This is a rare opportunity for a fully qualified finance professional who wants to own the budgeting and forecasting cycle end-to-end. You'll be the go-to person for building financial models, driving the annual budget, producing monthly reforecasts, and delivering insightful variance analysis that helps the leadership team make better commercial decisions.
Key Responsibilities
Lead the annual budgeting process - own the timetable, templates, consolidation, and challenge sessions with budget holders across the business.
Drive monthly and quarterly reforecasting cycles - build and maintain the assumptions, update the models, and produce clear variance commentary.
Build and maintain robust financial models - including scenario analysis, sensitivity testing, and investment appraisals to support strategic decisions.
Produce high-quality management reporting - monthly board packs, KPI dashboards, and performance commentary that highlights trends, risks, and opportunities.
Partner with operational stakeholders - work closely with sales, operations, and senior leadership to understand business drivers and translate them into financial insight.
Support cash flow forecasting and working capital analysis - ensure liquidity planning is accurate and timely.
Identify opportunities to enhance processes and reporting - improve the quality, speed, and automation of FP&A outputs.You will have:
We're looking for a fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA)
Experience in FP&A or commercial finance
Proven ownership of end-to-end budgeting and forecasting cycles (not just contribution).
Advanced Excel skills with strong financial modelling capability - you build the models yourself.
Strong Power BI experience
Excellent analytical skills with the ability to turn complex data into clear, actionable insight.
Strong stakeholder management - comfortable challenging and influencing senior leaders.
A hands-on, proactive approach - this is a doing role, not a people-management position
Salary description
£75000.00 - £80000.00 per year