Location: Greater Manchester area/hybrid
Reports to: Chief Financial Officer
Benefits package: competitive base salary plus car/allowance and annual bonus
Business Type: Private Equity–Backed, Multi-Site Buy & Build Platform
Capital Structure: Leveraged (Senior Debt + Potential Mezzanine/Unitranche)

The Vella Group is seeking a highly capable FP&A Manager to play a pivotal role at a transformative point in the company’s journey. Reporting directly to the CFO, this newly created position sits at the heart of a PE-backed organisationthat has recently secured significant investment and is entering an accelerated phase of growth through strategic acquisition and continued organic expansion. As a key member of the finance leadership team, the FP&A Manager will help shape the group’s financial future—bringing rigour to planning and reporting, providing insightful analysis to drive decision-making, and partnering closely with senior stakeholders as the business scales at pace.

1. Role Summary
The FP&A Manager will play a critical role in supporting a high growth, private equity backed buy and build platform. The business is scaling rapidly through acquisitions and organic expansion, and the role requires a commercially minded finance professional who can operate effectively in a leveraged environment, deliver robust financial analysis, strengthen reporting disciplines, and support value creation initiatives.
This position will act as a key business partner to the CFO, senior leadership team, and PE investors, providing insight, challenge, and decision support across the group.

2. Key Responsibilities
Financial Planning & Forecasting
*Lead the annual budget cycle, quarterly reforecasts, and long-range plan modelling.
*Build and maintain integrated financial models incorporating multi-site P&Ls, acquisitions, pipeline scenarios, and leverage/covenant metrics.
*Model acquisition cases, synergy opportunities, and post-integration performance trajectories.
Performance Reporting & Insight
*Deliver monthly FP&A packs, including variance analysis, operational KPIs, trend insights, and actionable commentary.
*Consolidate multi-site performance to provide group level visibility and benchmarking.
*Develop dashboards/support cadence for real time performance monitoring (e.g., labour productivity, unit economics, site maturity curves).
Private Equity & Lender Reporting
*Prepare board and investor materials including trading performance, covenant headroom, cash flow trends, and value creation metrics.
*Support monthly and quarterly lender reporting requirements.
*Monitor liquidity, headroom, and leverage ratios; highlight risks early and support mitigation strategies.
Acquisition Support & Integration
*Build financial models for new acquisitions, including quality of earnings adjustments, normalised EBITDA, working capital needs, and integration impact.
*Provide finance workstreams support during due diligence (commercial, financial, and operational).
*Track integration KPIs and synergy realisation across acquired businesses.
Commercial Finance & Decision Support
*Partner with operations leaders across the multi-site network to improve profitability and performance.
*Evaluate ROI for capex, new site openings, and strategic initiatives.
*Conduct pricing, margin, and cost-to-serve analysis to support commercial decisions.
Systems, Controls & Process Improvement
*Strengthen FP&A processes, data governance, and reporting infrastructure as the business scales.
*Work closely with BI/IT teams to enhance data accuracy and automate reporting.
*Implement discipline and structure typical of PE-backed environments, aiming for best-in-class reporting.
3. Skills & Experience Required
*Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) or equivalent, with 2–5+ years in FP&A, corporate finance, transaction services, or PE-backed business finance.
*Experience in multi-site, operationally intensive businesses strongly preferred.
*Strong financial modelling capability — able to build and maintain robust, flexible Excel models from scratch.
*Exposure to leveraged environments, lender reporting, or covenant monitoring desirable.
*Experience supporting M&A or integration activities highly beneficial.
*Excellent communication skills, able to translate financial data into clear insight for senior leaders and investors.
*Strong commercial awareness and ability to challenge assumptions constructively.
*Comfortable operating in fast paced, high growth, ambiguous environments.
4. Personal Characteristics
*Highly analytical, detail oriented, and intellectually curious.
*Pragmatic, proactive, and solutions oriented.
*High level of ownership and accountability.
*Comfortable engaging with both finance and non-finance stakeholders.
*Thrives in PE-backed cultures: fast pace, high expectations, data driven decision making.
5. Package
*Competitive base salary + performance-related bonus.
*Potential participation in LTIP/management incentive plan (subject to level).
*Standard benefits + opportunities for growth as the group scales.

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