An exciting new role working for a leading private equity backed business going through an exciting period in the companies steep history. The role as FP&A Assistant Manager is newly created role to support the Head of Commercial Finance and one of it's key result areas is to help the senior leadership team to understand performance drivers, risks and opportunities through complex financial and operational analysis. The target audience is an ACA qualified Accountant from practice (perhaps from Corporate Finance or Transaction Services or Restructuring, a commercially focussed accountant from another service line would be considered) or a suitably qualified CIMA/ACCA qualified accountant with a heavy bias towards financial analysis, business partnering and commercial / analytically focussed finance roles.
The role's main aim is to support the development of useful financial and management information, which can be used for good decision-making and to identify opportunities, and then to support the leadership in designing and delivering the resulting initiatives and projects.
Specifically, this role is responsible for:
- Provide support in the group financial planning and analysis including annual and quarterly cycles.
- Oversee the management of a complex financial and operational budget model inclusive of future development.
- Continued development of the budgetary /forecast pack
- Support the strategic planning processes.
- Insightful management reporting which provides a detailed understanding of the operational and financial dynamics of the operations.
- Insightful reporting of key strategic projects on a daily/weekly & monthly basis.
- Work cross functionally to monitor & reduce costs and identify opportunities for profitable growth through the budget and forecasting cycle.
- Prepare monthly reporting packs for the Board and investors.
- Develop insightful KPI reporting for decision support and manage productivity factors
- Identifying and quantifying improvement opportunities and risk.
- Preparing and presenting business cases for new initiatives, projects and asset investments.
- Ad-hoc analysis of both BAU operations and specific projects which drives and supports improvements in company capability and profitability.
This is an outstanding new role to market that gives the individual to come in to what would be a blank canvass and shape the role to how they want it to be. Genuine opportunities for development in what is a very fast paced and exciting sector.