FP&A Manager

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Job Title: FP&A Manager

Location: London (Hybrid: 2 days in-office, 3 remote)

About the Role:

This is a key role within the FP&A team, essential to shaping the Group's long-term strategy and the future success of the UK business. Reporting to the Head of FP&A, you'll work closely with senior management and have significant autonomy. As the business continues to grow and evolve, you will lead the development of both new and existing reporting systems, with a focus on enhancing profitability and driving performance. You'll also play a crucial role in advancing our reporting and budgeting system (Vena).

Key Responsibilities:

• Own financial performance reviews for the UK business, ensuring accuracy and timely month-end closure.
• Lead month-end reviews, providing analysis and commentary on key metrics (e.g., postage and labour costs).
• Prepare reporting packs for leadership and the board, delivering insights on performance vs budget/forecast.
• Work with the FP&A and Financial Control teams to improve reporting processes and develop Vena reporting.
• Provide business partnering support, collaborating with senior stakeholders to challenge and improve performance.
• Lead the preparation of UK budget/forecast submissions, ensuring alignment across the business.
• Develop intra-month reporting to enable timely trading decisions.
• Support business cases for new initiatives and track ROI.
• Contribute to ad hoc duties and special projects as needed.

Person Specification:

• Qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) with significant experience in FP&A and finance business partnering.
• Excellent communicator, able to simplify complex topics for various audiences.
• Proven ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels, including the Group CFO.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with a collaborative team mindset.
• Proactive, with a passion for turning data into actionable insights.
• Skilled in MS Excel and experienced in producing board packs and commentary.
• Experience with Vena and/or Tableau is a plus.
• High standards of accuracy and the ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Resilient and adaptable, capable of thriving in a fast-paced, private equity-backed environment.

Why Join Us?

This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to a fast-growing business backed by private equity, where you can make a significant impact on the finance function. We offer career progression, hybrid working, and the chance to collaborate with senior leadership.

Location:

Based in our London office, a short walk from Kings Cross station. Our hybrid model includes 2 days in-office and 3 days remote. Flexibility and occasional travel to other UK and international sites may be required.

Ready to drive the future of our finance function? Apply now!

Our Group

Founded in 2002, World of Books is a circular economy, for profit company that supports charities and protects the planet by enabling more goods to be reused. We are pioneers in the re-use and recycling of unwanted books, recycling about 80 million books each year, equivalent to around half a million trees.

We achieve this through three direct-to-consumer e-commerce businesses, supported by our own technology.

Find out more about the World of Books Group here: https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/about-us/group

World of Books

Is the UK's largest seller of used books online; selling to over 190 countries through our own website, marketplaces and wholesale partners. World of Books inventory is in excess of 4 million books, purchased from UK charities in return for payment and saving their waste disposal costs.

For those books we cannot sell, we ensure they are recycled and turned into products such as newspaper, cardboard packaging and tissue products.

Find out more about World of Books here: https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/about-us

Ziffit.com

Establishedin 2013, to buy unwanted books, CD's DVD's, Blu-ray and console games directly from consumers via its market leading app. The smart technology enables consumers to use their mobile device to scan a product bar code or to simply tap in an ISBN code from a book for an instant valuation.

Ziffit sells all its books, CDs, DVDs and games via World of Books own website or partner websites such as Amazon and eBay.
Find out more about Ziffit.com here: https://www.ziffit.com/en-gb/about-us

World of Rare Books

Sells books published prior to 1970 (including rare, vintage and 1st edition titles) alongside vinyl and other ephemera through our own websites and other marketplaces. This business offers one of the largest selections of pre-ISBN books in the market and is the largest supplier of wholesale vintage books for decoration in Europe.

Find out more about World of Rare Books: https://www.worldofrarebooks.com/about-us

Our Technology

Our success is underpinned by our technology. We have developed bespoke software solutions to tackle changing market conditions and pricing. Our technology manages our warehouse, streams our stock and extends our reach to over 20 global marketplaces.

Our Vision

To be the leading seller of used books globally, while helping people to reuse and recycle for less through innovation and technology

Our Values

Responsibility: We work responsibly, value each other and treat the planet with respect.

Action: We take actions that improve our business for customers, colleagues, partners and shareholders.

Pioneering: We find new ways to better ourselves, lower our costs and grow our business.

Business for Good

World of Books Group is committed to using its business as a force for goodin the world and we take our social and environmental responsibilities seriously. Our business model is designed to do good: helping charities, the environment and providing access to literature. As our business grows, so will its impact across these areas.

Other details

• Job Family Finance & Analytics
• Pay Type Salary

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