Marc Daniels are urgently recruiting for an FP&A Analyst for a household name automotive company based in Bracknell for a 9-month interim contract.

This role will be right for you if you are a qualified accountant with strong budgeting and forecasting experience.

This role features hybrid-working and flexible hours and 35-hour work week.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate to ensure accuracy of period-end financial closings for Head Office by providing business expertise and commercial knowledge, before supporting Department manager in review and analysis of final output.
• Work with wider Finance team to ensure data quality supports accurate analysis.
• Ensure key business performance risks, issues and opportunities are highlighted, interpreting financial results to enable the business to make key decisions and achieve targets.
• Work with Business Operations, so that root causes of issues are fully understood, and recommendations proposed to improve performance and control.
• Contribute to a limited number of SOx controls that relate to analysis and reporting.
• Working to coordinate the budgeting process for the European region, ensuring alignment with division objectives and providing guidance to budget preparers.
• Contribute to budgets for Head Office and work with Department Managers to ensure branch is prepared accurately and consistently.
• Monitor and communicate budget performance against preset targets.
• Review budgets for quality (phasing, granularity etc.). Challenge assumptions where appropriate.
• Work with Department manager on scenario modelling and sensitivity analysis to test the robustness of budgeted results and search for opportunities to increase profit.
• Support Department Manager in the development of accurate Balance Sheet budgeting, including loan forecast.
• Work with rest of central FP&A team to prepare final budget pack, summarising overall performance of the European region.
• Work with Department Manager and BP teams to create financial projections as required. This links to consideration of implementing rolling forecasts.
• Working with Department Manager, local teams and the wider FP&A team, develop plans for profit improvement and follow-up with entities.
• Provide insight regarding budget, including monitoring KPIs between branches.
• Work with the rest of the Finance team to drive process improvements in working capital management.
• Input financial expertise to relevant business projects..
• Provide financial representation at meetings, where required.
• Support Group Finance re. audit requirements (internal and external).
• Motivate, develop and manage the 1 direct report.

Requirements:

• Qualified accountant - CIMA/ACCA/ACA
• Detail oriented.
• Comfortable working with a variety of people of varying financial experience across Europe and able to bridge the finance/non finance gap.
• Well organised but with a flexible approach.
• European experience is a plus.
• Proven record of process improvement, particularly in FP&A context.
• Challenging mindset and responsive to customer requirements.

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