analysis for senior teams.
- Build tools to help non-finance teams understand performance.
** Reporting, Cash Management & Leadership**
- Oversee cash forecasting, ensuring visibility on liquidity and funding needs.
- Own month-end reporting, including trade marketing and retro spend management.
- Improve financial/commercial reporting with the Financial Controller.
- Give insights into variances and correlating decisions.
- Provide real-time, quantified SLT perspectives—mapping risks/opportunities.
- Develop finance processes, controls, and collaborative models for growth.
- Build and grow FP&A team as the company expands.
Systems, Data & Process Improvement
- Enhance FP&A tools, reporting and data infrastructure.
- Improve visibility into trade spend, sales rate, distribution.
- Use AI and modern tools to increase accuracy, efficiency.
- Drive reflection and continuous improvement across financial systems.
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Requirements & Qualifications
✅ Chartered Accountant credentials ACA, ACCA, or CIMA. ✅ 5+ years of elite FP&A experience, favouring FMCG, consumer brands, drinks. ✅ Fast-growth expertise, preferably on revenue scales of £50M–£100M+. ✅ Experience in wholesale, grocery or multi-channel FMCG, food, drink. ✅ Effective partnering with Sales/Commercial teams and senior stakeholders. ✅ F fluent in Excel, Power Query, and BI tools. ✅ Proven track record of scaling business planning, forecasting models.
Ideal Candidate Traits
🔹 Self-starter—prefers building from scratch over waiting for a plan. 🔹 Problem-solver—able to distill complexity into clear solutions. 🔹 Flair for hard-talking with data, uncomfortable with ambiguity yet unafraid. 🔹 Equal parts strategic and detail-oriented. 🔹 Says what needs saying—unfiltered communication. 🔹 Adaptability: growth means constant change, you thrive under flexibility.
What We Offer
💰 Competitive salary + performance bonus. 🏢 Hybrid/remote (1x in-office at our Cotswolds brewery, or Soho HQ, your choice!). ✈️ 25 days holiday + bank holidays + a birthday off. 🎁 Holiday Purchase Scheme (5 extra unpaid “leave to explore” days). 💼 Pension pot match (100% rate). 🚑 Health insurance + UK life assurance. 🍻 Team socials and 사고 камни (compensation for “research money”). 🚀 Future fashion: ELite role in FP&A, foundational in a UK’s most exciting consumer brand.
How to Apply
All applications must go via our partners at Agora Talent.ajaon does not consider unsendo directly to us.
For more: agencies.talent.hawkston
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