Job Description

• Prepare quarterly forecasts and long-range plans ensuring stakeholder engagement
• Identify and monitor key risk and opportunities to performance vs plan
• Prepare monthly commercial forecasts ensuring alignment between Commercial and Buying functions to ensure efficient utilization of working capital
• Partner with the Treasury to build weekly cash forecasting to manage the Group's liquidity
• Report monthly management accounts for all international markets and the R&D team, drawing out relevant insight into business performance for senior management
• Prepare monthly central cost Centre reporting
• Use a combination of financial data and key performance indicators to analyze financial performance ensuring all KPIs are documented
• Work with the Financial Accounting team to support future developments in reporting
• Business Partner Retail leaders to provide a single point of contact for Finance
• Monitor performance ensuring P&Ls are accurately reported, performance is understood and identify opportunities for improvement

What's on Offer

• Competitive salary
• Annual company bonus
• 25 days' holiday + Bank Holidays
• Pension contribution and life assurance
• Opportunities for personal growth and development
• Employee discount on products

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• ACA/CIMA/ACCA qualified accountant with FP&A experience in a Retail or FMCG business
• Interpersonal skills, great at building relationships with many people across the organization
• Excellent skills working with systems and are comfortable at manipulating data, working with Excel to a high level
• Adept at working on multiple tasks, prioritizing when necessary
• Proactive and actively seek solutions to problems, happy to work autonomously where required
• Comfortable with ambiguity and problem solving independently and with other teams
• Able to combine strategic big picture thinking with the capacity to get hands on in the detail.
• Can get things done by collaborating well with others, communicating openly and comfortable in giving constructive and motivating feedback
• Is mindful of their impact on the wider team and their responsibility to create and maintain a productive, engaging and high-performance culture