My client, a fast-growing global business and one of the North West's recent success stories, are looking to hire an FP&A Manager to join the head office on the Wirral.

Working closely with the senior finance team, as well as non-finance stakeholders across the business, the FP&A Manager will take a lead on the annual budgeting, reforecasting, and rolling latest view processes. The FP&A Manager will collate data from Business Partners within Finance and across the business, to ensure that this supports the business goals and long-term strategy.

Working as part of a team, this role will also prepare internal and external reporting, to present expected and actual outcomes of the Group.

This is a fantastic opportunity to enhance your anaytical and commercial finance skills, within a sociable, supportive and fast-paced business, with huge scope to progress longer term.

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing the annual multi-year budget process, reforecasts and rolling latest views.
• Ensuring budgeting and reforecasting timetables are updated, communicated, and managed, including ensuring senior stakeholder sessions are managed and delivered.
• Full ownership of data, and responsibility for compiling Group inputs to prepare statutory income statement, balance sheet and cashflow reporting, as well as internal management accounts.
• Ownership of monthly management accounts pack, including standardisation of reporting formats and content across the Group.
• Collaboration with wider Finance colleagues to align on external and internal reporting requirements, to ensure consistency of reporting and to generate appropriate internal sign off policies.
• Providing data and supporting analysis to show variations in performance, year on year movements, sensitivities to assumptions etc.
• Preparation and presentation of budget packs.
• Management of "desktop" modelling and scenario analysis
• Utilising business and market knowledge to prepare and present regular reforecasts, and to challenge longer term inputs and assumptions.
• Creating a standardised input for Finance Business Partners to provide timely updates.
• Driving budgeting and forecasting efficiencies through use of systems/tools.
• Collaborating with other team members to maintain a high performing finance function.

The ideal candidate will be:

• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)
• Previous FP&A experience, ideally within a complex global organisation
• Strong management and financial accounting experience
• Strong Excel skills, ideally with knowledge of other reporting systems eg Power BI
• Excellent communication skills, with ability to work across all levels of finance globally

To apply to this fantastic opportunity, please get in touch ASAP!

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