Title: FP&A Manager
Reports to: Head of Finance
Based at: Brookhouse Mill
Job purpose: A newly created role to further strengthen the role of Finance in supporting and challenging business performance and decisions. Reporting to the Head of Finance and leading a small team of Business Partners, this role will be responsible for a range of duties including:
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Management:
- Lead the activities of a small business partnering team with key stakeholders at all levels across the business and providing ongoing support with projects, analysis and monthly reporting
Business Partnering:
- Engage with all of the business including Sales, Marketing, Product Development, Procurement, Manufacturing, Distribution, Customer Experience, IT to support and challenge performance
- Responsible for the Capex process and all necessary analysis in support of developing business cases to achieve sign off of investment
- Review and challenge proposals/business cases
- Support for sales team in pricing reviews and sales territory changes
Planning:
- Coordination of the annual budgeting process, working with the business to identify risks and issues and support the development of the internal reviews, leadership challenge and Board discussions
- Forecasting: provide up to date forward views of expected performance by working with the business, leading the process and analysing financial results identifying risks and opportunities whilst reviewing against actual results
- Develop and continuously improve planning models
Analysis and Reporting:
- Improving the flow and quality of financial information which is available
- Interpreting data, analysing results, making proposals
- Providing ongoing reports
- Work with the management team to prioritise business and information needs
- Work with BI and IT teams to ensure the team has access to the necessary data on a timely basis
- Ad-hoc reports, continuous improvement and process reviews
Team Cormar:
- Adhere to and promote the Cormar Values
Other:
- Cover team duties as required
- Understand how own role and KPI’s impact on organisation and department objectives
- Support Head of Finance to deliver the above
Skills / Qualifications:
- ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified
- Able to demonstrate relevant experience of leading a team and adding value to Finance and the business, minimum 3-5 years PQE
- Commercial awareness and business partnering skills
- Advanced excel user
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organise, analyse, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to work with data sets from multiple systems with a clear aim of understanding and communicating performance
- Good communicator
- The ability to adapt skills, support and assist other work areas whenever necessary
- Adept at queries, report writing and presenting findings
- Ability to concentrate within a busy environment
- Experience of ERP in a manufacturing environment is highly desirable
Some of the benefits you can expect to receive as a FP&A Manager are 30 days’ holiday increasing to 35 after 5 full years’ service, discretionary annual bonus, private medical care (after 12 months service), generous pension (after 3 months service), free on-site parking and a substantial discount on our ranges.
Please send applications to Carla Grant, HR Manager, Cormar Carpets, Brookhouse Mill, Greenmount, Bury BL8 4HR, or email carla.grant@cormarcarpets.co.uk.
