Senior Fp&a Manager

Senior Manager FP&A

Finance

Dublin, Hybrid Working model with 2/3 days in Office

Contract Type – Permanent, Full-Time

Reporting to Chief Financial Officer

Escher Group

Escher powers the world’s first and last mile deliveries, helping Posts connect nearly 1 billion consumers with global ecommerce networks. Postal operators rely on Escher to deliver an enhanced retail and digital customer experience, to activate new revenue streams, and to realize new delivery economics. Learn more at www.eschergroup.com

Overview of Role

Escher Group is looking for a Senior FP&A manager to join our Group Finance department based in the Dublin office. This role will have exposure to all entities and locations in the Group, Ireland, USA, Canada, UK, Singapore and Malaysia.   

The successful candidate will be responsible for the financial planning & analysis function in Escher Group. Leading the group’s annual budget, strategic planning and rolling quarterly forecast processes, analyse monthly financial performance, deliver data-based insights & business intelligence and recommend corrective actions or opportunities where appropriate. Own the budgeting/forecasting tool and recommend/propose any additional business intelligence tools & report suites.

Key Responsibilities/Duties:

• Lead the delivery of the annual budget process and overall Group strategic model.
• Responsible for the annual strategic business planning process, including process planning, data collection, coordination across stakeholder groups, scenario analysis, and delivery of outputs to senior management.
• Responsible for the monthly rolling forecast and providing detailed commentary on all variances to both annual budget and prior months rolling forecast.
• Responsible for the rolling cash flow and covenant compliance forecast
• Own the revenue recognition as part of the monthly close and to drive the revenue forecast based on pipeline management through CRM and contract management.
• Responsible for preparing the monthly board reports which include analysis of actuals and forecasts.
• Responsible for monthly customer profit analysis to drive discussions with the ELT on how contracts are performing vs budget.
• Responsible for monthly R&D Capex reporting by customer and type to determine treatment is in line with IFRS.
• Lead the integration, development and enhancement of manufacturing forecasting processes
• Drive continuous improvement in timeliness and accuracy of business planning
• Business partnering with departments to understand performance and provide
• Develop and share relevant reporting metrics and KPI’s across the
• Participate in the delivery of monthly financial insights on business performance including site analysis, key metrics and reconciliation against latest budget and forecasts.
• Identify areas of continuous improvement for FP&A team, including the identification of applications, tools or data sources to improve decision making within the organisation on an ongoing basis.
• Mentor, coach and develop direct report(s).
• Involvement in ad hoc projects, scenario analysis and supporting the CFO as and when required.

Role Requirements/Experience

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with a minimum of 5 years

• Highly motivated self-starter who can work independently or collaborate as part of a team with the ability to build effective partnerships with all stakeholders.

• Demonstrated success in driving process improvement and problem-

• Experience with financial planning, modelling and analysis functions, including annual budgeting and forecasting, strategic planning and analysis of critical KPIs.

• Excellent analytical skills derived from work experience and

• Experience in business tools/systems with particular emphasis on planning and analytics tools such as Netsuite

• Demonstrated expertise in excel and database

• Ability to pay meticulous attention to detail while seeing bigger

• Strong project management skills and experience working to tight

• Excellent communication and presentation skills (good working knowledge of PowerPoint).

• Demonstrated experience working with non-finance

• Proven ability with managing a team, mentoring/coaching and completing performance reviews

• Experience working at diverse levels across a multinational organisation including the ability to influence at Executive Committee and C-suite level.

Why Join Escher?

Do you want to join a team that is enhancing the customer experience for over 1 billion people and digitally transforming postal operations on a global scale? Our customers are among the largest postal operators and couriers on the planet and our purpose built-customer engagement platform is helping them to profitably engage customers anywhere, anytime.

At Escher, you’ll be part of a global team with employees on four continents supporting customers from across 35 countries. Here, people truly are our greatest strength, and we mean it. At Escher, you’ll have the support of an experienced leadership team and a group of dedicated employees that have been helping postal operators redefine customer engagement for over 30 years.

What We Have to Offer

Escher offers a competitive compensation package, and free coffee and snacks, and so much more! Most importantly, a career at Escher is one that is both rich and rewarding with many opportunities and room for growth. This is truly a unique opportunity to be part of an exceptional team, helping to transform some of the biggest organizations in the world, and influencing the future of postal operations. If you’re up for the challenge, we want to hear from you!

Escher is an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate and will take affirmative actions and measures to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the basis of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran’s status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.