FP&A Manager | Edinburgh

Recruiter: Rutherford Cross

Employer: Dobbies Garden Centre

Location: Edinburgh

Contract type: Permanent

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About the opportunity

For 150 years, the Dobbies name has stood for quality horticulture. During this time Dobbies have been proud to provide the very best products and expert advice to gardeners throughout the UK. Today Dobbies is the UK's largest Garden Centre retailer with stores across Scotland, England and Northern Ireland

About the role

Dobbies Garden Centres are seeking to recruit an FP&A Manager where you will work closely with senior stakeholders to increase the company’s efficiency and profitability by assisting with the formulation of both the medium and long-term financial budgets and measuring performance (both financial and non-financial) against these targets.

Duties include

• Preparation of key weekly and daily commercial reports to present financial results and KPIs to senior stakeholders, regional managers, and business divisions.
• Review and provide commentary on month-end cost performance to support the Regional Managers understand cost variances vs budget
• Support the Financial Reporting team with the assessing and explaining of month-end financial results and store performance, as well as preparing reports and attendance at monthly regional management meetings.

About the individual

This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified accountant that will get involved in mentoring/managing a team, as well as work with key stakeholders. You will have a proven track record of excellent organisational skills with strong attention to detail and strong interpersonal skills. You will also have a commercial mindset having worked on and prepared models to help with business decisions.

What to do next

To find out more or see a full Position Profile, please contact their retained advisor, Will Dodds

Please note that any direct or third party approaches will be sent to Rutherford Cross for review and assessment.

Rutherford Cross is an equal opportunities advocate and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status or pregnancy and maternity.