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Interim FP&A Manager - 12 month FTC

  • Location: Leeds
  • Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum + Holiday, Pension & Healthcare
  • Job Type:Interim

Posted about 1 year ago

This highly successful Leeds based Retail business currently have an opportunity for an experienced FP&A professional to join the team based in the City Centre.

The FP&A manager will play a key role in historical and current business performance analytics, together with future forecasting, to engage with senior stakeholders from across the business to provide information to support key business decisions.

The main duties of the role are as follows:
* Produce high level presentations for company board, senior internal managers and external stakeholders.
* Provide analysis to enable the business to evaluate commercial opportunities, achieve objectives and formulate strategy. To identify risks, trends and opportunities for future performance.
* Ownership and delivery of reporting packs and ad hoc analysis for weekly, monthly and quarterly guidance/reporting to internal senior leadership and external stakeholders.
* Plan and drive a robust, focused, value-added budgeting and strategic planning process, to include long term P&L, Balance Sheet and Cashflow to align the strategy of the business and funding requirements.
* Drive and deliver a cadence of KPI performance metrics advising leadership on the best metrics to deliver step changes in business performance.
* Support the forecasting process and review the operational assumptions, investigating variances, and challenging to ensure optimal operational and performance decisions.
* Support the Annual Budget process and rolling two years medium term plan.
* Support the 13-weeks rolling short-term cash-flow forecast.
* Support the groups monthly management reporting process, delivering any requested analysis.
* Support Sales & Margin analysis by sales channel, Business Unit and geographical locations.
* Support analysis of Stock (optimisation levels, slow-moving) by location; timing of purchase orders and open to buy levels
* Support the Finance Director in all aspects of Corporate financial management.
* Business partner various functions both finance and non finance including Sales, Operations & HR.
* Drive development of Navision reporting and training of finance and non-finance staff in optimum use.

Ideally you will have experience within the Retail sector, and have experience of Navision, though this is not essential.

If this role is for you, and you can commit to a 12-month FTC, then please don't hesitate to get in touch.


Sharp Consultancy is a finance and accountancy recruitment specialist assisting accounting and finance divisions of businesses in the Yorkshire and Derbyshire area. With over 30 years' experience we pride ourselves on sourcing excellent finance professionals across all divisions of an accounts function, from finance administrators through to senior Finance Director appointments. Please visit our website www.sharpconsultancy.com for more information on accountancy jobs or accountancy recruitment; finance jobs or finance recruitment.

Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK full time without restriction. To apply please send your CV to the e-mail address stated, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not always possible to respond to unsuccessful applicants. Therefore if we have not responded to your application within seven days please note that on this occasion your application has not been successful.