Job Description

Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you.

As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.

To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilientand positiveto succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaborationand demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact

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Senior FP&A Reporting & Planning Manager

Role Purpose

The Senior FP&A Reporting & Planning Manager sits within the FP&A team and hasend‑to‑endaccountability for UK&I financial planning, forecasting and management reporting, ensuringhigh‑quality,timelyanddecision‑relevantoutputs for senior leadership and Group.

The role owns the integration of actuals, forecasts,budgetsandfinancialstrategic plans, providing a single, coherent financial view of performance and outlook across the UK &Republic of Ireland Operating as a senior FP&A lead, the role combines strong analytical capability with robust planning governance, clear financialstorytellingand effectivecross‑functionalbusiness partnering.

The role is a key partner to the Head of FP&A&CFO, supportingenterprise‑leveldecision making through insight, scenario analysis and clear articulation of risks and opportunities. The focus of the role is on ownership, clarity, and continuous improvement, ensuring plans and reports are trusted, explainable, and consistently applied across the business.

Key Responsibilities

1. Financial Planning & Budget Leadership

•Own the coordination and consolidation of the UK&I Financial Strategic Planacross a rolling 3–5 year horizon, ensuring plans are robust, well governed and clearly financialised, with explicit visibility oftrade‑offs, priorities and strategic financial decisions
• Lead the annual Budget process, ensuring adriver‑basedplan,with clear ownership, appropriate challenge and stretching but achievable targets.
• Define and enforce planning standards,assumptionsand timelines to ensure consistency and comparability across functions and segments.
• Ensure all plans are clearly linked to business strategy, valuedriversand operational assumptions.
• Drive continuous improvement in planning processes,toolsand governance, with atenacious desire to simply and automate.

2. Forecasting, Reporting & Performance Insight

•Own and continually evolve the monthlyin‑yearforecast and quarterly Group forecastprocess and deliverables, actively challenging assumptions,risksand opportunities to ensure outputs are robust,that the process drives business outcomesandensures action

•Work closely with the business to build credible,driver‑basedP&L and cash forecasts, including clear scenarios and explicit decision points.

•Lead insightful analysis of monthly actual performance versus key comparatives, delivering a clear “so what?” narrative that highlights implications,trade‑offsand recommended actions.

•Design, develop and deliver a relevant and insightful management reporting suite, partnering with the Head of FP&Aandworking with the FP&A Data Managerto ensure reportingremainsfit‑for‑purposeand aligned to strategic priorities as the business evolves.

•Own the financial narrative and performance story, ensuring transparent,well‑understoodbridges between actuals, forecast and plan, underpinned by clear drivers and assumptions.

•Actively challenge and refresh existing reporting and forecasting approaches, avoiding “business as usual” and ensuring insight, relevance and focus on what matters most.

•Drive a continuous improvement,simplificationand automation mindset, with a clear ambition to reduce manual effort and dependency through improved systems, datamodelsand automated reporting solutions.

•Proactively incorporate external benchmarks, competitor insights and market context to strengthen performance analysis, stretchthinkingand support seniordecision‑making

3. Governance, Integration & Financial Storytelling

• Act as owner of planning and reporting governanceacross UK&I, ensuring strong linkages between actuals, forecasts,budgetsand strategic plans.
• Ensure P&L, BalanceSheetand Cashflow are fully integrated and consistently reflected across all planning horizons.
•Maintainclear documentation of key assumptions, judgements and sensitivities underpinning plans and forecasts.
• Ensure outputs are transparent,explainableand suitable for senior leadership and Group scrutiny.
• Drive standardisation and simplification, reducing complexity and key person dependency.

4. Leadership & Business Partnering

•Lead and develop our FP&A Data Managerwith a focus onnurturing their development andcreating one central hub forReporting

• Lead and develop theoutsourced FP&A resource (Genpact x1), ensuring routine and structured activities are delivered efficiently and to a high standard.
• Partner closely with Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, R&D and Group Finance / Group FP&Ato deliver integrated financial plans.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the Head of FP&AandCFO, providingad‑hocanalysis, scenariomodellingand decision support.
• Contribute to finance transformation and strategic projects as a senior FP&A representative.
• Support the UK&I Finance communication agenda, strengthening collaboration, engagement and ahigh‑performancefinance culture.

Key Relationships

• Head of FP&A
• CFO and MD
• Wider FP&A Team
• Wider Finance Function
• Group Finance / Group FP&A
• Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain and R&D Leadership
• Outsourced FP&A resource (Genpact)
• Finance Transformation

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Advanced capability in Excel,PowerPointand Power BI
•Goodexperiencein FP&A, planning,forecastingand management reportingwithin a complex organisation.
•Experienceof consolidating and integrating financial plans across multiple stakeholders and data sources.
• Ability to simplify complex financial information and communicate clear insights to senior,non‑financestakeholders.
• Proven ability to set standards, apply judgement and deliver to tight deadlines across multiple workstreams.

Desirable

• Qualified orpart‑qualifiedaccountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent).
• ExperienceoperatinginFMCG
• Exposure toSAP/OneStream

What Success Looks Like

• Plans, forecasts and reports are trusted, coherent anddecision‑relevant
• Senior leadership has a clear line of sight from strategy to financial outcomes.
• Performance movements,risksand opportunities are clearly understood with no surprises.
• Planning and reporting processes are efficient, wellgovernedand continuously improving.
• FP&Aoperatesas a single, aligned team with strong ownership and accountability.

pladis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law.

We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List. If you are a recruitment agency and wish to submit candidate to be considered for this vacancy, you must have agreed to, and signed, our terms of business.
We will not accept CVs from any other sources other than those currently on our PSL. We will not pay a fee for any candidate that has not been represented by a provider on our PSL.