The Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Manager is an integral role in the Essentra Components EMEA Finance team.
This is an exciting business partnering role, with responsibilities spanning (i) Regional FP&A across 19 sites covering Europe, Africa, and the Middle East; and (ii) Lead finance integration of acquisition targets and other strategic projects. The business welcomes energetic and hands-on candidates, looking to deliver outstanding results.
The role is responsible for insightful analysis to cross-functional business partners, managing the annual Plan, semesterly re-forecasting processes, latest view forecasting, evaluating and integrating acquisitions as well as line managing FP&A/business analysts. In addition, this role is pivotal in analysing an extensive amount of data to deliver strategic insight as well as being a leader of continuous improvement in the reporting and analysis processes.
Responsibilities:
Reporting and Analysis
1. Analyse, challenge and interpret the month-end results to provide detailed analysis and insight into variances in sales, margin, overhead, and working capital.
2. Produce bridging and commentary between Actuals, Budgets, and Forecasts. Understand and explain the causes for large variances, provide documented commentary and challenge the variances with the sites.
3. Help steer the messaging and content of the month-end reporting pack to ensure the correct insights and actions are communicated to management.
4. Lead analysis of all areas of the P&L to identify opportunities and propose actions to improve profitability in the Region.
5. Develop value-adding reporting and review processes and procedures to ensure efficiency and timeliness of information and deliver additional insight.
6. Leverage new data analytics tools to provide insightful analysis from which business decisions can be taken.
7. Own the Capex control & reporting process to identify spending risks and ensure expected efficiencies are delivered.
Forecasting & Planning
1. Deliver the annual budgeting and quarterly forecast process for the Region to ensure a rigorous, insightful output.
2. Drive the forecast and annual budget process with the sites to ensure numbers are pressure tested for both commercial and financial integrity.
3. Put in place incremental processes to improve forecast accuracy over short, medium, and long-range periods.
4. Establish continuous improvement processes to drive a best-in-class regional FP&A function.
Region Business Partnering
1. Provide challenge and guidance from a Finance perspective to commercial, supply chain, and operations leads.
2. Support investment appraisals within the sites and offer guidance where required, as well as helping to identify and track benefits arising from investment opportunities.
3. Develop financial models and analyses to support strategic initiatives; be the finance lead on key projects in the Region.
4. Support the AMERS business, providing analysis, challenge, and commercial support to improve business performance and aid decision-making.
5. Track and manage profit enhancement plans to ensure delivery of gross margin and operating profit targets.
6. Identify opportunities for improvement and ensure they are driven through to completion.
7. Analyse and develop tools mining useful information from an extensive data set.
8. Provide critical review of reporting processes and drive improvements.
Internal Control
1. Participate in the yearly independent balance sheet and control files review.
Business Partnering ERP Rollout
1. Support Dynamics 365 implementation from an FP&A perspective.
Team Management
1. Responsible for a team of 2 FP&A focused individuals.
2. Manage performance, coach and mentor the team and address any poor performance/provide recognition where appropriate.
3. Give appropriate & timely feedback to assist the team in decision-making and taking accountability for their work.
Required Qualifications, Skills, and Experience:
* CIMA, ACA, ACCA or other technical accounting qualification.
* Proven experience in financial planning, analysis, and leadership roles.
* Experience of working in fast-paced, dynamic environments.
* Ability to work with non-financial stakeholders to provide value-adding financial support, challenge, and analysis.
* Experience of working with stakeholders of differing levels of seniority.
* Experience in an environment recognized for driving continuous improvement and operational excellence.
* Comfortable using numerous accounting packages with a good understanding of systems and ability to understand and analyze data quickly.
* Excellent PowerPoint and presenting skills, comfortable presenting to, and receiving challenge from, senior management.
* Advanced Excel skills to enable manipulation of multiple data sources to deliver detailed analytics.
* Experience in managing and developing a team.
* Good knowledge of Power BI.
* Experience in manufacturing finance (desirable).
* Knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics F&O (desirable).
* Excellent level of English both oral and written.
What we offer:
* Private Medical Insurance.
* Discretionary Annual Bonus.
* Up to 5% matched pension contribution.
* 4x annual salary life assurance.
* 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
* Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme.
* Employee discounts through Edenred.
* Cycle to work scheme.
* Employee Assistance Programme.
This is a hybrid role with the expectation of working in our Kidlington office 2-3 days per week.
Essentra plc is a FTSE 250 company and a leading global provider of essential components and solutions, focusing on the manufacture and distribution of plastic injection moulded, vinyl dip moulded, and metal items.
Headquartered in the UK, Essentra's global network extends to 28 countries worldwide and includes over 3,000 employees, 14 manufacturing facilities, 24 distribution centres, and 33 sales & service centres serving c.74,000 customers with a rapid supply of low-cost but essential products for a variety of applications in industries such as equipment manufacturing, automotive, fabrication, electronics, medical, and renewable energy.
At Essentra, we are ideally looking for individuals who enjoy working as part of a close team, are passionate about what they do, and who strive to make a difference. We are always looking to better ourselves and are keen to recruit individuals who like to innovate and improve processes.
As part of our recruitment process, you will be required to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. Documentary evidence will be requested at the interview.
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