Group FP&A Manager

London, England, United Kingdom

11/8/2024

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FP&A Manager

The Role

Reporting directly to the Group Director of FP&A, the ideal candidate for this position should be highly motivated and comfortable thriving in a fast-paced, evolving environment where finance reporting to diverse stakeholders is a constant demand.

As a FP&A manager, you will play a critical role in providing financial insights and support to key business leaders and stakeholders. This position will be responsible for Management Information, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, financial modelling, and supporting strategic decision-making across the organisation.

The ideal candidate should have strong analytical skills, a deep understanding of financial principles, and the ability to communicate financial insights to non-financial stakeholders.

Experience within a dynamic, acquisitive business is essential, along with robust reporting and analytical capabilities. The ability to effectively engage with existing and prospective debt and equity stakeholders, drive enhancements in Group reporting, and offer valuable insights into financial performance are crucial.

This role presents an exciting and fulfilling career trajectory with clear advancement opportunities across the UK and Europe.

Responsibilities

The FP&A Manager oversees the budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis processes. This involves the delivery of the following:

Budgeting And Forecasting

• Annual budgets, quarterly forecasts and long-term plans.
• Work with the Divisions heads to lead the Finance planning process, including annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting process, and long-term plans.
• Co-ordinate and liaise with the Divisional Heads of Finance (UK and Europe) to gather forecasting data and reporting and discuss any business led KPIs.
• Prepare Group budget and forecasting data including presentations for stakeholders with insight and commentary.
  
  

Financial Analysis And Reporting

• Monthly and quarterly management information (MI), strategic report within the annual reports and accounts, acquisition related reporting and deliverables, expense allocation reporting.
• Responsible for the Group management reporting pack, including all data input, accuracy and overlaying recent acquisitions along with liaising with various finance areas to receive timely information, and work to a strict working day timetable to deliver income, P&L and full Management pack reporting to internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop and innovate the group management reporting pack driving continuous improvement as required by stakeholders.
• Analyse and provide insight into financial performance across the group on key P&L, balance sheet and cash flow movements.
• Aid the integration of new acquisitions into the Group reporting pack including prior year insight (LTM adjustments), aligning revenue recognition and consistent reporting.
• Drive high level Group Financial KPI analysis to aid insight into performance. Build out central MI capability.
• Work with the expenses team on expense reporting, benchmarking and exceptional cost analysis for the Group.
  
  

External Reporting

• Reports required by the PIB Board, Investor Relations reporting, Press Releases [Trading updates], data analysis required by external consultants.
  
  

Ad-hoc Requests

• Ad-hoc requests for reporting from external third-parties and owners’ of PIB Group.
  
  

Financial Systems

• Management of the OneStream reporting [MI, Statutory, Treasury, Non-Financial KPIs] to ensure system provides adequate reports for data analysis
  
  

The FP&A Manager is responsible for successfully collaborating with departments across the Group to deliver the above key responsibilities.

Experience

• Professional qualifications in accounting (ACCA/CIMA/ICAEW etc.)
• 5+ years of FP&A experience with 2+ years in a manager role.
• Financial analysis, accounting, or a related field, preferably in the insurance broking industry.
• Strong analytical and data analysis skills.
• Proficiency in Excel, financial modelling and use of financial systems such as OneStream and NetSuite.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and meet tight deadlines.
• Detail-oriented and highly organised.
  
  

Further information

As well as a competitive salary we offer the following benefits -

• Competitive holiday allowance with the annual option to buy additional days
• Death in Service benefit of x4 salary
• Company pension scheme
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave packages
• A flexible benefits package which allows you to add additional benefits to your overall package
• Our benefits portal offers discounts on technology & electronics, cinemas, restaurants, days out, mortgage advice, travel and many more
• Referral schemes
• Discounted rates on PIB products
• We offer a first-class employee benefits and welfare package to support our employees with financial management, cycle to work scheme, counselling support, health screening, will writing, menopause support, books, stopping smoking and much more
• If supporting the local community, engaging with charities and having the opportunity to ‘give something back’ interests you, you have the opportunity to take an extra day to support this with a Volunteering day.
• We also offer a wide range of discounts including a kids pass – giving you discount to over 4500 attractions and activities, discounts at hairdressers and beauticians, climate change projects with lots of other options to choose
• PIB has a comprehensive learning & development framework, including professional study options and apprenticeships which are available to all employees, and which will support your career development
• Being a part of our PIB Community Trust, we support fundraising where you can apply for grants from PIB Group towards your chosen charity
• PIB Group are committed to improving their environmental impact in a responsible way. From the individual actions that our colleagues take every day through to installing the right facilities across our premises, there are many measures in place to help reduce PIB’s carbon footprint.
  
  

We are proud of our success and growth and have been recognised for many industry awards across our business. If you wish to work for a company that truly puts people at the heart of their organisation, then we would love to hear from you. PIB operates a flexible working policy, and our management teams will talk to you about how that would meet both your flexible working needs and those of the business and role you are applying for. We would love to hear from you if you want to hear more about opportunities in PIB.

We are an equal opportunities employer, committed to hiring a diverse and inclusive workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, gender, religion, disability, age, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.

Department

PIB Group

Contract type

Permanent

Hours

35

Salary

Competitive