FP&A Manager

FP&A MANAGER / MANCHESTER / HYBRID/ £60,000-£70,000 PLUS BENEFITS

About the Team / Role

WEX is an innovative payments and technology company looking to forge the way in a rapidly changing environment, with a goal to simplify the business of doing business for our customers, freeing them to spend more time, with less worry, on the things they love. We are on a journey to build a consistent world class user experience across our products and services and leverage customer driven innovation across all of our strategic initiatives.

Due to continuous exciting expansion within the business we are seeking a FP&A Manager to join our team in Manchester, the successful candidate will be leading a team of leading individuals during a pivotal time for the business.

What’s on Offer?

• Highly Competitive salary of £60,000-£70,000 (dependant on experience)
• Annual company bonus
• 37.5 hour week- Monday to Friday, no evenings or weekends
• Hybrid working from our Manchester City Centre office (1 – 2days per week)
• Industry leading pension
• 25 days holidays plus bank holidays – with the opportunity to purchase additional holidays
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Discount & perks platform
• Employee wellbeing

How you’ll make an impact

• Overseeing the budgeting, forecasting and planning processes
• Develops financial models for P&L and mapping into consolidation tools

• Develops, interprets and implements financial concepts for financial planning and control.
• Gathers, analyses, prepares and summarizes recommendations for financial budget, quarterly forecasts and strategic plan for Europe Fleet P&L
• Records and analysis key KPI’s
• Coordinates and reviews headcount reporting and analysis while working with HR business partners to ensure accurate and complete source data in the system
• Owner of the technical analysis process to determine and evaluate present and future financial performance on P&L. 

• Oversees the periodic meetings with financials controllers of the various business units
• Understand and document the financial performance for the month end being able to challenge the financial controllers for accuracy of the figures and explain variances to forecast
• Coordinates and prepares consolidated monthly pack for Corporate and Business review
• Provide clear and concise commentary on functional P&L and cost bridges. Work closely with the Accounting department, HR and Finance Systems to create complete view of the business performance.
• Owns the monthly department expense packs review process and ensures accurate and timely distribution to budget holders
• Coordinates and reviews KPI reporting
• Managing analysis for risks and opportunities
• Owns the financial reporting and output of the (Microsoft Access & Alteryx) databases including margin databases

• Participates in automation and simplification of process and systems
• Ownership of Europe Fleet HFM mapping and consolidation into Corporate
• Owns the technical financial reporting process to Corporate Finance and liaise with Corporate team to ensure timely and accurate reporting
• Owner of Anaplan planning tool

• Motivate and develop members of team
• Actively support Director of FP&A and budget holders
• Direct and Prioritise team activities in line with business priorities

Experience you’ll bring

• A qualified accountant (ACA/ ACCA/ CIMA) and post qualification experience
• Experience of working in financial modelling and understanding of cost planning, ideally in a FP&A Manager role
• Previous leadership experience
• Excellent written and fluent verbal skills
• Experience in pan European business and corporate reporting
• Comfortable working within tight deadlines and turning information around quickly
• Strong organisation skills and self-review discipline
• Strong stakeholder management
• Ability to make quick and tough decisions

What’s next?

If you believe you have the passion to join our team as FP&A Manager wish to help grow WEX then please APPLY TODAY for immediate consideration

Due to the volume of applications received, unfortunately it is not possible to respond to each one individually, applicants that are shortlisted will be contacted within one week of application

We do not accept speculative CVs. Any CV received by WEX will be treated as a gift and eligible for an agency fee. PSL agencies should only send CVs if authorised to do so by the Talent Acquisition team.