Head of FP&A, Management Accounts & Business Partnering
10 hours ago
Newton Aycliffe
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. • 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., • 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, • Reporting issued to timetable, • Forecast bias and error reduced, • Decisions supported by quantified insight, • Actions have owners and due dates, • Manual reporting effort reduced, • 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 #J-18808-Ljbffr