Head of FP&A

Our client, a leading PE backed Healthcare business is looking for a best in class FP&A professional to take over full ownership of the function.

FP&A Mission: Provide robust, user-friendly reporting & analysis; to support the business in decision making and delivering objectives. Reporting to CFO, work across a team of informed and insightful trusted advisers providing high quality, commercially focused, finance business partnering to the Board.

Responsibilities/Tasks

• Have full ownership of the FP&A function of the Group.
• Ownership of budgeting and forecasting processes, supporting commercial finance. Responsible for developing and monitoring KPI's in order to deliver the forecasts.
• Improvement of budgeting and forecasting processes by developing P/E financial modelling and forecasting tools.
• Driving improvements in collaboration with key stakeholders, implementing change if necessary.
• Use knowledge of economics and accounting to provide financial analysis that will improve business performance and spur profitability growth.
• Determine best course of action to mitigate financial risks.
• Identify weaknesses and perform risk evaluations of the company business plan and financial model.
• Analyse both current and past trends in the business units, looking at the divisions KPI's such as Revenue, Cost of Sales (GP) and Headcount / SG&A.
• Monitoring this information regularly, often producing flash reporting for Leadership team and departments that sit within them.
• Identify key trends and performance drivers, which provide Business Partners with data to align with key strategies.
• Overseeing all reporting requirements delivered by the Leadership Team via the Group FC/CFO across all commercial outputs.

Qualifications:

The successful candidate will be qualified (ACCA/CIMA/ACA) with first time passes and strong academic background and clear examples of business success in roles already held. There are clear future progression opportunities available for the individual who can demonstrate drive, determination and ultimately achieve results.