FP&A Manager

A fast-growing, award-winning multi-site operator in the leisure and hospitality sector is looking for a commercially minded FP&A Manager to step into a broad, high-impact role. With strong backing and ambitious expansion plans, the business offers an exciting opportunity to shape financial strategy and play a key part in its next phase of growth. This is a highly visible and hands-on role that reports directly into the CFO. You'll be a key business partner across multiple functions, helping to drive performance through data-led insight and robust financial planning. You’ll lead the budgeting and forecasting cycles, own key internal reporting, and play a vital part in long-term planning. This is also a people management role — you’ll be mentoring and developing a dedicated FP&A Analyst, ensuring consistent high standards and adding value across the board.

Key responsibilities include:

• Strategic Planning: Develop and implement a robust 3-Year Planning framework, working closely with the CFO and leadership team.

• Budgeting & Forecasting: Own the annual planning and budgeting process. Introduce and refine a quarterly reforecasting process that gives the business clarity and agility.

• Performance Reporting: Take charge of daily, weekly, and monthly reporting packs — providing clear, actionable KPIs that support decision-making across Operations, Marketing, and Finance.

• Operations Support: Act as a key partner to the Operations Director and Managers, providing analysis and commentary to drive performance at site level.

• Commercial Insight: Deliver detailed analysis on sales trends, spend per head, margins, and procurement — ensuring the business maximises profitability in every area.

• Capital Expenditure: Develop and maintain reporting for capex projects — covering new business openings, refurbishments, maintenance spend, and post-investment review.

• Systems & Tools: Become the go-to expert for reporting from key systems and help streamline how financial data is accessed and understood across the business.

• Ad Hoc Analysis: Support the CFO and wider Finance team on strategic projects, board reporting, investment cases and other analysis as needed.

• Team Management: Manage and support the FP&A Analyst, ensuring development, accuracy and a high standard of output.

Key Skills and Requirements:

You’re a fully qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA or ACA) with at least 2 years of post-qualified experience, and a strong grounding in FP&A. You're comfortable in a fast-paced, commercially driven environment and have a real passion for turning numbers into business insight. Ideally, you’ll have experience in hospitality, retail, or leisure — but more important is your ability to influence and communicate across all levels of the business.

You’ll bring:

• A CIMA, ACCA or ACA qualification

• Proven experience in FP&A, including budget ownership and forecast modelling

• Strong Excel skills and the ability to work with large data sets

• Experience supporting non-financial stakeholders, particularly in Ops or Commercial teams

• A proactive, detail-focused mindset with excellent organisational skills

• Experience in hospitality, leisure, or multi-site consumer businesses (ideal but not essential)

• Confidence in managing and developing junior team member

Why Join?

This is a brilliant opportunity to be at the heart of a growing, high-energy business where finance plays a central role in shaping the future. You’ll work alongside a down-to-earth and ambitious leadership team, gain exposure to strategic decision-making, and have the chance to make a real impact.

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