Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

This retail brand in central london is looking for a a Finance Manager for Planning and Analysis

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis you will coordinate and produce the business plan financials, annual budget, monthly forecasts, monthly board and other monthly management information. You will also provide input into papers for the Board. You will lead a team that provides a hub of modelling and financial planning and analysis expertise to support the wider Finance team. 

Desired Skills & Experience
The ideal candidate for this role will:
- be a qualified accountant with extensive PQE working in a commercial finance environment
- have experience of working in a finance team within a large company, ideally a large FMCG or Retailer
- have excellent stakeholder management skills
- be an experienced people manager
- be an experienced modeller ideally with experience of Hyperian or SAP

Job Requirements

Retail industry and an excellent understanding of financial drivers of Retail business.
Excellent accountant with capability to understand both commercial business needs and technical accounting
accounting concepts.
Qualifications:
Qualified accountant, with circa 6 years PQE
Could be ACA, CIMA or ACCA
Could have MBA
This would suit someone who:
- Enjoys building and seeing the broader financial picture of a company
- Explains technical finance information in simple and interesting way
- Enjoys considering the end to end financial implications of business plans
- Draws out financial and business insights from financial plans
- Enjoys modelling