The Senior FP&A Analyst & Vi Planning Lead oversees financial performance, leads budgeting and forecasting processes, and collaborates with various teams to drive strategic decisions and business performance.
Join our team as a FP&A Analyst and Vi Planning Lead, where you’ll play a key role in driving financial performance and strategic decision-making. Reporting to the FP&A Manager, you’ll act as the primary finance lead for our Veterinary Instrumentation (Vi) business.You’ll lead Financial Planning & Analysis, delivering robust forecasting, planning, and strategic analysis for current operations and future opportunities, with full accountability for the Vi business’s planning and forecasting cycles.You’ll support our distribution business based in Dumfries and our Vi business, challenging and influencing stakeholders to achieve financial goals. You’ll own and continuously improve FP&A processes, systems, and data ensuring scalable frameworks that meet global and local requirements. Working closely with commercial, operational, and leadership teams, you’ll proactively identify and drive strategic, value-creation opportunities through insight-led analysis that shapes decisions and delivers impact.More about the role
- Lead end‑to‑end planning and forecasting for the Veterinary Instrumentation (Vi) business, including annual budgets, periodic reforecasts, long‑range plans and scenario analysis, providing clear recommendations to senior leadership.
- Provide leadership across Profit and Loss forecasting and planning, both short‑term and longer‑term strategic, building robust models and processes that provide insight, challenge assumptions and enable key business decisions. Ensure that the global organisation receives accurate, timely and insightful submissions.
- Lead complex business analysis in response to ad‑hoc leadership team requests, using scenario modelling and financial insight to drive improved business performance across customers, categories and products.
- Presenting (both written and verbal) of results and analysis to others, in a complex and rapidly changing environment, messages (including those related to complicated accounting issues) are easily digested and understood by non-finance professionals.
- Budgeting – lead the budget process for your areas of responsibility, including systems, processes and stakeholder engagement from leadership team level down, ensuring a clear, stretching and credible budget that the organisation can be held accountable to deliver.
- Drive the development and improvement of dashboards, systems and processes to enable leaders to make data‑driven strategic decisions, including both financial and non‑financial metrics.
- Act as a finance partner to commercial and marketing teams in identifying and delivering new sales and margin initiatives, through strong relationships, commercial insight and rigorous financial evaluation.
- Fully qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with strong post-qualification experience in FP&A or commercial finance.
- Exposure to large groups with corporate reporting requirements would be very helpful.
- Degree Level Education
- Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills essential, SAP and Sage experience desirable. Strong data analytical skills.
Covetrus is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Top Skills
Excel
PowerPoint
Sage
SAP
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