The FP&A Manager is responsible for delivering high‑quality financial planning, forecasting, and performance management outcomes across business units or client engagements.
The role leads FP&A execution by managing planning cycles, producing forward‑looking insights, and partnering with business stakeholders to support decision‑making. The FP&A Manager embeds standard processes, analytical rigor, and digital tools to ensure accurate forecasts, transparent performance views, and value‑adding insights.
This role acts as a key enabler of the future‑ready FP&A model, supporting transformation initiatives, uplifting team capability, and translating financial analysis into clear, actionable narratives.
Job Goals
- Deliver reliable planning and forecast outputs
- Ensure accurate, timely budgets, forecasts, and long‑range plans.
- Support scenario modelling and forecasting in response to business changes.
- Support business performance management
- Provide meaningful insights and analysis to finance leaders and business partners.
- Help shift FP&A from historical reporting towards forward‑looking insight.
- Ensure performance transparency
- Deliver clear visibility of drivers, variances, and outcomes across P&L, cash flow, and KPIs.
- Produce consistent management reporting and performance commentary.
- Enable digital and insight‑led FP&A ways of working
- Leverage automation, analytics, and dashboards to improve efficiency and insight quality.
- Reduce manual analysis and increase value‑added interpretation.
- Drive continuous improvement
- Identify opportunities to standardize, simplify, and improve FP&A processes.
- Contribute to productivity improvement and cost‑to‑value outcomes.
- Coach and develop FP&A team members in analytical, commercial, and storytelling skills.
- Build a strong pipeline of future FP&A leaders.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage delivery of core FP&A processes, including:
- Annual Budgeting & Rolling Forecasts
- Strategic & Long‑Range Planning support
- Management Reporting & Performance Reviews
- Cost, Margin, and Profitability Analysis
- Cash Flow and Working Capital Analysis
- Scenario and What‑If Modelling
- Ensure adherence to global FP&A standards, calendars, assumptions, and methodologies.
- Prepare high‑quality forecast assumptions, variance analysis, and performance narratives.
- Support governance of inputs, data quality, and analytical consistency.
- Act as a key point of contact for business and finance stakeholders during planning and performance cycles.
Digital & Analytical & Transformation Enablement
- Use analytics and BI tools (e.g. Power BI) to deliver insightful, user‑friendly dashboards and reports.
- Support adoption of driver‑based planning and connected planning solutions.
- Partner with transformation teams to:
- Automate recurring analyses and reports.
- Improve data integration and planning efficiency.
- Enhance predictive and scenario‑based insights.
- Track improvements in forecast accuracy, cycle times, and reporting efficiency.
Strategic Leadership & Stakeholder Management
- Partner with business, operations, and finance stakeholders to understand performance drivers.
- Provide clear explanations of financial results, trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Translate analysis into concise, decision‑ready insights for leadership forums.
- Support senior finance leaders with materials for performance reviews and executive updates.
Capability & People Development
- Manage and coach FP&A analysts and senior analysts.
- Conduct regular performance feedback and skills development.
- Build team capability across:
- Financial modelling and analysis
- Business partnering and communication
- Data, analytics, and automation literacy
- Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and insight‑driven thinking.
Performance, Risk & Control Management
- Support tracking of KPIs related to forecast accuracy, planning effectiveness, and insight impact.
- Assist in monitoring benefits realization for cost initiatives and strategic programs.
- Help maintain clear linkage between targets, performance outcomes, and financial results.
Functional & Technical Skills
- Strong experience across FP&A activities, including:
- Budgeting, Forecasting, and Planning
- Financial Modelling and Variance Analysis
- Performance Management and KPI Reporting
- Cost and Profitability Analysis
- Cash Flow Analysis
- Solid understanding of business drivers and financial outcomes.
- Experience working within standardized FP&A operating models.
- Proficiency in analytics and visualization tools (Power BI, Excel).
- Familiarity with planning and EPM platforms (e.g. Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, Adaptive).
- Good understanding of data quality, controls, and planning integration.
Future-Ready & Behavioral Competencies
- Analytical Rigor: Applies structured thinking to complex financial problems.
- Business Acumen: Understands how financial drivers link with business outcomes.
- Insight & Storytelling: Communicates analysis clearly and effectively.
- Digital Mindset: Embraces analytics, automation, and new tools.
- Collaboration: Works effectively across finance and business teams.
- Accountability: Owns deliverables and drives high‑quality outcomes.
Performance Metrics / KPIs
- Forecast accuracy and variance quality
- Timeliness of budgets and forecasts
- Quality and clarity of management reporting
- Stakeholder satisfaction
- Productivity and automation benefits
- Team capability development
Qualifications & Experience
- Education: CA, CPA, ACCA, MBA (Finance), or equivalent.
- Experience: 8–12 years in finance, including 3+ years in FP&A or performance management roles.
- Demonstrated experience in:
- Budgeting, forecasting, and management reporting.
- Business partnering and analytical insight delivery.
- Supporting digital and analytics‑led finance initiatives.
- Experience in multi‑stakeholder or multi‑country environments preferred.
