Senior FP&A manager

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Senior FP& Manager

FTSE 100 Retailer

£70,000 - £85,000 + bonus & benefits

Hybrid 3 days office / 2 wfh pw

Central London

MUST BE IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE / WITHIN c1 MONTH

Responsibilities:

Monthly Reporting

• Co-ordination and management of monthly processes ensuring team and key stakeholders aware of requirements and timelines.
• Management of the month end meeting with CFO including collation and understanding of results in advance of review sessions.
• Responsibility for Monthly board pack, working with the team to improve and adapt reporting to include relevant content in line with key initiatives
• Ownership of the month end position including the Group recharge model to provide accurate reporting by Brand and by Channel.
• Manage short term profit outlook outside of formal reforecast, collating updates across the team and keeping CFO informed.

Budget & Forecast

• Agree annual planning cycle and co-ordinate detailed timetables
• Collate roll up of results during process and keep Head of Commercial Finance/CFO informed of latest position at regular intervals allowing timely management of agreed budgets/forecasts.
• Work closely with Finance Systems team to improve processes and reporting.
• Agree content and co-ordinate board presentations taking responsibility for key reporting schedules.

Cashflow

• Responsible for direct cashflow forecast working closely with Group Finance/Treasury team to understand cash actuals and working with the Commercial team to keep live forecasts accurate and up to date.
• Improve current modelling and processes to update regularly and efficiently
• Ensure CFO has a reliable and up to date cash forecast to manage Group cash.
• Build and develop an indirect cashflow model working closely with Commercial Finance team on P&L inputs and Group Finance on balance sheet forecasts.

About You:

• Qualified Accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA)
• Experience in Retail / a Consumer Brand
• Demonstrable experience in Financial Planning & Analysis
• Franchise experience - highly desirable
• Multi-site and multi-departmental experience preferred
• Advanced Excel Skills
• Ability to communicate and simplify complex inputs and outputs
• Strong business acumen and able to simplify the business into a financial model
• An expert communicator and confident explaining complicated models to non-finance people.
• Experience in budgeting, forecasting and analysis