Head of FP&A, Management Accounts & Business Partnering
To lead planning, performance insight and business partnering so leaders understand performance, anticipate outcomes and take actions that improve value. Newton Aycliffe Full Time
The Danesmoor Group is one of the UK's leading kitchen and bedroom businesses. We're a fifth generation, family‑owned company with a long track record, but with a clear focus on what is next. Our ambition is to combine the stability, investment and long term thinking of a heritage business with the pace, mindset and capability of a modern, digital first organisation.
With a turnover of c.£70m and a strong reputation for service, innovation, design‑led products and advanced UK manufacturing, we've built a solid platform across trade and retail channels. Today, the focus is firmly on the next stage of growth.
The group operates across multiple routes to market and audiences:
- PWS – a market‑leading trade distributor operating at scale across the UK.
- Life Kitchens – a fast‑growing kitchen manufacturer with a premium consumer brand with showrooms in Waterloo, Wimbledon and York, alongside established B2B trade channels.
Together, this creates a genuinely interesting and complex environment spanning B2B and B2C, trade and retail, design, manufacturing and distribution – all within one group.
To lead planning, performance insight and business partnering so leaders understand performance, anticipate outcomes and take actions that improve value.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the annual budget, rolling forecast, long-range plan, scenario modelling and consolidation process.
- Lead delivery of monthly management accounts, executive MI and the financial input to Board reporting.
- Translate results into driver-based insight across price, volume, mix, margin, labour, overhead, working capital and cash.
- Set standards for business-unit review packs, commentary, risks and opportunities, actions and benefits tracking.
- Lead, coach and allocate the Finance Business Partner team across the five business units.
- Own management KPI definitions and sponsor reporting simplification and automation.
Core Outputs
- Group and BU management accounts
- Annual budget and rolling forecast
- Executive and Board MI draft
- Scenario and sensitivity models
- BU review packs and action logs
- KPI dictionary and reporting roadmap
Measures of Success
- Reporting issued to timetable
- Forecast bias and error reduced
- Decisions supported by quantified insight
- Actions have owners and due dates
- Manual reporting effort reduced
Experience, qualifications and behaviours
- Qualified accountant, ACA, ACCA or CIMA
- Senior FP&A and management reporting experience in a multi-entity group
- Strong modelling, forecasting and scenario-planning capability, including the ability to combine multiple data sources for data modelling and insight
- Commercially credible business partner and practical problem solver, able to challenge constructively and turn complex issues into clear actions
- Experienced manager and coach of qualified or part-qualified accountants
- Manufacturing, distribution, stock and margin experience preferred
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