Head of FP&A

I am delighted to be supporting an award-winning business seeking to recruit a Head of FP&A to join their growing team based in Suffolk in a key role to manage and develop budgeting, forecasting and business planning processes, and develop and maintain processes to deliver valuable insight and analysis on key areas of business performance.

Key responsibilities include:

Line Management

Team management with responsibility for their output:

- Encouragement, mentoring and guidance throughout the team, to share best practice and aligned working.

- Support and monitoring of study progress, where applicable.

- Engagement in and facilitation of Team Building and Volunteering initiatives / sessions within the Team.

Month End Reporting

Support the month end process, to include:

- Preparation of reporting data to flow into the group management accounts and Budget Committee pack.

- Review and comparison to budget and expectation of actual performance, both in the month and year to date

- Production of monthly financial performance packs to present to budget holders and other key internal stakeholders.

- Approval of journals raised by direct reports.

- Ownership of ICR process and sections of relevant SOX control.

Budgeting, Forecasting and Business Planning

Deliver the annual budgeting and business plan update process, including:

- Delivery of group balance sheet model, group budget submission, and annual business valuation model process.

- Planning and delivering the process to an agreed timetable

- Agreeing key inputs and assumptions

- Supporting budget holders and budget process owners through the process to ensure completeness and consistency.

- Delivering insight and analysis of budgets and business plans to ensure long-term trends are identified and communicated to stakeholders.

Insight & Analysis

Deliver processes to provide insight and analysis regarding key areas of business performance including:

- Monitoring KPIs, understanding any deviations from expectation and, where required, engaging other members of the Finance team and wider business, in identifying and implementing remedial actions.

- Supporting business engagement to ensure maximum value from business unit / department level relationships.

- Gathering information from the business as required, to provide to the Commercial finance / Corporate finance teams, to enhance the accuracy of reporting and to feed into models.

- Support monthly internal review procedures to enhance understanding of business performance, including development of material and agenda for monthly Budget Committee meetings.

Systems Development

Support IT teams, project teams and external consultants as required to ensure integrity, development, and enhancement of financial accounting, reporting, and planning systems.

The successful candidate will be CIMA / ACCA / ACA qualified with experience of management accounting / business partnering and a proven track record in delivering results on time, and in building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders. Plus, a competent user of excel with experience of reviewing and interpreting spreadsheets, and a strong communicator.

This role offers an excellent salary, benefits and bonus package.