FP&A Manager - FMCG- Food Industry

Role Purpose

We are looking for an FP&A Manager to take ownership of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and full three statement analysis for a fast growing Egyptian FMCG manufacturer. This is not a back office reporting role. You will sit at the center of how the business plans, tracks, and understands its own performance, working directly with most of business departments (Commercial team, Supply Chain, and Accounting) to turn numbers into decisions. You will also play a hands on role in the company's SAP S/4HANA implementation and support strategic modelling for a major new factory investment.

This role suits someone who wants real ownership early, building processes from the ground up rather than inheriting a mature machine.

Key Responsibilities

Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting

• Own the annual budget process end to end, including calendar, templates, and consolidation.
• Lead the monthly rolling forecast, keeping it live and decision useful rather than a static exercise.
• Plan and actualize the Balance Sheet alongside the P&L. This is a full three statement role, not a P&L only role.
• Own cash flow planning across all three components: operating, investing, and financing., deriving cash flow logic from P&L and Balance Sheet movements. (This excludes bank facing treasury and cash management, which sit elsewhere).
• Own G&A overhead planning, including budgeting, forecasting, and monthly tracking of overhead spend against plan.
• Work with department heads to challenge and validate overhead assumptions rather than accepting flat carry forwards.

Cash Flow Ownership & Working Capital

• Own cash flow targets and work cross functionally to hit them (Operating, investing, and financing cash flow)
• Working with the manufacturing team to lower inventory levels.
• Working with the collection team to decrease DSO and collection time.
• Working with procurement to extend payment terms and DPO.
• Owning overall cash conversion cycle planning and driving the business to hit agreed targets.
• Supporting achievement of forecast and budget targets across any area they touch, not just reporting the outcome.

Management Reporting & Performance Analysis

• Build and maintain the monthly management reporting pack.
• Prepare analysis and materials for Monthly Business Reviews.
• Deliver variance analysis across P&L, Balance Sheet, and cash flow, comparing budget to actual and forecast to actual, with drivers explained rather than just numbers reported.

Business Partnering

• Act as the embedded finance partner for Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain, and Accounting.
• Challenge assumptions, flag risk, and bring a financial lens into commercial and operational decisions before they are made, not after.
• Build genuine working relationships across functions. This role requires influence without direct authority.

Financial Modelling & Decision Support

• Support the Business Finance Director on strategic modelling for the company's new factory investment, building and maintaining models under direction.
• Build ad hoc financial models to support business decisions as they arise.

KPI & Variance Analysis

• Design and maintain KPI dashboards covering financial and operational performance.
• Own the variance analysis discipline across the business, explaining what moved and why, not just producing the numbers.

Transformation, Systems & Controls

• Play an active role supporting the SAP S/4HANA implementation from the FP&A and Controlling side.
• Bring structure and rigor to processes that are still maturing. This role will help shape how planning and reporting work going forward, not just execute an existing playbook.
• Support internal controls relevant to the FP&A area, including budget approval discipline, data integrity in planning and reporting, and adherence to financial policy across the forecasting and budgeting cycle.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• 8 to 12 years of progressive FP&A experience, including prior experience specifically within an FP&A department. This is not a first FP&A role.
• FMCG industry background required. Manufacturing sector experience is a strong plus.
• Hands on experience with SAP S/4HANA required.
• CMA certification is a plus, not mandatory.

Technical Skills

• Advanced Excel and financial modelling. This is non negotiable.
• SAP S/4HANA, with practical, hands on experience.
• Power BI, Power Query, or similar BI and automation tools are a plus.
• Strong professional English.

Leadership & Behavioral Competencies

• Strong interpersonal skills and comfort managing multiple stakeholders across functions.
• Organized and structured, able to run recurring processes without things slipping.
• Able to drive change and push back diplomatically. This environment has entrenched ways of working, and this role needs someone who can shift them without creating conflict.
• Proactive and dynamic. This is a build role, not a maintain role.
• Flexible, as priorities will shift as the business scales and systems change.

What Success Looks Like

A strong candidate in this role, six months in, has:

• A rolling forecast and budget process that leadership actually trusts and uses.
• Balance sheet and cash flow visibility that did not exist before, along with visible progress on cash conversion cycle targets.
• Real working relationships with Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain, and Accounting, built on trust rather than one way data requests.
• Active, credible involvement in the SAP rollout.
• A track record of flagging the right issue before it became a problem, not after.