About the role
- Own the annual operating plan, a rolling 12-month forecast, and driver-based models and business plans built on volumes, pricing, bill-of-material cost and headcount, not last year plus a percentage.
- Own the monthly pack for both entities and the consolidation, covering P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, KPIs and cost centres.
- Prepare sales and cost performance reporting, delivered to a fixed working day.
- Build and maintain CEO, CFO, functional-head and investor dashboards.
- Ensure one definition per metric, with controls that prove the numbers tie.
- Own the cash position statement and short-term cash forecast.
- Track receivables and payables ageing and collections, inventory ageing, DSO / DIO / DPO.
- Manage treasury and investment valuation summaries, along with the overall liquidity and runway view.
- Perform budget vs actual, forecast vs actual, month-on-month and year-on-year analysis.
- Decompose variances into volume, rate and mix.
- Provide the cause, impact and recommended action — not just the number.
- Analyse profitability by product, segment, customer and geography.
- Build cost structures from bill of material to commissioning.
- Provide deal-level margin support.
- Develop capital-expenditure and make-versus-buy business cases.
- Support the financial sections of the board pack and investor MIS.
- Build the models, scenarios and diligence data required for a fundraise.
- Conduct market sizing and demand analysis.
- Track competitors and perform benchmarking that informs business planning and pricing decisions.
- Drive working capital as an agenda, not just a report.
- Own a tracked improvement programme with named owners across sales, supply chain and procurement.
- Move the reporting cycle from assembly to analysis.
- Use Power Query, a single mapped data layer, and clear documentation so that the reporting process can be independently run by anyone on the team the following month.
- 5 years in FP&A, business finance, management reporting or corporate finance, including an audit or advisory background with a deliberate move into analysis.
- Personally owned a monthly reporting pack for at least twelve consecutive cycles.
- Built a budget or forecast from drivers, not from last year plus a percentage.
- Written variance commentary that senior management acted on.
- Worked directly from a trial balance or an ERP extract, not only from clean data handed over to you.
- Strong advanced Excel and financial modelling skills.
- Power Query, Power BI or SQL is a strong plus.
- Have the instinct to say “this does not tie” before a pack goes out — and hold that line.
- Recurring ownership of receivables, payables and cash reporting.
- Experience in treasury or investment reporting.
- Multi-entity consolidation and multi-currency experience.
- Experience in manufacturing, hardware or supply-chain-intensive industries.
- Experience with market sizing or competitive benchmarking for a management audience.