Head of Financial Planning & Analysis
Location
Rotherham, South Yorkshire | United Kingdom
Job description
Job Description
Job Title: Head of Financial Planning & Analysis
Salary: £60,000 – £70,000
Benefits: To be discussed at interview
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Rotherham
Job Start date: ASAP
We’re supporting our client, a leading global equipment manufacturer based in Rotherham, who are looking for a Head of Financial Planning & Analysis to join their growing team. The successful Head of Financial Planning & Analysis will have experience of developing, forecasting and overseeing the company’s financial goals.
Responsibilities for Head of Financial Planning & Analysis:
Financial Planning:
- Develop and oversee the 5-year financial planning process, including the annual budgeting and forecasting cycles, ensuring alignment with the company’s strategic goals and objectives.
- Collaborate with department heads to set challenging financial targets.
- Create and maintain detailed financial models to support long-term strategic planning.
- Provide analysis and insights to support executive decision-making.
Forecasting & Analysis:
- Oversee the preparation of regular financial forecasts, identifying trends and driving performance improvements
- Conduct comprehensive financial analysis, utilising advanced financial models and tools, to provide insights and recommendations on business performance, profitability, and key metrics. Present findings and reports to senior management.
- Analyse financial performance against key performance indicators (KPIs) and communicate findings to leadership.
- Drive variance analysis and recommend corrective actions.
- Able to construct bespoke financial models linking historic to projected performance
- Develop and maintain sensitivity and scenario analysis
- Able to bridge summary financial P&L performance from A to B for variances to FX, Price, Volume, Continuous Improvement activities, Changes in inventory etc to distil financial performance changes to its rudimentary drivers
- Monitor and analyse value stream performance, operational KPIs and capacity performance to provide resourcing recommendations to enhance overall performance across all 3 of those dimensions to maximise ‘box scores’
- Identify opportunities for cost and price optimisation, scrap reduction, productivity improvement and act as a catalyst for business process improvement across the global operations, commercial and support functions.
- Able to model complex material routings including scrap, and revert loops.
- Understand the importance of growing Material Margins sustainably
- Able to identify and quantify inflationary impacts and ensure management via price increases or other cost-downs
- Familiarity with 80/20 Product Portfolio analysis techniques
Cashflow Planning:
- Familiarity with Treasury management techniques and drivers of free cash flows
- Able to walk EBITDA through net inflow cashflows and critically analyse and drive changes in net debt and working capital
- Familiarity with debt restructuring techniques and presenting effective cash management from a third-party Bank/ funder perspective
- Knowledge of FX risks including use of derivatives and attaining natural hedges
Product Costing, CAPEX Evaluation & Sales Pricing:
- Establish costing process and oversee the costing function to provide accurate inputs for decisions on sales pricing.
- Oversee Capital Evaluation Requests from a modelling perspective understanding Payback, ROCE, IRR measures
- Familiarity with Target Costing techniques
Management Reporting, Performance Reporting & Business Intelligence:
- Develop and produce comprehensive management reports, highlighting key financial metrics and trends.
- Establish and maintain robust reporting mechanisms to monitor and communicate financial performance, including variance analysis, key performance indicators (KPIs), and financial dashboards.
- Present financial information to senior management and provide actionable recommendations.
- Collaborate with business units to ensure accurate and timely reporting.
Business Partnering:
- Collaborate closely with the CFO and executive team, providing financial expertise and insights to support strategic decision-making and long-term planning. Working alongside various business departments including operations, human resources, sales and marketing, among others, providing financial information, tools, analysis and insight, which allows to make more informed decisions while driving business strategy
Stakeholder & Cross Functional Collaboration:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, such as operations, sales, HR and marketing, to understand their financial needs, provide guidance, and facilitate collaborative decision-making.
- Partner with operational departments to understand business drivers and ensure financial plans align with operational strategies.
- Collaborate with accounting to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting.
- Work closely with executive leadership to align financial plans with overall corporate strategy.
Risk Assessment and Management:
- Identify and assess financial risks and opportunities, develop strategies to mitigate risks, and provide recommendations for optimising financial outcomes.
Strategic Initiatives:
- Evaluate the financial impact of strategic initiatives and provide insights on potential risks and opportunities.
- Support mergers and acquisitions activities through financial analysis and due diligence.
- Drive continuous improvement in financial planning processes and tools.
Process Improvement:
- Continuously evaluate and improve financial planning and analysis processes, systems, and methodologies to enhance accuracy, efficiency, and effectiveness.
About You:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance or related discipline; ACA or CGMA preferred
- Proven experience in FP&A function in a multi-national manufacturing group, ideally within precision contract manufacturing
- Proficiency in financial modelling and data analysis tools
- Excellent logic and lateral thinking skills
- Self-starter able to work on own initiative
- High integrity
- Hands-on (doer not delegator)
- Resilient and driven, yet humble with low sense of ego
- Ability to adapt to cultural or regional differences while supporting global financial strategy
- Practitioner of 80/20 techniques and business simplification
- Experienced in LEAN concepts and ideally a proponent of LEAN Finance principles, techniques and tools
- High proficiency in Excel
- Experience in Business Intelligence / data warehouse tools
- Ideally familiarity with LEAN Daily Management techniques (SQDIP)
- Ideally knowledge of Hoshin Planning techniques X-Matrix and/or OKRs
- Ideally (but not essential) fluent in German
- Experience of LucaNet or other similar global consolidation systems, writing bespoke reports from multi-dimensional databases
- Mobile and prepared to travel extensively, with 50%+ of time spent initially in Germany to support integration activities
Job Application:
If you would like to be considered for the role of Head of Financial Planning & Analysis, please apply with your full CV – or call us now. Whilst this position may not be of interest to you or suit your skills and experience, please don’t hesitate to get in contact with a member of the team at Willcox Matthews to understand how we can support you.
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£60k - £70k per annum
