FP&A Analyst (Vets Finance)

Location: We welcome applications from those looking for hybrid working, based 2 days our Handforth (Cheshire) Office.

About the Role

We’re on a mission to create the best pet care business in the world. And that means offering a whole ecosystem of services - from diet and lifestyle to grooming and veterinary care. All from one convenient, accessible source. We believe in the power of pets. They make us think and they make us care. And because they give us their best, we’re looking for people to help us to give them ours. And that’s where you come in.

Working as an FP&A Analyst, you will support the business in making the right decisions to achieve long term success. Specifically, this includes owning the relationship with several cost centre managers (and their departments) and working with them to drive and maintain good cost control over headcount and discretionary spend. Developing and maintaining efficient and effective processes and reporting to support good cost control (OPEX and CAPEX) will also be important.

Key Responsibilities – What you’ll be doing

• Provide insight and analysis to support the forecasting cycle for the Vet Group, including the annual budget and reforecasts
• Support the period end process for cost centre reporting, including analysis of spend, reforecasting and production of reports to be shared with cost centre owners and the vet leadership team
• Analysing and categorising all capex spend
• Support the periodic reporting process producing updates on year to date spend and forecast spend for the remainder of the year
• Provide analysis and support to ad-hoc projects being undertaken by the FP&A team

About you – What you’ll bring to the Role

Essential

• Part or fully qualified
• Excel and Powerpoint skills – ability to manipulate data efficiently and present information effectively
• Month end execution – knowledge of core accounting concepts e.g. accruals and prepayments, processing journals, review of relevant P&L codes for accuracy and reasonableness

Desirable

• Previous Cost Centre (finance management of) experience – reporting of actuals and influencing budget submissions
• Business Partnership
• Experience of using SAP

Pets just see people. They aren’t biased and they don’t discriminate. We take our inspiration from pets, and we value and respect difference in all its forms. Our aim is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and every colleague can help us achieve this. We encourage our people to be themselves so even if your skills and experience don’t perfectly align, if you think you can make a unique contribution through your values and behaviours, we want to hear from you.