FP&A Analyst

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Role Overview 

 The FP&A Analyst is a core member of the Financial Planning & Analysis team, responsible for delivering high-quality financial planning, reporting, and analytical insight across the European business. The role sits within the Finance function and works closely with regional business partners, the Head of Finance, and cross-functional teams to ensure that financial performance is well understood and that planning processes are rigorous and forward-looking. 

Beyond the day-to-day analytical work, this role carries a genuine responsibility for driving how our finance processes evolve. We want someone who will take the time to understand how things currently work, stand back and ask the hard questions, and then take ownership of making them better. The right candidate will bring practical experience of AI and automation tools, not as a specialism, but as a working habit, and will apply that mindset from day one to identify where manual effort can be eliminated, where reporting can be made smarter, and where scenario planning and analysis can be sharpened. This is not a role where process improvement is a side project; it is a core part of what we expect this person to deliver. 

The analyst will also represent European FP&A interests in the design phase of Finnovation, the organisation’s global ERP consolidation project, helping to ensure that the global processes and systems being built reflect the real needs of the business. 

Key Responsibilities

1.  Financial Planning & Analysis 

• Lead the annual budget process for assigned European entities or cost centres, coordinating inputs from business partners and consolidating into a coherent financial plan. 

• Produce and maintain rolling forecasts that reflect current business conditions, proactively flagging risks and opportunities to management. 

• Develop and maintain financial models to support business cases, investment appraisals, and strategic planning across the region. 

• Respond to ad-hoc analytical requests, delivering well-structured outputs on time. 

• Perform variance analysis (actual vs. budget vs. forecast) with clear, concise narrative that helps stakeholders understand what is driving performance. 

2.  Month-End Accounting & Financial Control 

• Own the month-end accrual process for your areas: book high-value accruals, review AP accruals, and post adjustments where required. 

• Perform structured pre- and post-close analytical review of the P&L, identifying unusual cost movements and incorrect cost centre bookings before management reporting is distributed. 

• Review country-level costs (fringe, overheads) for reasonableness; validate against plan, forecast and prior periods. 

• Support internal and external audit requirements and respond to auditor queries within agreed timelines. 

3.  Reporting & Business Partnering 

• Help prepare and present the monthly and quarterly management reporting pack, including P&L by function, with meaningful, insight-led variance commentary. 

• Prepare quarterly variance commentary for Corporate Finance and produce detailed quarter-end deck for your relevant areas. 

• Provide business partners and budget holders with clear, timely reporting on actuals vs plan; drive accountability and ownership of cost forecasts. 

• Build strong working relationships across Finance functions — AP, Payroll, HR, Business Intelligence — to ensure a smooth month-end process and deliver exceptional service to internal customers. 

4.  Process Improvement & Automation 

• Continuously identify and challenge manual, repetitive and low-value processes across the FP&A team, bringing a fresh, objective perspective on what should be automated, simplified or eliminated. 

• Design and implement automation solutions that reduce manual effort in reporting, forecasting and month-end workflows. 

• Leverage AI tools (including Copilot and Claude) to accelerate financial analysis, planning and forecasting, variance commentary drafting and data summarisation. 

• Help build self-service reporting dashboards and data models in Power BI or equivalent, giving budget holders real-time visibility of their spend and reducing ad hoc requests to FP&A. 

• Partner with Finance technology and IT teams to improve data flows between systems (ERP, planning tool, CRM, HR), reducing manual extraction and reconciliation work. 

• Document improved processes clearly so that gains are embedded and sustainable, not reliant on individual knowledge. 

• Act as a champion for digital upskilling within the FP&A team; share knowledge and tools that raise the team’s overall capability. 

5.  Finnovation Programme  

• Work with the European FP&A team in the design phase of Finnovation, the global ERP consolidation project. 

• Ensure that the processes, data structures, and reporting capabilities being designed within Finnovation reflect the real planning and reporting needs of the European business. 

• Review proposed process and system designs from a European FP&A perspective, providing structured feedback and raising requirements that risk being overlooked in a global design. 

• Collaborate with the global programme team, IT, and other regional finance representatives to arrive at solutions that work across the business — not just in one market. 

What We Are Looking For 

You are a finance professional with solid FP&A experience. You understand the full planning and reporting cycle and are capable of owning outputs, not just supporting them. You bring the analytical discipline and attention to detail that finance work demands, alongside the communication skills to make your analysis genuinely useful to the people who rely on it. 

• Solid understanding of financial accounting principles, P&L and balance sheet, and how they connect to management reporting. 

• Proven experience in budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis, with the ability to own these processes end to end. 

• Strong financial modelling skills: structured, auditable models built in Excel or equivalent, with the ability to design for scenario and sensitivity analysis. 

• Experience working in a European or multi-entity finance environment is advantageous but not essential. 

• Comfortable working to month-end and quarter-end deadlines, managing competing priorities without compromising quality. 

• Able to communicate financial analysis clearly to non-finance audiences, adapting language and level of detail to the reader. 

Experience with AI and automation tools is not a requirement, but it is something we are actively looking for. The ideal candidate will already be using these tools as a natural part of how they work, rather than as something they are yet to explore. 

• Some practical experience using AI tools to improve the speed or quality of financial work. 

• A genuine interest in how AI can be applied to finance processes, particularly in the areas of modelling, scenario analysis, and reporting, and the initiative to continue developing in this area. 

• Awareness of where AI adds genuine value in a finance context and where human judgement remains essential. 

Background & Qualifications 

A professional finance qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent). Relevant hands-on FP&A experience is the primary consideration — we are interested in what you have delivered. 

AI and automation experience is not a formal requirement. Candidates who have developed practical capability in this area through any route — whether in a previous role, through self-directed learning, or through personal projects — are encouraged to demonstrate this in their application. We are interested in evidence of practical use, not formal qualifications. 

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