FP&A Finance Analyst (B&B)

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.

• 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

• 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.