FP&A Manager (Fixed Term Contract)

As an FP&A Manager, you will be a key partner to the Group FP&A team responsible for driving insight, improving financial processes, and ensuring robust financial decision making. You will assist in implementing and running all the financial planning and management reporting processes, working with teams across finance and the business to define and deliver robust high-quality management information and insight.

The successful candidate will have strong analytical, process improvement and communication skills. They will also be able to roll their sleeves up, work through and solve problems working across large data sets and provide quality analysis to enable action/ results.

This position is a fixed term contract based at our Bristol office.

In this role your key responsibilities will be:

•  Working closely with the Head of FP&A, providing clear financial planning and analysis across the business, focusing on the monthly closing, forecasts and budget reporting, and the 5 year plan.
•  Production of high quality, insightful management reporting including actuals, budgets, forecasts and operating dashboard/ KPIs for the Executive team and Board.
•  Analyse consolidated budgets and forecasts and provide first round of challenge to the business areas including building gap mitigation actions.
•  Working closely with the Head of FP&A responsible for the monthly closing process and reporting of actual results, providing detailed variance analysis of the results to all key business trends.
•  Consolidating key FTE and KPI data on a monthly basis in a consistent way as defined by FP&A.
•  Driving focus on value and efficiency as part of the decision making process.
•  Maintaining and continually improving current planning software models in Anaplan.
•  Leading and supporting elements of finance transformation.
•  Prepare ad hoc analysis as required by CFO

•  Experience in an FP&A role
•  Ability to use initiative to progress projects
• Strong Microsoft Excel modelling skills
•  Strong analytical skills, able to identify and interpret trends and improve financial forecasting.
•  Strong influencing skills, able to challenge stakeholders at all levels when needed as well as possessing experience of presenting to senior stakeholders
•  Strong business acumen and the ability to identify key drivers of profitability
•  Qualified accountant (CIMA / ACA / ACCA / ICAS)
•  Experience using planning/financial tools (Anaplan preferred, but not essential)

At Zellis we create market-leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services.

Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day:

• Unstoppable together.
• Always learning.
• Make it count.
• Think scale.

Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we’re proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services. With Zellis you’ll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that’s varied, flexible and hugely supportive.

We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you’ll receive:

• A competitive base salary.
• 25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off and the opportunity to buy additional holiday.
• Private medical insurance.
• Life assurance 4x salary.
• Enhanced pension scheme with company contributions up to 8.5%.
• A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.