FP&A Analyst
Overview:
Nomad Foods was formed in 2015 and with revenues of €2.6bn is the largest frozen food company in Europe. Nomad owns a portfolio of leading brands including Birds Eye, Findus and iglo, supplemented in 2018 with the purchase of Goodfellas Pizza and Aunt Bessie’s, and in 2021 with the purchase of Ledo and Frikom.
We manufacture and distribute a range of branded frozen food products across 22 European countries with the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Sweden and France representing our five largest markets.
The long-term goal of Nomad is to develop a global portfolio of best-in-class food brands by growing organically and through strategic M&A.
We are proposing that our new Shared Finance Centre will house both our Financial Accounting teams and our Financial Planning and Analysis Centre of Expertise.
Our vision is to build trusted, equal partnerships through the delivery of timely and valuable services that will ensure growth and business success for Nomad Foods. The team will deliver a step change in performance through a relentless focus on excellence in execution and continuous improvement, enabling us to simplify and standardise our processes and procedures, which in turn, enables quality decision-making, delights our customers and supports Nomad Food’s business objectives.
Our SU FP&A Analysts are responsible for preparation of weekly and monthly reporting and variance analysis of key metrics of the manufacturing site as well as supporting annual planning, forecasting. The SU FP&A Analyst will be responsible for developing and implementing analytical standards for reporting and modelling KPIs and as a key financial liaison, partnering with the various departments across the manufacturing site.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for providing weekly calculation and variance analysis of key metrics of the manufacturing site including but not limited to production volumes, labour costs, recoveries, fixed costs and transfer prices and their impact on the financial statements
- Review month end report & understand impact of drivers on budget/forecast
- Responsible for assimilating data from multiple systems and stakeholders to calculate results and identify trends for key KPIs, actuals, budgets and forecasts
- Enhance data governance processes by improving the quality and integrity of data collected, analysis performed, and reports generated
- Run simulations of various “what-if” scenarios using insight and critical thinking to evaluate and recommend solutions
- Assist in developing forecasting models
- Support the FP&A Manager in producing routine and ad hoc financial models to support leadership, FBPs and FP&A Group in decision making
- Facilitate standardisation and sharing of best practice across the Shared Finance team
- Contribute to continuous improvement of systems and processes
- Support automation and enterprise consolidation of data used in monthly, quarterly, and annual performance reports
- Provide guidance to FP&A Associate as required
- Ensure SOX control environment is maintained. Support all audit requests
Qualifications:
Essential- Bachelor’s degree
- Part qualified accountant (ACCA, ACA, CIMA, or international equivalent). Expected to be at finalist stage
- Minimum 3 years of relevant experience in reporting and forecasting
- Experience with planning systems and reporting technology
- Experience with business intelligence tools and developing data visualisations
- SAP
- Very strong analytical and forecasting abilities
- Previous Finance experience within an FMCG business
- Manufacturing / Supply Chain Experience
- Strong modelling and solid database skills required
- Supervisory experience of more junior staff members
- Positive attitude, pro-active, growth mindset, work to solve problems
- Attention to detail
- Excellent communication and written skills with the ability to engage people at all levels both internally and externally
- Ability to constructively challenges assumptions and thinking
- Impactful report writing and presentation skills
- Possible line management responsibilities