Head of Fp&a

Our client is a growing multisite retailer with 220 stores, £270m turnover and 7000 staff. Reporting to the CEO, the Head of FP&A will lead all FP&A activities for the Group and work closely with the Head of Marketing, Group Finance Controller and OperationsDirectors. They will be responsible for the FP&A duties of financial planning, budgeting and forecasting as well as financial modelling for potential investment opportunities and commercial / sales analysis. The FP&A team is responsible for analysing salesand margin and inspecting and predicting future performance of the company. This includes forecasting future revenues and expenditures, as well as modelling capital structure and budgeting. You will be responsible for keeping track of the Group’s financialplan. Analysing the Group’s performance, alongside changes and market trends, not only creating forecasts, but also calculating variances between those forecasts and actuals. It will be your remit to track down and explain the causes of those variances.

**Responsibilities**:

- Lead, manage and develop the Data Analyst team of 2
- Analyse financial data - and create financial models for decision support
- Manage the quality of budgeting and reforecasting across all sites through supporting key stakeholders in these activities and providing an expert review of the documentation produced with regards to their content and validity.
- Ensure that all budgeting and forecasting activities are undertaken in an accurate and consistent manner across all regions through developing and communicating a robust budgeting and reforecasting process that can be used across the group.
- Liaise with regional and functional heads and other senior management to rigorously challenge and question their planned assumptions and actual performance on an on-going basis.
- Ensure the FP&A team are continually supporting the business and delivering reports that are valued and offer good commercial guidance
- Rolling forecasts, including the managing of a diverse range of inputs, identifying risks & opportunities, providing insight and commentary as required.
- Develop, measure and track meaningful KPIs, with a focus on value creation.
- Develop and build the Group forecast long term model, integrated P&L, balance sheet and cashflow. Maintain and update the model as necessary to integrate recently acquired or opened stores, produce scenario analysis and provide a platform for financialanalysis of future acquisitions or openings.
- Enhance data integrity and reporting controls to enable agile scenario reporting and analysis
- Report on financial performance and prepare for regular leadership reviews
- Work closely with the accounting team to ensure accurate financial reporting and decision support
- Perform monthly balance sheet, income statement and changes in financial position/budget variance analysis
- Investigate and report to the CEO any inconsistencies or improprieties.
- Guide cost analysis process by establishing and enforcing policies and procedures
- Provide analysis of trends and forecasts and recommend actions for optimisation
- Provide analytical support for the business across all business functions and ad hoc analytical support to senior management
- Ad-hoc finance support on special projects as required by the business.

A salary of £120,000-£160,000 is on offer plus benefits