FP&A Manager Northern Europe
Bureau Veritas · Manchester
Role: FP&A Manager Northern Europe
Location: Wythenshawe, Manchester - Hybrid working
Package: Competitive salary + Bonus + Car Allowance + Up to 12% Pension, Health Care, and other flexible benefits
Are you an experienced FP&A professional with a track record of supporting complex, international organisations? Do you enjoy partnering with senior stakeholders, translating data into actionable insight, and driving business performance through robust planning, forecasting and analysis? If you're someone who enjoys challenging the status quo, improving reporting capabilities and helping leaders make better decisions, we'd love to hear from you.
Role Purpose: The FP&A Manager supports Northern Europe Chief Finance Officer in delivering clear, reliable financial insight that strengthens decision‑making across the business. The role ensures disciplined financial planning, high‑quality performance analysis, and strong governance in line with Bureau Veritas standards and absolutes. A key focus is partnering with operational leaders, performance director, and finance business partners to drive profitable growth, cost discipline, and sustainable performance.
Key Responsibilities:
Planning, Forecasting & Budgeting
- Lead the preparation and consolidation of the annual budget, quarterly forecasts, and monthly landings.
- Manage reporting cycles, output formats, and insight expectations for quarterly forecast and budget reporting packs.
- Ensure all assumptions are realistic, operationally grounded, and aligned with Group guidelines.
- Develop and maintain financial models that support scenario planning (risks and opportunities), operational reviews, and strategic projects.
Reporting, Data & Insight Strategy
- Develop a consistent reporting framework across North Europe - covering KPIs, dashboards, P&L, cash and balance sheet - ensuring clarity, timeliness, and alignment with Group reporting standard
- Develop a data strategy that enhances data integrity, transparency, and accessibility across Finance and the business.
- Improve data models, reporting structures, and master‑data governance to ensure accuracy and consistency.
- Lead automation initiatives to reduce manual reporting and improve efficiency (e.g., workflow tools, dashboarding, BI systems, AI).
- Collaborate closely with Operations, Performance, IT, Business Partners and Group/Europe Reporting teams to ensure alignment of systems, processes, and data sources.
- Drive a culture of insight: enabling teams to use data effectively, understand business drivers, and act on performance trends.
Performance Management
- Analyse monthly performance across entities, business unit and product lines.
- Produce monthly performance packs, KPI dashboards, and variance analyses with clear, concise commentary.
- Ensure performance packs, dashboards, and KPIs deliver high‑quality commentary and value‑driven insights.
- Conduct comprehensive contract profitability assessments, identifying top‑performing, underperforming, and loss‑making contracts to understand performance drivers and support targeted improvement actions.
- Review headcount KPIs, utilisation, overtime, and related workforce performance metrics.
- Analyse cash and working‑capital performance and lead optimisation initiatives.
Overhead & Central Cost Management
- Lead the budgeting, forecasting, and tracking of overheads and central costs across all North Europe functions.
- Optimise cross‑business cost allocations to ensure fairness, transparency, and accuracy.
- Monitor actuals vs. budget, highlighting variances, risks, and opportunities.
- Drive initiatives to improve productivity and cost discipline.
- Act as finance partner to functional leaders (HR, Sales & Marketing, Finance, Legal, Management) and owners of central cost areas such as real estate, fleet management, and procurement.
Experience & Skills Required
- Qualified Accountant with significant post-qualified experience in FP&A
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Experience operating within a large, complex, international matrix organisation, ideally supporting multiple business units, legal entities and senior stakeholders.
- Proven track record of leading planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes
- Passionate about driving performance, improving processes and leveraging data and technology
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong business intelligence capability, with the ability to transform complex data into clear, interactive, and visually intuitive dashboards
- Strong digital literacy with the ability to utilise AI and automation tools to improve productivity, reporting and business processes
- Advanced Excel proficiency
- Exposure to SQL or data tools is desirable, but not essential
What’s in it for you?
- Competitive salary
- Car Allowance / Company Car
- 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays with the option to buy or sell 5 holidays, plus an option to carry over 5 days
- Combined employee/employer pension contributions of up to 12%
- Flexible working
- Flexible benefits scheme, to suit what is important to you including Life Cover, Private health care, Dental Care, GymFlex, Techscheme, Enhanced Maternity/Paternity policy, Give as You Earn scheme & Travel Insurance
- Health and Wellbeing Support through; Mental Health First aiders, Employee Assistance programme & Smart Health services
- Working for an Industry leading global Inspection company
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