It’s a great time to join our team, as a growing and scaling retailer with a twist, working and innovating together helps us realise our purpose to ‘make every cruise better’.

About the role:

Here at Harding+, we are currently recruiting for an FP&A Manager to join our team, this is an exciting and challenging role with a broad remit across all FP&A activities within the business. The key elements of the role encompass:

Planning: ownership and development of financial models to enable rigorous business planning and decision making

Reporting: production of and supporting in development & automation of executive and commercial reporting

Analysis: provision of robust financial analysis to support business initiatives and opportunities, together with providing robust challenge through a business partnering approach

Based in Avonmouth on a hybrid working basis – 2/3 days per week

Compensation – competitive salary, bonus scheme, pension, 4 x life assurance, healthcare cash plan, 26 days annual leave(plus the opportunity to buy an additional 5 days)

What you will be doing:

Annual budget / 5-year business plan / quarterly reforecasting:

• Full ownership of input assumptions, models and output for P&L, balance sheet and cash flow
• Working with stakeholders across the business to agree assumptions, providing robust challenge and analysis where required
• Periodic review of actual performance versus budget/5-year plan/forecast to analyse variances and update assumptions in models where applicable
• Support Commercial Finance Director in developing best practice models and reporting for all planning and forecasting activities and seek to continually improve processes and output through our FP&A software (Vena)
• Support Commercial Finance Director with ad hoc forecasting and planning for key strategic and tactical initiatives

Reporting:

• Ownership of weekly Executive Board reporting pack
• Ownership of FP&A contributions to monthly management accounts reporting pack
• Support Commercial Finance Director in ongoing development and improving analytical content of weekly and monthly Board reporting
• Cruise line reporting – creation of packs for both internal and external monthly/quarterly reviews/quarterly true-ups

Investment appraisal:

• Ownership of investment appraisal models for new business opportunities, including capital expenditure
• Implement process for post-investment appraisal analysis / tracking

Business Partnering: Business Partner to COO and his Retail Operations team to include:

• Building partnerships and maintaining strong relationships with senior managers and their teams to enable robust challenge of performance
• Build out existing reporting suite and improve the impact and understanding of financial reporting on business performance
• Providing analysis and delivering insight that links financial reports to business strategies
• Providing effective commercial process, or initiating change, to ensure key commercial and financial targets are delivered

Management:

• Line management, coaching and development of 3 direct reports

About you:

• Significant experience in budgeting, forecasting and financial modelling
• ACA, CIMA, or ACCA qualified with post-qualification experience in a similar FP&A/commercial role
• Advanced Excel skills; comfortable with handling very large data sets
• Excellent attention to detail whilst maintaining the ability to step back and see the bigger picture
• Inquisitive and challenging mindset; a curiosity to understand more and constantly question the status quo
• Energetic and keen to identify how we can be doing things better or adding value
• Proactive, able to plan and manage own workload whilst achieving tight deadlines
• Ability to work and communicate with non-financial executives and managers

Key Attributes – trust, collaboration, respect, passion, drive, resilience

About us:

Harding+ is the only 100% dedicated cruise retailer, proudly partnering with 12 cruise line operators globally, across more than 80+ cruise ships either in operation or under contract. Our mission is simple: make every cruise better. We operate over 300 retail shops across 80+ ships, covering 17,000m² of retail space and handling 6.6 million transactions annually.

Our team includes over 1,300 onboard team members and more than 270 landside employees, we stay at the forefront of retailing and consistently provide outstanding customer service, culminating in winning the Cruise Retailer of the Year award for 2022 and 2023.

Harding+ is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify, and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Harding+.

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