FP&A Lead

An opportunity has arisen for a highly progressive individual to join a leading business with a great culture as FP&A Lead. Central Herts.This newly created role is has been designed with succession planning in mind, and is the perfect opportunity for a driven recently qualified finance professional looking to carve out a career within a leading brand business offering genuine progression.Whilst reporting into the Head of Commercial Finance your Key deliverable and duties include:Playing the lead in the Budgeting and forecasting cycles across the group including the coordination of budgets, forecast and planning in line with the ongoing growth of the business.

• Lead the end-to-end annual budgeting process across the business functions.
• Delivery of forecasts vs the budget along with commentary.
• Setting and communicating the budget and forecast annual timetables, ensuring they are in line with business objectives.
• Co-ordinate multiple budget holders, ensuring consistency, accuracy and adherence to the timetable.
• Assign tasks to internal stakeholders (both Finance, Sales and Operational) to ensure completion of the budget/forecast.
• Ensure that robust models underpin revenue and cost budgets/forecasts. Continually seek to drive granularity and accuracy in those models to ensure that performance measurement can be understood.
• Challenge assumptions constructively and support evidence-based decision making.
• Co-ordinate, edit and present high-class presentations to update stakeholders on budget progress and to gain approval of budgets/forecasts through the process.
• Outline short- and long-term Risks and Opportunities.
• Developing and maintain robust internal budget and forecast controls, ensuring internal audit compliance and management of version control.
• Ownership of internal financial modelling tools, including access controls.
• Continuously look to improve budgeting, forecasting and reporting process.

The ideal candidate profile:

• CIMA or ACCA Qualification (Other relevant finance/accounting qualification)
• Thrives in collaborative environments, connect well with others and ability to build rapport.
• Experience in operational support to understand financial budgeting
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Excel and finance systems
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Exceptional relationship building skills with the ability to develop lasting partnering across the business.

On offer is a degree of Hybrid working, Bonus, and exceptional benefits.