FP&A Manager - Partnerships & Ventures

As an FP&A Manager based from either our Bury, Burton or London offices you will be joining our Partnerships & Ventures division which is an exciting Pubs growth division with organic brand swaps and acquisitions planned. With this will come a wide range of responsibilities and opportunities for development. The FP&A Manager role is a key member of the Partnerships & Ventures Finance team, supporting the Financial Controller and Finance Director to ensure the financial integrity of the Partnerships & Ventures P&L and balance sheet, proactively supporting the business to better understand performance drivers and playing a vital role in the delivery of key reporting and planning processes.

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 receive £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…

Your role as an FP&A Manager

• Expertise in producing financial commentaries of high quality and accuracy. Able to succinctly articulate drivers of financial performance.
• Manage consolidation of weekly financial results for P&V Division, reviewing upon production by FP&A analyst before distribution to multi-level stakeholders of P&V.
• Lead on Ventures period end review activities, co-ordinating review activity across all Venture businesses, taking ownership of key issues as they arise. Representing Ventures at cross divisional period end close review meetings. Preparation of key drivers of period result for FC/ FD sign-off.
• Production of Periodic Financial Commentary, preparing summary packs for FC/ FD review before distribution to the multi-level stakeholders of P&V.
• Production of P&V consolidated Monthly Business Review pack, including collation and consolidation of commentaries and tables from 6 business units including quality and content review. Includes production of unified reporting encompassing multiple data sources and P&L structures.
• Collation of P&V financial outputs during the year, including Risks & Opportunities consolidation, strategic plan and budgeting, liaising with each of the Pub Partners & Venture teams when required to deliver a combined view of performance. 
• Liaise with Managed Reporting, Deployment (team costs), other FP&A teams and other areas as required to ensure a unified approach where appropriate across Managed divisions.
• Be the P&V expert on Investments, including Development Capex, Acquisitions, Ops Capital, Repairs, and annual budgeting. Collation of P&V development programme.
• Ensure inclusion of Hickory’s arms-length business with all aspects of work. Requires flexibility in incorporation of non-Greene King data in standard GK reporting and templates.
• Act as deputy for the FC, covering meetings and workload when they are not available.
• Line management responsibility for 1 x FP&A analyst.

What you'll bring...

• Qualified accountant
• Advanced Excel (inc Macros/VBA)
• COGNOS (SQL desirable)
• Previous business partnering experience at a senior level
• Good PowerPoint and presentation skills
• Change management
• Process improvement

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