Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

A LITTLE INFORMATION ABOUT US!

Foods Connected is an award winning cloud based software platform that helps retailers and food companies across the world manage their supply chain, quality control, and trading and planning management. Our software solutions are currently utilised by 10 of the largest food retailers in the world. As a team, we provide tools that help our customers manage their processes in a fast and efficient way and provide real-time visibility and reporting on what is happening in their business.

At Foods Connected, we recognise that our employees are our most important asset and we value creating a great working environment to ensure our team enjoy, working together and solving problems for our customers. Whether we are in the middle of a fast and intense development sprint, on a Teams call discussing project statuses, it is important to us that our employees are happy and delivering the best possible result for our customers.

We're always keen to welcome talented individuals to join our expanding team. So if you're driven, detail oriented, and passionate about working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment... we're looking for you!

This is a newly created, high-impact role at the heart of the Foods Connected finance function. Reporting directly to the CFO, you will act as a strategic and commercial partner across the business, providing the analysis, insight, and challenge that enables confident decision-making at every level.

You will be equally comfortable modelling a new commercial opportunity, preparing board-ready departmental performance packs, interrogating CRM and product data for revenue insight, and supporting the integration of acquired businesses into the financial infrastructure.

This role spans the full FP&A and business partnering remit: analytical depth paired with the communication skills and confidence to engage with senior stakeholders credibly.

• Own the annual business planning and reforecasting cycle, working closely with the CFO and senior leadership to build a coherent, data-driven financial plan across the group.
• Develop and maintain the group's financial model, including ARR drivers, revenue bridge analysis, cost base evolution, and multi-currency consolidation.
• Lead commercial analysis to support pricing decisions, customer profitability assessments and strategic initiatives.
• Produce monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting packs for the CFO, Board, and investor stakeholders - translating financial data into clear, actionable narrative.

• Maintain and enhance a suite of departmental performance dashboards and scorecards, ensuring department heads have timely, accurate, and meaningful data to manage their functions.
• Partner with heads of Sales, Customer Success, Implementation, Product, and Operations to define KPIs, track performance, and identify variances requiring action.
• Conduct regular variance analysis against budget and prior periods, providing clear commentary and recommendations.

• Extract, transform, and analyse data from CRM systems (Hub Spot), resource platforms, and operational systems to build a complete commercial picture of business performance.
• Produce recurring and ad-hoc analyses covering pipeline health, ARR movement, churn, customer retention, implementation throughput, and professional services utilisation.

• Support the financial integration of acquired businesses and consolidation into group reporting, and management account integration.
• Build financial models and analysis for due diligence purposes, contributing to assessment of acquisition targets alongside…