Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

Description:

Hutcheon Mearns are delighted to be recruiting, on an exclusive basis, for a Financial Planning & Analysis Manager. This is a key senior finance role within a dynamic, growing business, requiring a high calibre individual.

Reporting to the FP&A Director, the FP&A Manager will support the EMEA Region of this manufacturing group, partnering with the senior leadership team. The ideal candidate will have experience in manufacturing with a blend of business partnering, strategic thinking and commercial insight as well as accounting, costing and data analysis skills.

Duties will be varied including:

• Financial analysis to drive business growth and margin expansion.
• Supporting the group planning cycles for full financials including Strategic 3-year plan, Annual Operating Plan, monthly and weekly forecasting for the EMEA region.
• Review and analyse month end results, compare to Budget, Forecast, and previous year.
• Discuss variances and trends with regional site controllers.
• Coordinate development and maintenance of consistent reporting tools to build, monitor, report, and communicate operational and financial metrics.
• Scenario planning and modelling as required.
• Continually seek to identify ways to simplify and or automate financial processes and
• reporting, with particular focus on driving Power BI data opportunities.
• Ensure all systems available are used most effectively by the team.
• Proactively drive improvements in the forecast process,