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Abel & Cole

Financial Planning Analyst

Posted 7 Days Ago
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In-Office
Pitney, Somerset, England
Mid level
In-Office
Pitney, Somerset, England
Mid level
Support budgeting, rolling forecasts, and long-range plans; build and maintain financial models and management reports; analyse variances, revenue, costs, margins and cash flow; partner cross-functionally to translate data into actionable insights; support strategic initiatives, investment cases, pricing decisions, and automation of FP&A processes.
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Role Summary

We are looking for someone who is excited about the prospect of building a career in using data to drive business performance. This role isn’t just sifting through numbers but rather asking the ‘so what’, to help teams push forward, making positive change to drive and protect sales, profit, and ways of working. The FP&A Analyst supports financial planning, forecasting, and performance analysis to help drive informed business decisions. The role is responsible for producing accurate budgets, forecasts, and management reports, analysing financial performance and key business drivers, and partnering with stakeholders to provide clear, actionable insights. The FP&A Analyst plays a key role in improving financial visibility, supporting strategic initiatives, and enhancing financial processes and controls.

With so many inspiring and passionate members of the Abel & Cole family, the successful candidate must have the ability to build effective relationships across the business.

What you’ll be getting up to:

Financial Planning & Forecasting

  • Prepare and maintain annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and long-range financial plans
  • Analyse variances vs. budget, forecast, and prior periods
  • Build and maintain financial models to support planning and scenario analysis

Management Reporting & Analysis

  • Produce monthly management reports, dashboards, and KPIs
  • Provide insightful commentary on financial performance and key business drivers
  • Analyse revenue, costs, margins, headcount, and cash flow trends

Business Partnering

  • Strong business partnering capability across commercial, marketing, operational, finance, and data teams
  • Comfortable working cross-functionally in different capacities — leading initiatives, building solutions, or contributing to broader projects
  • Translate financial data into clear, actionable insights for non-finance stakeholders
  • Support investment cases, pricing decisions, and strategic initiatives

Data & Systems

  • Experience analysing data from large, structured business systems (e.g. SAP, NetSuite, D365, Salesforce)
  • Ability to design or build analytical tools and models that feed into business systems and forecasting platforms
  • Maintain and improve financial models, reports, and planning tools
  • Ensure data accuracy and consistency across systems
  • Support automation and process improvements within FP&A

Ad Hoc & Strategic Support

  • Support board or senior leadership presentations
  • Perform ad hoc financial analysis as required
  • Assist with business cases and strategic projects

What we are looking for:

Technical Skills

  • Demonstrated ability to initiate, lead, and deliver transformational improvements to business processes and commercial performance
  • Experience of conducting analyses using the outputs of large structured systems (e.g., SAP, NetSuite, D365, Salesforce) and/or experience of designing analytical tools which can provide inputs to such systems and forecasting tools
  • Strong financial modelling and analytical skills
  • Advanced Excel (pivot tables, lookups, formulas)
  • Understanding of P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow

Soft Skills

  • Strong commercial acumen and business mindset
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Ability to manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment
  • High attention to detail with the ability to see the “big picture”

Qualifications & Experience

  • 2–4+ years of experience in FP&A, finance, consulting, audit, or any other transferrable analytical discipline
  • No formal accounting qualification required, but also open to qualified or part-qualified accountants
  • Study support is available for anyone looking to undertake an accountancy qualification with us

What we offer

  • To undertake the role full time: Monday - Friday, 37.5 hours per week (flexible timings)
  • To undertake the role part time: 28.0-37.5 hours per week (days and times by mutual agreement)
  • 33 days inclusive of bank holidays (FTE Pro-rata)
  • A free box of fruit and veg every week (it’s pretty delicious!) alongside company discount of up to 35%
  • Cycle to Work Scheme.
  • Grants for sport, performing arts, education and non-vocational courses.
  • Contributory pension scheme

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