Financial Planning Analyst

Role Summary

We are looking for someone who is excited about the prospect of building a career in using data to drive business performance. This role isnt just sifting through numbers but rather asking the so what to help teams push forward making positive change to drive and protect sales profit and ways of working. The FP&A Analyst supports financial planning forecasting and performance analysis to help drive informed business decisions. The role is responsible for producing accurate budgets forecasts and management reports analysing financial performance and key business drivers and partnering with stakeholders to provide clear actionable insights. The FP&A Analyst plays a key role in improving financial visibility supporting strategic initiatives and enhancing financial processes and controls.

With so many inspiring and passionate members of the Abel & Cole family the successful candidate must have the ability to build effective relationships across the business.

What youll be getting up to:

Financial Planning & Forecasting

• Prepare and maintain annual budgets rolling forecasts and long-range financial plans
• Analyse variances vs. budget forecast and prior periods
• Build and maintain financial models to support planning and scenario analysis

Management Reporting & Analysis

• Produce monthly management reports dashboards and KPIs
• Provide insightful commentary on financial performance and key business drivers
• Analyse revenue costs margins headcount and cash flow trends

Business Partnering

• Strong business partnering capability across commercial marketing operational finance and data teams
• Comfortable working cross-functionally in different capacities leading initiatives building solutions or contributing to broader projects
• Translate financial data into clear actionable insights for non-finance stakeholders
• Support investment cases pricing decisions and strategic initiatives

Data & Systems

• Experience analysing data from large structured business systems (e.g. SAP NetSuite D365 Salesforce)
• Ability to design or build analytical tools and models that feed into business systems and forecasting platforms
• Maintain and improve financial models reports and planning tools
• Ensure data accuracy and consistency across systems
• Support automation and process improvements within FP&A

Ad Hoc & Strategic Support

• Support board or senior leadership presentations
• Perform ad hoc financial analysis as required
• Assist with business cases and strategic projects

What we are looking for:

Technical Skills

• Demonstrated ability to initiate lead and deliver transformational improvements to business processes and commercial performance
• Experience of conducting analyses using the outputs of large structured systems (e.g. SAP NetSuite D365 Salesforce) and/or experience of designing analytical tools which can provide inputs to such systems and forecasting tools
• Strong financial modelling and analytical skills
• Advanced Excel (pivot tables lookups formulas)
• Understanding of P&L balance sheet and cash flow

Soft Skills

• Strong commercial acumen and business mindset
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• High attention to detail with the ability to see the big picture

Qualifications & Experience

• 24 years of experience in FP&A finance consulting audit or any other transferrable analytical discipline
• No formal accounting qualification required but also open to qualified or part-qualified accountants
• Study support is available for anyone looking to undertake an accountancy qualification with us

What we offer

• To undertake the role full time: Monday - Friday 37.5 hours per week (flexible timings)
• To undertake the role part time: 28.0-37.5 hours per week (days and times by mutual agreement)
• 33 days inclusive of bank holidays (FTE Pro-rata)
• A free box of fruit and veg every week (its pretty delicious!) alongside company discount of up to 35%
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Grants for sport performing arts education and non-vocational courses.
• Contributory pension scheme