Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Lincoln

Full time | Permanent

Analytical, commercially minded and confident working with senior stakeholders?

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing business within the food and agriculture sector, where you'll play an important role in shaping financial strategy, supporting business growth and helping the wider business make better decisions.

Working closely with the Financial Controller, CFO and senior leadership team, you'll take ownership of budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling and performance reporting, turning complex financial information into clear, meaningful insight.

If you're someone who enjoys looking ahead, understands the bigger picture and isn't afraid to challenge the numbers, this could be the role for you.

What's on offer?

• Permanent, full time position
• Key role within the Finance function
• Close working relationship with senior leadership
• Responsibility for budgeting, forecasting and long term financial planning
• Opportunity to influence strategic decision making
• Scope to improve reporting, systems and processes

What's the job?

You'll take responsibility for the company's forward looking financial information, including annual budgets, quarterly and rolling forecasts and the five year strategic plan.

You'll produce clear analysis and reporting to help senior leaders understand performance, risks and opportunities, while also improving financial models, reporting processes and automation across the business.

Day to day, you'll be:

• Owning the FP&A process across the business
• Developing financial models for budgeting, forecasting and scenario planning
• Preparing three way models covering P&L, Cashflow and Balance Sheet
• Managing the monthly forecasting cycle and annual budget process
• Preparing month end management packs and analysing P&L, working capital and capex
• Identifying and communicating key risks and opportunities
• Preparing senior management and Board reports and presentations
• Developing dashboards and reports to make financial information clear and accessible
• Leading improvements and automation across financial reporting
• Supporting strategic projects, business cases and ad hoc analysis
• Managing free cashflow forecasting and reporting
• Working closely with Business Partners, Controlling and business unit owners
• Supporting non finance stakeholders with their budgets and financial performance
• Building strong relationships with senior stakeholders and providing commercial insight

This is a hands on role where you'll need to be comfortable working with detail while understanding the bigger picture. You'll need to turn complex financial information into clear, practical insight that helps the business make better decisions.

What do I need?

• Qualified Accountant with CIMA, ACCA or ACA
• Degree in Accounting, Finance or a related subject
• Significant FP&A or similar experience
• Strong experience across budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling and strategic planning
• Experience working with senior leaders and non finance stakeholders
• Highly skilled in Excel and PowerPoint
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Commercially minded with the confidence to challenge and influence
• Proactive, organised and comfortable working to deadlines
• Strong attention to detail and a genuine interest in continuous improvement

Experience with ERP or financial planning systems such as SAP, NetSuite, Sage Intacct, Adaptive Insights, Anaplan or Planful would be beneficial. Power BI or Tableau experience would also be useful, as would experience within food or agriculture.

Most importantly, you'll need to be someone who can look beyond the numbers, challenge assumptions and turn financial information into insight that helps the business move forward.

What's next?

If you're looking for your next opportunity in FP&A and want to join a business where you'll have genuine responsibility and the opportunity to influence strategic decisions, we'd love to hear from you. Please give me a call: or reach out on email: