FP&A Analyst

As an FP&A Finance Analyst, you’ll be at the core of our Brewing & Brands Finance team, where your work is essential to driving the financial success of our business. This role will be crucial in navigating the Brewing & Brands business through providing high quality insight, influencing key stakeholders and driving material business impact at every level of the organisation.

Join us at Greene King the country's leading pub company and brewer, where our mission is to pour happiness into lives and become the pride of great British hospitality. We have something special, deeply rooted in our 220-year brewing and pub history, creating the business we are proudly known for today. Still today our 39,000 strong team are the guardians of what’s wholly British, the pub experience.  

We’re all about rewarding our team’s hard work, that’s why…

You’ll receive a competitive salary, pension contribution as well as:

• The chance to further your career across our well-known brands – as one of the industry's top apprenticeship providers, we can provide training and development at each level of your career. 
• Discount of 33% for you and 15% for your loved ones on all of our brands – so you enjoy your favourite food and drink at a discount.
• Free employee assistance program – mental health, well-being, financial, and legal support because you matter!
• Discount of 50% for you and 25% for your loved ones at our Greene King Inns and hotels. – so you can enjoy a weekend away without breaking the bank.
• Refer a friend – who do you know who could be interested in a new role? When they are placed, you could earn £1,500 for referring them!
• Wagestream – access your wage before payday for when life happens.
• Retail discounts – Receive up to 30% off at Superdrug, exclusive discounts with three mobile along with many more…

Applies a level of skill and knowledge in a range of situations but recognising that there are still some areas of development in this role at this level

• Understands the strategy of the business and the role of finance in delivering it.
• Support Business Partners with extraction and manipulation of data from Greene King’s various Management Information Systems, validating this data and preparing detailed analysis and performance metrics as required.
• Investigate and identify anomalies with data and propose solutions to correct.
• Provide direct support to FP&A Lead and Finance Director on project/ad hoc work as required.
• Ownership of the Risks & Opps process within B&B Finance, a key tool which facilitates horizon scanning and forward business planning to drive early warning system for course correction where appropriate. 
• Understands the principles of budgeting/forecasting and how to identify variances to actual performance.
  Plays a crucial role in the end-to-end budget process producing consolidations, identify checks, building checks and questioning variance to relevant comparators. Producing bridges and completing templates for Corporate and internal purposes.
• Validate all data for inclusions in FP&A reporting templates. Complete these reports and ensure all analysis is complete and accurate. Suggest and develop improvements to reporting processes and outputs where it is felt there are improvements to be had.
• Provide support for the period end reporting across the Brewing & Brands Finance Team as required.
  Take part and add value to period end close meetings, support with any P&L queries both with variance analysis and
  technical mappings.
• Consolidation and analysis of data and reports as required by the Brewing & Brands Exec.
• Liaise/work closely with the Centre of Excellence Finance teams to ensure all data and reports received by Brewing & Brands are complete and the right quality, with an ongoing focus on continual process improvement.
• Understands the need for robust financial governance in the business together with adherence to the wider Group’s policies.
• Has a general understanding of Brewing & Brands’ business streams and its value to other parts of the business.
• Completion of ad hoc analysis and reporting for the wider Brewing & Brands Finance Team as required.
• Be the go-to contact for Corporate queries on P&L, Balance Sheet and Budget/Forecast.
• Review existing business processes (As-is), identify areas for improvement, and develop future-state processes (To-Be) to establish the required business needs.
• Support the periodic in-period forecasting process providing reasons for any variances. Offer possible solutions to align the budget with targets.
• Provide senior leadership with insights around trends in the data, considering internal and external factors to support strategic decision making flagging potential Risks and Opportunities.

What you’ll bring… 

• Maintains a professional approach at all times
• Shows an interest in and understanding of others' work
• Learning to coach, listen, develop others with some assistance from own line manager
• Able to work on tasks without direction, meeting & exceeding the required expectation
• Able to plan own workload and balance conflicting priorities
• Makes decisions with confidence, and takes action based on decisions
• Refers decisions to a more senior employee where appropriate
• Recognises impact of decisions and takes ownership of outcomes
• Studying for: AAT, CIMA, ACCA etc at entry years desirable.