Finance Manager FP&A

Job Introduction

We are looking for a Finance Manager FP & A to join our Finance Team. This role sits within our dedicated Planning & Analysis function, reporting into the senior finance manager and taking responsibility for the management of a finance analyst.

The Financial Planning & Analysis team works as a catalyst to the finance function. Whether that is through providing insight and analysis to the business partnering teams or simply ensuring that the tasks of the finance function run as smoothly as possible. We operate as a centre of excellence for the wider finance function, offering a wide ranging variety of support including standardisation and best practice principles, data interrogation and analysis, macro-economic insight and much more.

A bit about the role

The successful person in our Finance Manager position will ensure the accurate and timely production of our management accounts on a monthly basis, ensuring that the finance function are aware of and deliver to their respective month end deadlines. This includes having holistic knowledge of our P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash flow, providing insight where relevant to our Finance Director.

The role will also be pivotal in our annual planning cycle. The production of our annual budget, 5 year plan and rolling forecast will sit within this role’s responsibilities, managing the end to end process and delivering through others. Intrinsically linked to this will be our investment portfolio to which the role is expected to work closely with our investment finance team to understand the implications of the portfolio on our budget and 5 year plan on a monthly basis

A bit about you

The chosen individual in this role will have a recognised accountancy qualification (CIMA/ACCA/ICAEW or international equivalent), experience of across a broad spread of finance areas. The successful candidate will have a high standard of accuracy with excellent attention to detail. Alongside this ability to work under pressure and being commercially aware with the ability to appreciate the impact of decisions on financials is key.

A bit about us

Selfridges is a shop run on imagination: a place where the world’s most covetable brands combine with the most extraordinary spectacles, events and ideas for an experience like no other.

The story began when Harry Gordon Selfridge first arrived in London from Chicago in 1906 with his heart set on opening his dream store. With his revolutionary understanding of publicity and the theatre of retail, Selfridges Oxford Street opened its doors for the first time in 1909. The founder’s spirit of innovation and creativity lives on through its owners today. Since 2003, W. Galen Weston and his family have owned and operated the business, which now includes two stores in Manchester, one in Birmingham, plus selfridges.com and the Selfridges App which both deliver to over 130 countries.

In 2016 Selfridges was the first ever store to be awarded the title of ‘World’s Best Sustainability Campaign by a Department Store’ at the IGDS Global Department Store Summit, in-line with its focus on buying better and inspiring change. For an unprecedented three consecutive occasions in a row (2010, 2012 & 2014) Selfridges also won the coveted ‘Best Department Store in the World’ award, underlining its place at the forefront of retail.