Global FP&A Manager

Are you interested in playing a key role in finance within a friendly, award-winning management consultancy? Do you have strong financial reporting experience and an interest in working in a rapidly scaling international business? If so, then a role at CIL Management Consultants as their Global FP&A Manager may well be for you.

About CIL

CIL is an international management consultancy that helps clients to grow their businesses, build value and invest wisely across a range of sectors. We have offices in the UK, US, Germany and France. Like all consulting firms, we are only as good as our people. To continue our strong growth (>20% per annum over the last five years), we are looking to recruit a Global FP&A Manager to support the Chief Financial Officer in driving forward financial planning and analysis at CIL.

The role

Team structure & reporting lines

The successful candidate will be an integral member of CIL’s finance team, which is headed up by the Chief Financial Officer. We are looking for a team member who can own internal management information reporting, provide commercial insight, and act as a finance lead to the senior partnership team. This role reports directly to the Chief Financial Officer and will be responsible for the career development of junior team members.

Core responsibilities

The core responsibilities include:

• Group reporting (including Board pack preparation, variance analysis, commercial insight, KPIs)
• Revenue recognition accounting (including regular calls with the partnership team)
• Budget, Forecast, and Outturn preparation and management
• Invoicing and collections management
• CRM system (Netsuite – OpenAir) ownership, with a view to maintain and improve our use of it
• Microsoft PowerBI dashboard ownership, with a view to maintain and improve our use of it

As well as these, we expect our FP&A Manager to use their knowledge to help the finance function scale as the business grows (e.g. suggesting and overseeing process and system change and improvement).

Office vs. home working

It is expected that this role can involve a mixture of home and office working (c.3 days per week in the office), although we think the successful candidate would probably benefit from more office time initially to help them get up the curve.

Working for CIL

We have two offices in the UK – one in London and one in Frome, near Bath. The finance team and this role are based in the Frome office which is located in the beautiful Somerset countryside. We also have offices in the USA (Chicago), Germany (Munich) and France (Paris).

Although we work in structured project teams, we are socially very equal, lively and inclusive. There are no corner offices, no cliques – we work in open-plan offices and are not political. We think ‘a culture’ is something other firms have to invent. Ours is the product of the people we employ.

What CIL people are like

We have a team of ~200 highly qualified, highly skilled people across our five offices. Successful CIL people share some key attributes:

• A ‘growth mindset’ when it comes to problem solving
• Motivation and ambition, able to stand on their own two feet
• Strong team working and people skills
• Outstanding numeracy, written and verbal communication skills
• Humility and quiet self-confidence – we are not an ‘alpha’ environment
• A keen sense of humour and broad shoulders

We have strict qualification criteria for this role. These are:

• Be ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified (or international equivalent), with 5+ years’ experience
• Experience of working in a similar role (including experience of MI reporting, system/process improvement, working in an international multi-entity company)
• Good people skills with experience of managing and developing others
• Knowledge of using finance systems and CRMs
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office – particularly Excel – is essential. Competency in PowerPoint is required
• A mindset of continual improvement and ability to ‘keep it simple’

Preferable criteria include:

• Relevant professional services experience
• Netsuite – OpenAir and Microsoft PowerBI experience

We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. CIL commits to creating and maintaining a culture where every employee feels included and respected; to countering discrimination through our recruitment and training processes and our interaction with other stakeholders; and to celebrating the diverse contributions of all our employees and stakeholders.