An opportunity has arisen for a highly progressive individual to join a leading business with a great culture as FP&A Lead. Central Herts. This newly created role is has been designed with succession planning in mind, and is the perfect opportunity for a driven recently qualified finance professional looking to carve out a career within a leading brand business offering genuine progression. Whilst reporting into the Head of Commercial Finance your Key deliverable and duties include: Playing the lead in the Budgeting and forecasting cycles across the group including the coordination of budgets, forecast and planning in line with the ongoing growth of the business. Lead the end-to-end annual budgeting process across the business functions.Delivery of forecasts vs the budget along with commentary.Setting and communicating the budget and forecast annual timetables, ensuring they are in line with business objectives.Co-ordinate multiple budget holders, ensuring consistency, accuracy and adherence to the timetable.Assign tasks to internal stakeholders (both Finance, Sales and Operational) to ensure completion of the budget/forecast.Ensure that robust models underpin revenue and cost budgets/forecasts. Continually seek to drive granularity and accuracy in those models to ensure that performance measurement can be understood.Challenge assumptions constructively and support evidence-based decision making.Co-ordinate, edit and present high-class presentations to update stakeholders on budget progress and to gain approval of budgets/forecasts through the process.Outline short- and long-term Risks and Opportunities.Developing and maintain robust internal budget and forecast controls, ensuring internal audit compliance and management of version control.Ownership of internal financial modelling tools, including access controls.Continuously look to improve budgeting, forecasting and reporting process. The ideal candidate profile: CIMA or ACCA Qualification (Other relevant finance/accounting qualification)Thrives in collaborative environments, connect well with others and ability to build rapport.Experience in operational support to understand financial budgetingExcellent knowledge of Microsoft Excel and finance systemsHigh level of accuracy and attention to detailExceptional relationship building skills with the ability to develop lasting partnering across the business. On offer is a degree of Hybrid working, Bonus, and exceptional benefits.