Group Finance Manager (MI)

PE backed international FMCG business

Circa £85,000 + bonus & benefits

Central London (hybrid)

This well-known, market leading PE backed retail business operates across multiple European markets, serving millions of customers through a diverse and evolving commercial network.

With a long-established heritage, significant scale, and an ambitious transformation agenda, this is an exciting opportunity to join a business undergoing continued growth and evolution.

The business is looking to appoint a Corporate Reporting Manager to oversee the delivery, accuracy and ongoing enhancement of core Financial Management Information (MI) across the Group.

This is a high-profile position within Group Finance, with responsibility for providing clear, accurate and timely reporting and insight to senior stakeholders, including Executive Leadership teams, Board-level audiences and operational business units.

Partnering closely with Finance Business Partners and regional teams, you will play a key role in ensuring consistent, high-quality consolidated and sub-consolidated reporting that supports effective decision-making across a complex international organisation.

Key Responsibilities

You will take ownership of cyclical Financial MI processes, ensuring accuracy, consistency and insight across all reporting cycles, including:

• Monthly management accounts reporting, including:
  • P&L
  • Balance sheet
  • Cashflow
  • Debt and working capital
  • KPI reporting
• Forecasting, annual budgeting and business planning processes
• Financial Risk & Opportunity reporting
• Commercial performance and revenue analysis
• Support for incentive scheme reporting and analysis
• Additional Group and Business Unit reporting requirements as needed

You will also play an instrumental role in driving improvements to reporting processes, embedding consistency and supporting best practice across the wider finance function.

Required profile

• A qualified accountant with experience in financial reporting, consolidation and management information within a complex, multi-entity environment

• Experience working with financial consolidation and reporting systems
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills, with good knowledge of Power BI
• Strong technical knowledge of management accounting and financial reporting
• The ability to interpret and connect complex data sets to produce meaningful financial insight
• First class planning and organisational skills
• Experience working to tight and recurring reporting deadlines
• Strong stakeholder communication and presentation skills
• A proactive, resilient and collaborative approach