Senior FP&A Analyst - 1 year contract

Your Role

The Senior FP&A Analyst will play a key role in supporting financial planning, forecasting, performance management, and business decision-making. This role will partner closely with Finance, Commercial, Supply Chain, Marketing, and other cross-functional stakeholders to provide high-quality financial insights, challenge assumptions, identify risks and opportunities, and support delivery of business objectives.

Your Key Responsibilities

Financial Planning, Forecasting and Reporting

• Support monthly forecast, quarterly outlook, annual budget, and long-range planning cycles.
• Analyse actual performance versus budget, forecast, and prior year, clearly explaining key drivers of variance.
• Maintain financial planning models and ensure accuracy, consistency, and timeliness of financial submissions.
• Support month-end closing analysis, accrual review, and reporting packs where required.

Performance Management and Business Insights

• Provide timely, actionable insights on sales, gross margin, operating expenses, cash, working capital, and other key business metrics.
• Identify risks and opportunities and support the development of mitigation or acceleration actions.
• Build and enhance reporting tools, dashboards, and self-service analytics to improve visibility and decision-making.
• Translate complex data into clear business narratives for senior stakeholders.

Business Partnering

• Partner with commercial and functional teams to understand business drivers and provide financial guidance.
• Support stakeholder discussions by challenging assumptions and ensuring decisions are grounded in robust financial analysis.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve forecast accuracy, strengthen financial discipline, and drive value creation.
• Support preparation of materials for business reviews, leadership meetings, and decision-making forums.

Process Improvement and Governance

• Drive continuous improvement in planning, reporting, and performance management processes.
• Improve data quality, automation, and standardization across FP&A deliverables.
• Ensure compliance with internal finance processes, controls, and reporting timelines.
• Support finance transformation initiatives, system enhancements, and ad hoc projects as required.

Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related field.
• Minimum 4–6 years of relevant experience in FP&A, commercial finance, business controlling, or financial analysis; FMCG or consumer goods experience is preferred.
• Strong financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and management reporting capability.
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills; SAP, S/4HANA, or other planning/reporting tools are preferred. Knowing Power BI will be a plus.
• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to connect financial data to business performance and strategic priorities.
• High attention to detail, strong ownership, and ability to manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines.
• Fluent English communication skills; additional regional language capability is an advantage.
• Willing to travel as and when required.

Who We Are Looking For

• A commercially minded finance professional who can move beyond reporting to provide insight, challenge, and recommendations.
• A proactive self-starter with a bias for action, strong sense of ownership, and drive for results.
• A strong collaborator who can build trust and work effectively across functions, markets, and levels.
• An analytical problem solver who is comfortable with complexity, ambiguity, and changing priorities.
• A continuous improvement mindset, with curiosity to simplify processes, improve tools, and raise the quality of financial decision support.
• A resilient, agile, and values-led team member who contributes positively to a high-performance culture.