Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

Company: Paul Boardman Associates
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Location: Manchester
Job Description:

An established and growing group is looking for a high-calibre FP&A Manager to join its finance team and play a key role in supporting continued growth.

This is a hands-on FP&A role for someone who wants to get close to the numbers, build robust financial models and provide meaningful commercial insight to senior management. It is not simply a reporting role.

The role

You will take ownership of core FP&A activity across the group, with particular emphasis on:

  • P&L analysis – understanding performance, trends, variances and profitability
  • Balance sheet – analysing financial position, working capital and key balance sheet drivers
  • Budgets & forecasting – leading the budgeting process and developing rolling forecasts
  • Cashflow – producing detailed cashflow forecasts and supporting effective cash management
  • Financial modelling – building sophisticated models to support growth, investment and strategic decision‑making
  • Scenario and sensitivity analysis
  • Management reporting and performance analysis
  • Identifying financial and commercial opportunities
  • Providing clear, insightful analysis to senior management

About you

Ideally, you will be:

  • A technically strong accountant with excellent understanding of the P&L, balance sheet and cashflow
  • Highly capable in Excel and financial modelling
  • Commercially minded and confident challenging assumptions
  • Analytical, curious and exceptionally comfortable working with data
  • Hands‑on and detail‑oriented – someone who builds and interrogates the numbers rather than simply reviewing reports
  • Comfortable working in a growing and evolving organisation
  • Able to communicate complex financial information clearly to operational and senior management

Salary: up to £80,000 + benefits

If you are an ACA-qualified accountant with strong FP&A, modelling and commercial finance experience and want a role where you can genuinely make an impact, we’d like to hear from you.

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Posted: August 18th, 2026