FP&A Manager

Your new company
Hays are working in partnership with a highly successful international manufacturing business to recruit a brand-new position to their existing finance team. We are seeking an experienced FP&A Manager to lead a newly formed team, with the purpose of delivering a comprehensive reporting function across multiple sites. This company is a market leader in its industry and produces a wide range of products across Europe.

Your new role
The main purpose of this role will be to oversee the preparation of weekly and monthly reporting cycles as well as driving annual planning, forecasting and analytics. You will own the analytical reporting standards and KPI modelling, while being a key point of contact between finance and various departments across 2 manufacturing sites. You will work in close conjunction with the factory finance team and operations leadership.
Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Manage the FP&A deliverables for a group of factories. Ensure all deliverables are satisfied in a timely and accurate fashion.
• Manage the relationship with the factory leadership and participate in factory leadership team meetings to present and discuss financial matters (actuals, variances, forecasts, annual plan, insights)
• Oversee weekly calculation and variance analysis of key metrics of the manufacturing site, including, but not limited to, production volumes, labour costs, fixed costs and transfer prices and their impact on the financial statements. Provide commentary and present to site leadership.
• Oversee the monthly / quarterly close of management accounts, including the involvement in the preparation of monthly data reporting packages that include analysis of KPIs and variance analysis and explanations, impact of drivers on budget/forecast, reviewing accruals and journals as required
• Build analysis reports across product costing, production variation, COGS statement and provide insights
• Review data from multiple systems and stakeholders, provide commentary and narrative, and support the FP&A Analysts as they identify trends for key KPIs, actuals, budgets and forecasts.
• Review variance analysis to prior periods and own the development of recommendations for leadership and finance business partners (FBP)
• Provide business partner support for strategic and ad-hoc projects
• Enhance data governance processes by improving the quality and integrity of data collected, analysis performed, and reports generated
• Run simulations of various "what-if" scenarios using insight and critical thinking to evaluate and recommend solutions
• Development of forecasting models
• Ownership of relevant manufacturing site information, including the classification, quantification, and forecasting of reliable, accurate, comparable, and timely data
• Complete forecasting and budget analysis to interpret, summarise and upload forecast information into financial systems, providing profit and loss information
• Produce routine and ad-hoc financial models to support leadership, FBPs and FP&A Group in decision-making
• Facilitate standardisation and sharing of best practice across the Shared Finance team
• Contribute to continuous improvement of systems and processes
• Support automation and enterprise consolidation of data used in monthly, quarterly, and annual performance reports
• Prepare / Review SOX controls and ensure compliance. Support all audit requests
• Line management responsibilities and provide ongoing career development support
• Hire, train, motivate, manage, and evaluate direct reports
• Set and facilitate the achievement of individual and department objectives

This is a full-time role, working Monday to Friday on site in Lowestoft.

What you'll need to succeed
You will be a fully qualified accountant and ideally have significant experience within a similar FMCG, manufacturing or production environment. You must have experience in a similar financial planning and forecasting capacity. You will have exposure to a range of tools and technology to support planning and, ideally, have a working knowledge of SAP. You will have strong leadership and interpersonal skills, will have a high level of resilience working in a challenging and fast-paced environment and strong attention to detail. You will have the ability to troubleshoot and solve problems as well as be able to create impactful reports for management.

What you'll get in return
You will receive a competitive salary package, up to 25% bonus, 25 days annual leave (plus BH) as well as a range of additional benefits.

What you need to do now

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