Group FP&A Manager

Investigo are currently partnered with a global professional services company who are looking to add a Group FP&A Manager to work within their talented finance team.

This is a hybrid role requiring someone in 1 or max 2 days a week and has a salary range of £85-£95k plus bonus depending on experience.

The position will be responsible for bringing together the FP&A transformation streams acting as a key point of contact to align reporting, KPI, Investment appraisal and standardisation streams supporting the change and transformation agenda. The role will also require strong financial modelling capability being a key member of the team running and developing the Group Multi Statement financial model.

• Key point of contact in partnering with Group Transformation on Transformation projects costs and benefits tracking and aligning with Divisions and Functions across the business.
• Support Finance Transformation stream reporting/Model Building
• Take responsibility for running the Multi Statement Financial Model
• Support the Group Head of FP&A and Business Insights so that the Board, Executive leadership team, CFO and Group FP&A Director have meaningful, accurate reports and analysis.
• Key member of the team driving the continuous improvement
• Delivering ad hoc and project-based activities which support the change environment
• Supporting reporting and planning deck preparation reflecting the consolidated Financial Plan, Strategy Plan and Forecasts, leveraging, and working with EPM systems team to capture transformation and BAU related activity
• Supports the Group FP&A team to deliver robust and insightful planning decks for Board submission with particular focus all transformation related project costs and benefits.
• Support Group FP&A in business partnering during all planning cycles to ensure consistency in output and communication
• Delivering and supporting the continuous improvement of the monthly reporting activities ensuring deadlines are adhered to.
• Supports the business-wide trading performance reporting - KPIs, dashboards, commentary, and ad hoc analytics
• Performs analytics on financial performance as required
• Building out a structure for benefits tracking including key performance indicators appraisal
• Building out a FP&A governance and cadence around transformation cost reporting
• Brings out insightful commentary on all aspects of performance - with variance drivers clearly drawn out
• Key member of Group FP&A team delivering transformational activity on an enterprise level.
• Strong financial modelling experience able run and manage a Multi Statement model updating actual and forecast data
• Ability to critically work through the linkage between P&L, Balance Sheet and Cashflow within the Multi Statement Financial Model to ensure consistency and reconciliation
• Experience and confidence to work across Finance and 3rd parties to deliver improvements, robustness and consistency
• Ensure full alignment of financials working with the EPM team on core inputs and structures
• Key contributor to the development of an Investment Appraisal model
• Improves utilisation of technology to automate financial analysis, where possible from underlying systems and subsequently drives continuous improvements underlying systems and subsequently drives continuous improvements

Requirements;

• A qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with significant post-qualification, financial planning and financial modelling and business partnering experience, Commercial mindset
• Medium to large corporate FP&A and Business performance management, either at Group or in a Divisional role
• Experience in a change environment
• Proven ability in Financial Modelling and explain and communicate the insight
• Excellent numeracy, modelling, and analytical skills
• Excellent presentation skills using excel, PowerPoint, tableau, and Power BI
• Excellent financial planning, analytical and modelling
• Commercially astute
• Ability to self-serve data from GL and consolidation systems, distil and drive information and insight