Emea Financial Planning And Analysis Manager - Full Smart Working Bardi

Emea Financial Planning And Analysis Manager - Full Smart Working
Bardi
Emilia Romagna, Bardi

EMEA FINANCIAL PLANNING AND ANALYSIS MANAGER - Full smart working EMEA Finance Planning and Analysis Manager The Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Manager is an integral role in the Components EMEA Finance team.

This is an exciting business partnering role, with responsibilities spanning Regional FP&A across 19 sites covering the Europe, Africa and the Middle East; and Lead finance integration of acquisition targets and other strategic projects.

The business welcomes energetic and hands-on candidates, looking to deliver outstanding results.

The role is responsible for insightful analysis to cross functional business partners, managing the annual Plan, semesterly re-forecasting processes, latest view forecasting, evaluating and integrating acquisitions as well as line managing FP&A/business analysts.

In addition, this role is pivotal in analysing an extensive amount of data to deliver strategic insight as well as being a leader of continuous improvement in the reporting and analysis processes.

Reporting and Analysis • Analyse, challenge and interpret the month end results to provide detailed analysis and insight into variances in sales, margin, overhead and working capital.

• Produce bridging and commentary between Actuals, Budgets and Forecasts.

Understand and explain the causes for large variances, provide documented commentary and challenge the variances with the sites.

• Help steer the messaging and content of the month end reporting pack to ensure the correct insights and actions are communicated to management.

• Lead analysis of all areas of the P&L to identify opportunities and propose actions to improve profitability the Region

• Develop value adding reporting and review processes and procedures to ensure efficiency and timeliness of information and deliver additional insight.

• Leverage new data analytics tools to provide insightful analysis from which business decisions can be taken.

• Own the Capex control & reporting process to identify spending risks and ensure expected efficiencies are delivered.

Forecasting & Planning • Deliver the annual budgeting and quarterly forecast process for the Region to ensure a rigorous, insightful output.

• Drive the forecast and annual budget process with the sites to ensure numbers are pressure tested for both commercial and financial integrity.

• Put in place incremental processes to improve forecast accuracy over short, medium, and long-range periods

• Establish continuous improvement processes to drive a best-in-class regional FP&A function

Region Business Partnering • Provide challenge and guidance from a Finance perspective to commercial, supply chain and operations leads

• Support investment appraisals within the sites and offer guidance where required, as well as helping to identify and track benefits arising from investment opportunities.

• Develop financial models and analyses to support strategic initiatives; be the finance lead on key projects in the Region

• Support the AMERS business, providing analysis, challenge, and commercial support to improve business performance and aid decision making.

• Track and manage profit enhancement plans to ensure delivery of gross margin and operating profit targets.

• Identify opportunities for improvement and ensure they are driven through to completion.

• Analyse and develop tools mining useful information from an extensive data set.

• Provide critical review of reporting processes and drive improvements.

Internal Control • Participate to the yearly independent balance sheet and control files review.

Business Partnering ERP Roll out • Support Dynamics 365 implementation from a FP&A perspective.

Team Management • Responsible for a team of 2 FP&A focused individuals

• Manage performance, coach and mentor team and address any poor performance/provide recognition where appropriate

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