FP&A Lead

FP&A Lead | 6-month contract | £80k to £85k | September start

We are partnering with a consumer goods business to recruit an Interim FP&A Lead for an initial six-month contract. This is a high-impact role for an experienced FP&A professional who is comfortable operating in a fast-paced start-up environment. The successful candidate will take ownership of the company-wide annual budgeting process and provide the financial insight required to support growth and improve performance. Experience working within an inventory-led business is essential. This could include retail, consumer goods, e-commerce, manufacturing, wholesale or distribution.

Key Responsibilities

• Financial planning and budgeting - own the annual budgeting process and quarterly re-forecasting cycle end-to-end: coordinating inputs from across the business and producing consolidated plans that are grounded in commercial reality.
• Management reporting - work closely with the Financial Controller to understand actual performance and build a feedback loop that helps to improve our forecasts.
• Commercial analysis - be the go-to person for deep-dive commercial analysis: from channel profitability and customer economics to new market or product launch modelling.
• KPI framework - own and develop our KPI framework, working cross-functionally to ensure financial and operational metrics are well-defined, consistently reported and genuinely used. You'll champion the single source of truth.
• Long-range planning - maintain the long-range financial model, supporting fundraising processes, strategic planning and scenario analysis as the business evolves.
• Business partnering - be embedded with the growth and retail teams, helping them understand the financial impact of their decisions, manage their budgets and identify opportunities to drive growth and efficiency.
• Finance transformation - work closely with the Financial Controller and the Data Lead to connect FP&A to the core financial data, improving the speed, accuracy and automation of our planning and reporting processes.

Candidate Profile

• ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified
• Demonstrable experience owning and delivering a company-wide annual budget process.
• Highly organised, with exceptional attention to detail.
• Commercially sharp with the ability to connect the financial dots to the business drivers and communicate them in a way that lands with non-finance stakeholders.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and energised by a fast-moving environment.
• Experience in a business trading internationally would be advantageous.

If this is something of interest, please reach out to Anya Keinzley on the attached details.