Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

About the role

The Financial Planning and Analysis Manager drives profitable growth by turning plans, numbers and market signals into decisions. The role owns the annual product budget, rolling forecasts, margin management and GC performance reporting for the FMCG business, and acts as finance business partner to commercial and operations leaders.

Key responsibilities

• Budgeting and forecasting: lead the annual SKU-wise budget (volume, price, mix, COGS, opex, capex and working capital) and run monthly rolling and quarterly re-forecasts with clear bridges to budget and prior forecast; build driver-based models linking sales volume to raw material, packaging, conversion and distribution costs, including RM, PM and consumables price inflation impact.
• Performance reporting: deliver the monthly management pack within 5 working days of close (P&L by brand, SKU, channel and region with variance commentary), produce price-volume-mix and gross-to-net bridges, maintain the weekly flash (sales, gross margin, stock days, debtors) and prepare BRM performance materials with the Financial Controller.
• Margin management: own SKU, customer and channel profitability, evaluate pricing, trade promotions and discounts, run post-event ROI, track trade spend and support route-to-market decisions.
• Cost and operations finance: partner with production on standard costs, yield, wastage and capacity, analyse plant break-even, and support procurement on material cost forecasts.
• Investment appraisal: build business cases for new SKUs, line extensions, capex and plant expansion (NPV, IRR, payback, sensitivities), run post-investment reviews and give finance input on new market entry and distribution restructuring.
• Working capital: forecast inventory, debtors and creditors and track the cash conversion cycle by business line.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or a quantitative field.
• Professional qualification: ACA (ICAN) or ACCA; CFA or MBA an advantage.
• 7-10 years' post-qualification experience, at least 4 in FP&A or commercial finance in FMCG or consumer goods manufacturing.
• Proven experience building driver-based budgets and SKU/channel profitability in a multi-product business.

Required skills

• Advanced Excel and financial modelling
• ERP experience, ideally NetSuite or SAP
• Power BI or similar