EMEA FINANCIAL PLANNING AND ANALYSIS MANAGER – Full smart working

EMEA FINANCIAL PLANNING AND ANALYSIS MANAGER – Full smart working

EMEA Finance Planning and Analysis Manager

The Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Manager is an integral role in the Components EMEA Finance team.

This is an exciting business partnering role, with responsibilities spanning Regional FP&A across 19 sites covering Europe, Africa, and the Middle East; and leading 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 and being a leader of continuous improvement in the reporting and analysis processes.

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 Roll out

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.