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.
Responsibilities:
- Produce annual business plans, budgets and forecasts
- 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