Group FP&A Manager, Engineering/Consultancy, Central London, c£80,000
 
Our client is a medium to large consultancy with multiple entities. They have been acquisitive and are currently experiencing change within the business which has led to an opening for a Group FP&A Manager. You will be working as part of a collaborative finance team with two offices in the UK. You will be sat in their new Central London office working closely with the Group FC and FD.
 
Key Responsibilities:
 
Budget and Forecasting

• End-to-end management of the budget and forecast cycles, including the scope, timelines and communication to Group businesses.
• Responsible for building and consolidating group budgets and quarterly re-forecasts including supplementary schedules.
• Undertake analytical review of the budget submissions to ensure they are appropriately challenged, working with finance leads and management to amend where necessary.
• Developing budget and forecast insights through KPI and trend analysis.
• Load final budget and re-forecasts

 
Liquidity Management

• Owner of the consolidated group cash flow and working capital forecast model.
• Supporting Group cash management and the new notional cash-pooling facility.

 
Power BI and Financial Modelling

• Further expand our Power BI environment as a key tool for reporting and insights across the group – use to drive reporting, commentary, presentations, divisional packs etc.
• Enhance existing Finance and HR dashboards and develop dashboards for project management and performance bench-marking.
• Determine the appropriate blend of reporting through excel, system reports and Power BI.
• Drive adoption of BI dashboards across the businesses.
• Development and management of incentives plans for senior leadership team.
• Support ad-hoc financial analysis requests.

ERP Champion

• Owner of shared system reports around the group ensuring they are maintained and continue to work effectively following any changes
• Support businesses in developing enhanced system reporting e.g. Management accounts straight out of the system. Sharing reports and best practice around the Group.
• Responsible for maintaining data integrity, working with the Head of ERP and Business leads to fix issues e.g. accuracy of blended rates within the system
• Ensure system work spaces are utilised and working across the Group.
• Supporting training on finance system.

Ongoing Reporting and Analysis
·         Responsible for producing the monthly flash reporting summary to show month end results.
·         Analysing performance across the Group on a monthly basis; identifying trends and KPIs.
    
·         Driving the adoption of automated management accounts to support Group businesses in developing their reporting.
·         Supporting the consolidations month end-reporting upload - explore opportunities to better automate the mapping file creation and linking it to finance system
    
·         Supporting the Group Financial Controller with month-end and year-end as required.
·         Ad hoc project support.
    
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