FP&A Manager (Manufacturing)

Marc Daniels is working with a growing manufacturing business to hire a FP&A Manager to design, build, and run the FP&A function from the ground up. This is a high-impact role for a commercially minded finance professional with strong manufacturing experience who wants to shape how the business plans, forecasts, and makes decisions.

The role

You will own the end-to-end setup of FP&A, creating the processes, models, and reporting that connect finance with operations, supply chain, and commercial teams.

Key responsibilities will include:

Designing and implementing the FP&A framework: annual budget, rolling forecasts, monthly re-forecasts, and long-range planning tailored to a manufacturing environment.

Building driver-based financial models for volume, mix, price, yield, scrap, labour, and overheads to support operational decision-making.

Leading monthly performance reviews with site/operations leaders, explaining variances (PPV, labour, efficiency, absorption, scrap) and driving actions.

Developing standard cost roll-ups, product and customer profitability analysis, and make-vs-buy / capacity scenario modelling.

Creating management packs, dashboards, and KPIs that give clear visibility of plant performance, margins, and cash.

Partnering with operations, supply chain, and commercial teams to support pricing, investment cases (CAPEX/ROI), and productivity programmes.

Establishing data sources, templates, and ways of working with GL/controlling/operations to ensure one version of the truth.

Coaching non-finance leaders on how to use FP&A outputs to run the business.

What you'll bring

Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)

Proven FP&A experience within manufacturing (ideally multi-site or complex BOM/standard cost environments).

Track record of setting up or significantly transforming FP&A processes, not just maintaining them.

Strong grasp of manufacturing P&L drivers: standard costing, variances, yield, OEE, capacity, and cost-to-serve.

Advanced Excel and modelling skills; experience with ERP (e.g. SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics) and BI tools (Power BI, etc.) is highly desirable.

Ability to translate complex operational data into clear, actionable insights for senior leaders.

Hands-on, pragmatic style with the confidence to challenge and influence across the business.