FP&A Manager [FTC]

the ideal candidate:

• Qualified accountant [ACCA / CIMA or equivalent], or qualified by experience in a senior FP&A role
• A highly organised and experienced FP&A professional with a strong track record of leading budgeting and forecasting processes end-to-end
• Comfortable taking ownership of complex planning cycles, managing timelines, coordinating inputs and ensuring outputs are accurate, clear and delivered on time
• Strong analytical capability, with experience interpreting complex data sets and turning analysis into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders
• Confident working independently in a temporary role, quickly building relationships and bringing structure, pace and control to planning processes
• A collaborative communicator who can influence across finance, commercial and leadership teams

about us:

itsu is the healthy eating, Asian inspired quick service retail & grocery brand with over 70 stores in the UK and a leading grocery business across Europe and beyond. Renowned for its best-in-class food made fresh in every shop every day, itsu has huge global ambitions with a commitment to continue to open many more stores and intensify the growth of its already thriving grocery arm. With its best-is-class healthy food, latest technology, innovation, and talented workforce, itsu is the future of fast food.

itsu [grocery], which this role falls under, takes the itsu brand into supermarkets, health food stores, online, wholesale and internationally with products such as crispy seaweed thins, frozen gyoza & bao, brilliant’broth, rice’noodles & miso’easy to name a few…

D&I statement:

itsu [grocery] is committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive organisation. We encourage applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply for all of our opportunities.

When applying for a role with us, please remove your: full name, name of University/School, address, email address and any photos of you on your CV and covering letter. non-anonymised CVs may not be reviewed.

Scope of the role:

This is a temporary 6-month role reporting into the Head of Commercial Finance. The Head of Commercial Finance will provide oversight and direction, but the successful candidate will ideally take day-to-day ownership of the budgeting, forecasting and planning processes, bringing structure, control and momentum to key finance activities.

• Lead the budgeting and forecasting processes end-to-end, managing timelines, templates, stakeholder inputs, review meetings and final outputs
• Work closely with the Head of Commercial Finance to ensure planning outputs are robust, clearly understood and aligned to business priorities
• Partner with commercial, finance and leadership teams to gather assumptions, challenge inputs and translate business plans into clear financial forecasts
• Own and improve planning models, templates and reporting packs, ensuring they are accurate, consistent, easy to use and fit for purpose
• Identify opportunities to improve existing budgeting and forecasting processes, including better ways to capture assumptions, track changes and communicate outputs
• Provide clear variance analysis, scenario modelling and insight to support decision-making across sales, margin, overheads, cashflow and wider business performance
• Support ad hoc analysis and project work as required, helping the business understand performance, risks, opportunities and trade-offs
• Bring strong organisation, attention to detail and proactive communication to ensure stakeholders know what is required, when it is required and how decisions will be made

what we offer:

• Competitive salary
• Competitive bonus scheme
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays (two bank holidays are interchangeable for other religious holidays)
• Health insurance
• Company pension scheme
• Hybrid working (2 days wfh)
• Opportunity to work from abroad
• 50% employee discount in itsu shops
• Free itsu lunch
• Discounts at major retailers
• Salary sacrifice cycle and electric vehicle schemes
• A sizeable training budget to support your ongoing development