Senior FP&A Analyst

An outstanding opportunity has arisen for a Senior Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Analyst to join a multisite, Retail business based in Harrow. This role offers broad experience and significant exposure to key stakeholders. This is a 9 month contract role and needs someone to start ASAP.

Responsibilities:

• Produce annual business plans, budgets and forecasts
• Managing labour costs, forecasting labour, monitoring and financial modelling for different labour scenarios.
• Financial modelling to enhance through profitability investment opportunities and potential acquisitions
• Produce P&L, balance sheet and cashflow
• Report on key performance indicators and challenge Operations when required
• Produce analytical and commercial support to financial decision-making processes
• Build the assumptions documents for Budgets, Forecasts and Business Plans, ensuring assumptions are rigorously tested and align across functions
• Work with Commercial finance teams to produce standardised outputs that effectively communicate key messages in forecasts and budget.
• Support delivery of period end timetable identifying process improvement and driving changes throughout finance
• Present to the Senior leadership team the key variances to budget and YoY
• Support in any ad-hoc presentations for the Head of FP&A and CFO
• Identify, suggest and implement improvements to business processes and financial controls to increase efficiency and ensure all costs are recorded accurately in the accounts

Requirements:

• Qualified Accountant CIMA, ACA, ACCA
• Strong financial understanding & strong analytical skills to be able to identify issues and trends
• Financial modelling skills
• Preferably familiar with Retail or Multisite environments
• Business partnering experience with Operations