Ref - FP&A/Finance Business Partner/Commercial Accountant/Management Accountant/Commercial Finance Manager – Ref 4242

ACMA & CGMA Qualified FP&A

Immediately available ACMA & CGMA Qualified FP&A professional with over a decade of commercial finance experience within the retail and manufacturing industry, combining technical finance skills with hands-on BI and data analytics capability. Experienced in budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and margin reporting across multi-site and trading environments, with a track record of delivering insight directly to senior leadership. Builds and automates reporting in Excel, Power Query, Tableau, and Power BI — reducing reliance on manual processes and improving the quality of commercial decision-making.

ACMA & CGMA Qualified FP&A Skills

  • Supported Head of FP&A & Business Partnering across budgeting, forecasting, and financial modelling across UK and overseas operations, operating in a dual-currency (GBP/EUR) multi-territory trading environment
  • Delivered month-end reporting at both consolidated group level and separately for each entity, including P&L, variance analysis (Actual vs Budget vs PY), and EBITDA bridges – with EUR/GBP currency consolidation
  • Built executive-level reporting including a redesigned summary slide with structured financial narrative (recognised by Group FD)
  • Produced consolidated and entity-level sales performance analysis vs budget, forecast, and run rate, providing clear visibility of regional performance and supporting more targeted commercial decision-making
  • Contributed to weekly rolling forecasts and COGS reconciliation to improve gross margin transparency, including partnership with Order Fulfilment, Finance, and People Team on overheads, freight, wages and bonuses
  • Developed category mix analysis to monitor performance across product categories and identify improvement opportunities, working directly with Sales department and Category Managers
  • Reviewed and simplified FP&A reporting models (daily, month-end, US vs UK adjustments)
  • Budgeting, Forecasting & Rolling Forecasts
  • Financial Modelling & Scenario Analysis
  • Management Reporting & Variance Analysis
  • Margin, Cost & Profitability Analysis
  • Business Partnering with Operations
  • Process Improvement & Reporting Automation
  • Data Analytics & BI: Tableau, Power BI, SQL
  • Technical: Advanced Excel (Power Query, Pivot Tables), MySQL, Sage ERP 1000, Microsoft Dynamics GP
  • Soft Skills: Problem Solving, Stakeholder Management, Team Collaboration
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