We have a great opportunity to join a fun and forward-thinking Finance team as Head of Financial Planning & Analysis .
Reporting into the CFO, you will own forecasting and management reporting for senior management, the board and lenders, with a strong focus on cash, lender covenant compliance and providing automated and real time MI.
You will have 1-2 direct reports at mid-senior level.
In this role, you will also act as business partner to C-level cost functions, provide strategic leadership to group treasury, and support on M&A.
This role is hybrid , with a preference that you will be in our Abingdon office at least one day a week, occasionally more frequently for specific requirements.
Responsibilities: Own the long range 3-statement forecast model, updating this on monthly basis to provide the senior management and board with rolling forecasts.
Scope opportunities to automate this in Workday planning tool.
Lead the budget and rolling re-forecast processes, ensuring these are accurately captured in Workday and presented in a clear and concise manner to senior management and board.
Manage lender reporting and covenant compliance and be vigilant to risks and opportunities to forecast which may impact future cash position.
Provide automated and insightful monthly management and board reporting, with the focus on business performance and outlook, and any cash consequences of this.
This will leverage tools including PowerBI and WorkDay.
Act as business partner to the C-level leaders of technology, product, marketing, finance and legal.
This will involve monthly cost reporting with analysis on variances to budget and prior periods and supporting them with forecasting and ad hoc requests.
Work closely with investor on M&A assessment, and heavily support preparation and execution of exit event.
Build strong relationships with both internal and external customers and stakeholders, including other finance and support functions, commercial leaders, investor and lenders.
About You You will be ACA/CIMA/ACCA-qualified with significant FP&A experience, looking to work in an SME environment with a strong degree of autonomy, and the ability to operate at pace and balance competing priorities.
With a curious mindset, you will be confident to challenge and grow both yourself and the company.
Superb attention to detail along with the ability to craft and present a compelling narrative to senior leaders and the board is a must.
You will have an intricate understanding of 3 statement financial forecasts and extensive experience modelling these, including both direct and indirect cashflow.
Experience of working in a PE-backed or similar environment where cash visibility is critical, and experience of a multi-jurisdictional environment and associated finance issues including intercompany, FX, transfer pricing etc is required.
You will have Advanced SQL, M Query, DAX and PowerBI, and experience with Workday or a comparable planning tool.
About Us The finance function has 25 team members located in Abingdon, Madrid and Latin America and is responsible for accounting, tax, group reporting, FP&A, commercial finance, finance systems, treasury, payroll, AP and AR.
Please apply if you'd like to work for a global company that is helping make the working world more sustainable, safer, cleaner and fairer, with great colleagues and a good pay and benefits package.
We welcome applications from armed forces veterans, reservists and their families.
We are committed to equity, diversity and inclusion in our practices and workforce.
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