Your new company
Your new company are a leader in their field and are looking for an FP&A Manager to join their team on a permanent basis due to internal promotion.
Your new role
This role provides commercial and analytical finance support across a portfolio of operational locations within the division. The position plays a central role in shaping decision‑making by combining financial rigour with operational understanding, partnering closely with on‑site teams to improve performance and profitability.The successful candidate will bring a proactive, questioning mindset and a strong focus on outcomes - using financial insight to challenge thinking, inform strategy, and drive continuous improvement.
Core accountabilities:
Own the delivery of period-end performance reviews, forward-looking forecasts, and annual planning cycles, ensuring outputs are accurate, well-explained, and decision‑useful.
Convert financial results into clear commercial commentary, helping operational teams understand what is driving performance and where attention needs to be focused.
Work hand-in-hand with manufacturing, supply chain, and operations leaders to interrogate cost behaviour, identify inefficiencies, and support margin enhancement initiatives.
Build and evolve decision-support models to evaluate business scenarios, including volume changes, pricing actions, investment proposals, and operational trade-offs.
Lead in-depth performance vs. plan analysis, highlighting emerging risks and opportunities, and recommending tangible actions rather than simply reporting variance.
Design, refine, and embed management information and KPI frameworks that give leadership better visibility over operational drivers such as productivity, unit economics, and inventory health.
Act as a finance translator across the business - bridging the gap between numbers and operations by presenting insights in a way that resonates with non‑finance stakeholders.
What you'll need to succeed
Fully qualified ACCA/ CIMA/ ACA
Previous experience working in a manufacturing environment required
Curious, analytical, and confident challenging numbers
Able to tell the story behind the data
Comfortable working in a less structured, manual environment
Strong stakeholder management and variance costing knowledge
Modelling and strong Excel skill set
Solid knowledge and understanding of P&L, balance sheet, cashflow and how these are driven
Cost accounting knowledge
What you'll get in return
c.£75,000 DOE
Remote working - offices available to work from if required in Derby, London etc.
10% discretionary bonus
Car allowance
25 days holiday + bank holidays
Company pension scheme
Health care cash plan
Discount platform
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