Your new company

Our client is a highly successful business services group based in Oxfordshire.

Your new role

As FP&A Manager, you will lead a team of 3 and manage all elements of performance metrics and analysis, including designing, implementing, and maintaining a comprehensive, balanced scorecard framework to measure and manage performance across various dimensions, including financial, client impact, growth and culture and across different levels. You will conduct regular analysis of performance data to identify trends, opportunities, and areas for improvement and provide actionable insights and recommendations from this analysis to senior leadership. Business Partnering and communication are important elements of this role, including partnering with Head Office functions, including owning of the overhead budgeting process, working proactively with senior stakeholders to ensure accurate forecasting, clear understanding of budget variances, and the consistent application of a value-for-money approach. You will be able to co nstruct clear, balanced, and factual narratives about the current level of performance as well as the direction of travel and work with our internal communications team to ensure regular distribution and understanding of our performance level out into the wider business.

Team leadership and development are essential skills as you will lead and mentor a team, providing guidance and support to ensure high-quality work and professional
Development. Company BI reports and Data Integrity are a must as you will be responsible for the Key Business Reports (KBRs), ensuring that they are functioning correctly and are constantly available to stakeholders across the whole company as well as ensuring the integrity of data across multiple platforms and databases.

What you'll need to succeed

The successful candidate will be a qualified accountant with strong team management experience, good communication skills and a passion for “things being right”, be adaptable, and have a genuine interest and understanding in IT systems and associated data accuracy and completeness. You must be articulate and able to deliver messages clearly whilst navigating the nuances that might exist within key points to ensure they land correctly with stakeholders as well as highly numerate and possess technical accounting understanding. Strong IT skills are essential, in particular advanced Excel, and some level of competency in Access, SQL, Power Automate and PowerBI – along with a strong curiosity in AI development.

What you'll get in return

The prospects for career and personal development in this role are exceptional. As the business continues to grow, through a historically effective organic recruitment model and in addition to our recent acquisitions and commitment to international expansion, you will see every function of the business creates significant opportunities for those with the right capabilities and attitudes.

What you need to do now

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