Financial Planning & Analysis Manager (FP&A)

As Financial Planning & Analysis Manager (FP&A), you will be responsible for performing budgeting, forecasting, and analysis that supports major corporate decisions.

Must have:
1) Strong command of the English language (communications)
2) Experience in the food & beverage or retail industry.

The Successful FP&A Manager role will involve:

- Presents detailed monthly financial reports to managers.
- Creates variance analysis reports and financial models.
- Leads real-time financial performance monitoring.
- Escalates any financial issues to management.
- Sets and tracks key performance indicators (KPIs) and objectives.
- Completes market research and comparable company analysis.
- Recommends strategies for increasing financial performance.
- Uses popular financial planning and analysis software.
• Developing own models and, where appropriate, improving existing models.
• Weekly cash flow forecast, creating pricing analysis, product analysis
• Ownership of Budget & Reforecast process.
• Ownership of daily/weekly restaurant reporting
• Key P&L analysis including Sales/GP/Staff costs analysis – PDR utilization, restaurant capacity analysis, spend per head, theoretical v actual gross margin variances, staff cost optimisation and site by site comparisons.

As FP&A Manager you will have the following skills and experience:

• Experience within a multi-site operation in the food & beverage (Coffee & Tea) or Retail/hospitality industry
• Advanced Excel experience
• Comfortable with Pivot Tables, VlookUps, Index/Match, SumIfs, Charts, Conditional Formatting, Data Validation & Data Visualization.
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Personable and able to work alongside restaurant managers and head chefs to produce budgets and forecasts and generally analyze.
• A recognized accountancy qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA).
• Experience of Procure Wizard/Fourth People System would be advantageous.
• Experience in Power Query, Macros, Visual Basic – advantageous