Description
Business Job Title
FP&A Manager - Group Functions
Contract Length
6 months
Location
UK - Windsor
Job Overview
Purpose Statement
- The FP&A Manager - Group Functions, is a role in the FP&A Opex team, within the Finance Operations function.
- Group Functions comprise the 11 global shared functions across the group, totalling in excess of 4,000 FTE and a budget of c. £1bn.
- Initially this role will be responsible for the Finance, Real Estate, Group Marketing, Technology and innovation and Health and Safety - those function have a spend of over £300m per annum.
- The role will be responsible for providing insight to stakeholders based in the UK and North America, ensuring effective management of the cost and FTE base, leading the forecasting process and delivering Opex reporting
- The role involves significant stakeholder management, both across the other areas of Finance Operations and Function/Business Unit teams to manage performance and roll out new consistent and global ways of working
- The FP&A Opex Manager role will also be an experienced FP&A professional who is able to operate strongly during a period of change
- The Finance function is moving into a new structure and has a transformation agenda to drive efficiency through its operations and maximise the use of our outsourced partnership with Accenture
- As such, successful candidates will be required to have a strong eye for detail, great stakeholder management skills, and a passion for change to help us design the future
- Personal and professional development in this role will be focused on leading the team towards efficient and effective global ways of working, as Finance Operations moves towards a best in class finance function
Accountabilities
- Develop a strong and effective process for delivering key financial forecasting, along with insightful performance reporting and analysis
- Actively contribute to the development of the team capabilities, through coaching, development, and learning experiences either for Direct Reports or via sharing knowledge and support of the wider FP&A team
- Proactively get to know the business areas supported, enabling a credible platform to provide high quality insight and challenge.
- Ensure excellent stakeholder engagement and expectation management across all deliverables
- Support Transformation activities through design and delivery of changes to forecasting/reporting methodologies, to drive greater understanding, efficiency and standardisation
- Co-ordinate the production of standard FP&A deliverables to the agreed format, timeline and quality.
- These will be supported by clear and focused messaging that supports the business area objectives.
- Deliver an accurate, efficient and transparent forecast which meets finance and business stakeholder requirements
- Review, challenge and develop a detailed understanding of the key inputs into the forecast process
- Produce insightful reporting and supporting analysis to ensure the business understands variances to plan and any future risk/opportunity is quantified.
- Work collaboratively with the wider Opex and outsourced teams, Finance Partners, FP&A BU teams and FC to align on key variances, core performance metrics and planning assumptions
- Responsible for engagement with relevant stakeholders across finance and the business
- Apply standards of Financial Control to FP&A processes to ensure key financial processes are structured to deliver accuracy and financial integrity
- Provide a high quality response to ad hoc queries demonstrating business understanding and analytical excellence
Competencies and Qualifications
Competencies
- Capable of managing multiple tasks in a high-pressure environment and delegating work effectively to meet tight deadlines
- Motivated by continuous improvement and high quality output
- Able to lead through a period of change, working flexibly for the good of the business
- Excellent communicator with strong analytical skills and ability to translate complex financial analysis into commercial insight
- Expertise in developing and maintaining large models, and analysing data
- Develops an understanding of the business in order to translate operational drivers into accurate accounts and reports
- Ability to pro-actively develop positive and highly effective working relationships, engaging key senior stakeholders as necessary to achieve desired outcomes
- Strong strategic thinking - able to step away from the detail to see the bigger picture and help shape the future
- Strong critical thinking and analytical skills to effectively challenge the business.
Education
- Accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)