Senior Finance Manager - FP&A

Job description

About the Role We are seeking an experienced Senior FP&A Manager to deliver the financial planning, budgeting, forecasting processes across the UK, Ireland & NL businesses. This is a key role within the finance team, providing strategic insights to support decision-making and drive business growth. The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering high-quality financial analysis, developing robust financial models, and partnering with senior stakeholders to influence strategy and performance outcomes. Please note this role can be based either in our London or Birmingham Head Office. What you'll be doing: Financial planning cycle: Coordinate the end-to-end budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes, ensuring alignment with the organisation’s strategic objectives. Work closely with functional and regional leads to translate business strategies into robust financial plans, ensuring targets are realistic, data-driven, and achievable. Strategic and operational insight: Deliver high-quality financial analysis and insight that informs executive decision-making. Provide rigorous analysis of business performance, identifying key drivers of revenue, margin, and cost trends. Challenge assumptions constructively and support senior leaders in making fact-based decisions that drive sustainable performance improvement. Performance management and business partnering: Partner closely with the Finance Director – FP&A and Transformation and senior business stakeholders to monitor financial and operational performance against budgets, forecasts, and strategic goals. Provide clear visibility of risks and opportunities, recommending corrective actions or interventions where necessary to protect or enhance profitability. Financial modelling and scenario planning: Develop, enhance, and maintain complex financial models to support strategic decision-making & scenario planning, Ensure models are flexible, accurate, and scalable to support a range of commercial and operational initiatives. Use data-driven insights to model the impact of strategic choices, external factors, and market changes on financial outcomes. Risk and Opportunities Analysis: Develop short- and long-term financial plans that account for the potential risks and opportunities affecting the business, supporting data-driven strategic decision-making. Continuous improvement: Drive improvements in financial planning and reporting processes, leveraging technology and automation where possible (e.g. Power BI, or similar). Establish best practice standards for financial analysis and ensure processes are efficient, transparent, and scalable as the business grows. To be successful in this role you'll need: Essential: Qualifications Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent). Experience Experience streamlining and automating financial planning and reporting processes. Proficiency in using modern FP&A tools and BI platforms. Strong Excel and financial modelling capabilities are essential. Experience working in matrix or multi-entity environments, ideally with exposure to both UK and international operations. Comfortable operating in environments undergoing change, transformation, or growth. Proven track record of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), including budgeting, forecasting, and reporting. Commercially minded and strategically focused. Proactive and solution oriented. Highly organised with attention to detail. Why join SSP? At SSP, we’re passionate about creating places people want to be - whether that’s for our customers, our partners or our colleagues.When you join us, you’ll be part of a business where commercial thinking, collaboration and ownership really matter, and where your work can make a visible difference. We Offer: Employee discounts across our brands Friends and Family Discount App Award-winning training, apprenticeships and development programmes Health and wellbeing support Hybrid working with flexibility to support work–life balance An inclusive and diverse workplace, with employee networks and communities Start the best part of the journey with us. At SSP, we value diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects a wide range of backgrounds, skills and perspectives. #LI-HH1