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Our client is a market-leading manufacturer who is embarking on a finance transformation journey to strengthen financial reporting, improve operational efficiency, and enhance the quality of insights provided to the business. They are see king a highly analytical and technically capable FP&A Accountant to join the team on a minimum 12-month contract to drive improvements and transform our financial reporting and planning processes.

Your new role

Reporting to the CFO, you will focus on building automation, implementing modern reporting tools, and delivering accurate, actionable insights that drive better business decisions and playing a key role in moving the finance function away from manual, error-prone Excel processes toward a modern BI and system-driven environment. You will also lead the review and enhancement of underlying data structures to ensure the foundation for accurate and efficient analysis.

Key duties will include reviewing t he current month-end close process and identifying opportunities to reduce timelines, improve accuracy, standardise reporting and to understand reporting needs to be able to deliver meaningful insights and provide recommendations on process optimisation and system enhancements. You will lead the evaluation, selection and implementation of a Business Intelligence platform and review existing data structures and reporting processes to identify gaps, inconsistencies, and inefficiencies, as well as produce a set of accurate, insightful, and actionable financial reports on a monthly basis and perform variance analysis (actual vs. budget) and identify key business drivers.

What you'll need to succeed

The successful candidate will have s trong financial analysis, forecasting, and modelling skills and advanced Excel skills plus experience with BI tools. A knowledge of planning software is a strong advantage, as well as experience working with Sage X3 or similar ERP systems. You will have a solid understanding of financial statements and management reporting and a proven ability to translate financial data into clear business insights. Most importantly, you will be an analytical thinker who can translate complex data into actionable insights and visual reports and have excellent communication skills — able to explain financial insights to non-financial colleagues with a self drive to work independently and take ownership of transformation.

What you'll get in return

This is an excellent project with a broad brief. A full benefits package is on offer.

This role is a 12-month fixed-term contract that is anticipated to last longer than 12 months.

This role is 5 days a week in Witney.

What you need to do now

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