Job Description
Blair West are delighted to be supporting Rust-Oleum Group with the appointment of a FP&A Manager for their UK businesses. Rust-Oleum manufactures innovative paints and coatings for both professional users and consumers and is home to some of Europe’s best-known specialist paint and cleaning brands including The Pink Stuff & Frenchic.
This is a new role, reporting directly into a highly impressive, new EMEA CFO, with the remit of strengthening analytical capability, improve financial insight, and create stronger alignment between finance, commercial, and manufacturing operations.
The successful candidate will play a key role in shaping the future of the FP&A function, with the opportunity to build and develop a team. Working closely with both commercial and manufacturing teams, the FP&A Manager will provide actionable financial insight, support business performance, and drive stronger operational decision-making across the organisation.
The ideal candidate will be a commercially minded finance professional with strong experience leading budgeting and forecasting processes within a multi-site environment, ideally with a background in consumer goods or chemicals.
The opportunity:
* Support month-end reporting activities, including sales flash reporting, preliminary results, and consolidated financial analysis across the UK business, with clear commentary on balance sheet, P&L, and margin performance.
* Lead budgeting and forecasting processes by preparing and consolidating financial plans, while providing insightful analysis and commentary on business performance and key financial drivers.
* Develop, maintain, and enhance financial planning models to improve understanding of profitability, cash flow, and key operational and commercial metrics across the business.
* Partner closely with sales and marketing teams to support revenue growth and margin expansion through forecasting, pricing analysis, and customer and product profitability insight.
* Provide financial analysis and decision support for commercial initiatives, including new product launches, strategic projects, and growth opportunities.
* Work collaboratively with manufacturing and operations teams to manage costs, productivity, and efficiency through robust forecasting, variance analysis, and performance tracking.
* Analyse manufacturing cost structures, inventory performance, and productivity initiatives, driving actions to achieve operational and budget targets.
* Deliver insightful reporting, KPIs, dashboards, and forward-looking analysis to respective leadership teams to support strategic decision-making.
* Prepare monthly Board presentation materials, providing clear analysis of historical performance, future projections, and key market trends.
* Drive improvements in reporting systems and data integrity by supporting the rollout of standardised, system-driven reporting solutions, including acting as a Power BI super user.
* Supporting with adhoc strategic projects, including M&A activity.
You’ll be the ideal candidate for this role if you have:
* Relevant post qualification experience (ACA, ACCA or CIMA).
* Strong analytical skills across financial and non-financial information and able to provide valuable insight.
* A track record in a fast paced, international environment with multi-site operations would be favourable.
* Strong financial modelling skills.
* A background from a relatable sector (chemicals / consumer goods / B2B or B2C) would be preferred but not a pre-requisite.
* Familiarity with mergers & acquisitions is a plus.
* Excellent communication and influencing skills.
* Ability to proactively manage a varied workload.
* Hands-on (the role will evolve to a managerial remit in time, but will be stand-alone initially)
* Advancer user of IT systems & tools.
Benefits:
* Flexible, hybrid working arrangements.
* 25 days annual leave plus public holidays.
* Bonus scheme.
* Life assurance.
* Private healthcare.
Our Commitments:
Blair West is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and inclusion at every stage of the recruitment process. We are committed to fairness, equality, and ongoing diversity training for our team to give our candidates and clients a feeling of belonging during their experience with us. If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during their experience with us, please speak to their consultant.