Senior FP&A Manager

18 Month Fixed-Term Contract

The Role:

This role offers the opportunity to lead and develop a high-performing team during a period of rapid growth and transformation. The Senior FP&A Manager will play a crucial role in leading in specific areas to ensure we deliver accurate and relevant analysis.

Manage reporting for Head of manager review autonomously, ensuring team's success.

The expectation is for them to come with key findings and to display key points that are important. Overall, they should have the summary commentary and relevant analysis to bring forward to the business.

Key roles and responsibilities:

Financial Planning, lead specific areas

• Support preparation of Group forecast & budget packs. Includes preparation of analysis files, review of forecast changes and preparation of commentaries / tables / graphs
• Support preparation of Board packs owning specific areas (Capex, SDIs & divisional)
• Ownership of Capex reporting which is c.$700m for 2025, SME for all capex queries within FP&A
• Monthly analysis of capex to include commentary for monthly CFO pack
• Assist divisions/brands in inputting capex within forecast cycles
• Analysis and commentary for quarterly forecast packs, budget and LTP
• Ownership of SDI reporting, a key area with the change of accounting moving to US GAAP (c$200m budget)
• Monthly analysis of SDIs to include commentary for monthly CFO pack
• Partner with the group reporting team to ensure SDIs are reviewed and vetted to ensure they are accurately classified
• Analysis and commentary for quarterly forecast packs, budget and LTP
• Share based-payments analysis

Business Partnering, main point of contact to a specific division/team

• HR Reward Team

• Partner with Reward in advance of and during planning cycles, to include their advice in Europe financial plans
• Ownership of Group plan bonus performance testing, ensuring accrual matches payment requirement
• For CFO and Reward team, lead on updates on bonus plan performance from a finance perspective, including scenario analysis and input to CompCo papers
• Assist Reward team in setting calendar for bonus plan performance reviews across the year.
• Co-ordinate divisional bonus plan performance forecast submissions during the year. Review and confirm bonus testing as submitted by divisional teams
• Responsibility for quality of earnings analysis & review
• Assist in preparation of Reward bonus papers in advance of CEO, CPO and CFO review, including context/scenario analysis etc, as the need arises
• Partner with Reward in target setting for upcoming financial year, including scenario analysis as the need arises
• Bonus adjustments requests and target setting
• Reconcile bonus accruals in Group, ensuring accrual in line with requirements and balancing of y/e bonus payouts vs y/e accrual

Internal controls

• Assist on Internal controls requirements, owning bonus controls for Group scheme 

Team management

• Lead and mentor a small team of financial specialists setting objectives, balancing priorities, team development and performance management.

Skills/Capability Required

• Experience of leading other financial specialists to deliver budget and forecast data and analysis both via direct team management and through peer matrix\project management
• Experience of developing and mentoring less experienced team members
• Experience of leading delivery of both annual/cyclical finance planning and reporting activity and ad-hoc projects
• Comfortable acting as an advisor to C suite decision makers as well as other business leadership and able to operate as a credible lead SME
• Experience of defining, shaping and documenting finance policy, process and governance
• Experience in crafting and coordinating the production of financial data packs, reports, and other analysis that aid collaborator decision making
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and mentoring skills
• Highly adaptable, agile and proactive, excellent team player whos adept to working in a very fast paced role
• Very detailed, organised, analytical, with highest standards of accuracy

Company Overview

Flutter Entertainment Plc is the largest global sports betting, gaming and entertainment provider, operating some of the world's most innovative, diverse and distinctive brands. In H1 2024, Flutter became primary listed on the New York Stock Exchange, while maintaining a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange. Flutter also elected to become a voluntary Domestic Filer and established its operational headquarters in New York, also during H1, reflecting the superior size and scale of our US business, relative to the rest of the Group. The highly accelerated pace of Flutter’s journey to its US listing has also been the catalyst for a full-scale, business focused transformation of Global Finance to support and enable the achievement of Flutter’s strategic priorities and operating as a US listed company, under the full jurisdiction of the SEC.

At Flutter we’re working to be an inclusive employer, and we encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking and working to apply. Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you don't have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role.

If you need any adjustments to make this role work for you let us know, and we’ll see how we can accommodate them.