Fender Musical Instruments Corporation is a world-famous brand with offices across the globe. Fender was born in Southern California and has built a worldwide influence beyond the studio and the stage. A Fender is more than an instrument; it’s a cultural symbol that resonates globally.
We are searching for a FP&A Manager to join our team. Working in an often fast-paced environment, the role will provide the business with accurate financial information that will be analysed in all areas of the business within the profit and loss account for Fender’s European operation. The role will provide business partnering to key stakeholders in the business, and provide good quality financial information and analysis in all areas including sales, margins and operating costs for Fender Europe.
Main Responsibilities
- Potential line management of 1 junior team member
- Review and preparation of monthly management reports, for use at meetings with European and US executive management, including:
- Reviewing P&L performance against budget, prior year and previous forecasts
- Detailed margin variance analysis, including price and cost variances
- Sales and order analytics, including NPI
- Business Partnering of Sales Directors, including analysis of Channel and Brand sales performance and profitability
- ROI analysis and reporting on various promotional activities and spend
- Providing margin and discount analysis to aid decisions on pricing and promotions
- Business Partnering of Marketing Leads, including analysis of A&P spend, and quarterly A&P forecasts
- Preparation of periodic forecasts for P&L line items, including liaising with EVP Managing Director, Sales Leads and Planning team on relevant assumptions
- Preparation of the annual budget for P&L line items, including sales, margin and opex
- Risk and trend analysis for Sales
- Ad hoc project work
Essential Skills/Experience
- 3-5 years of related experience
- Recognised accountancy qualification
- Ability to analyse figures and present the information in a readable and understandable format for non-finance staff
- Ability to work on own initiative and use creativity in developing new reporting
- Ability to work with raw data and produce financial information
- Experience of detailed gross margin variance analysis
- Budgeting and forecasting experience
- Ability to develop and maintain positive working relationships
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment, prioritise workload and meet deadlines
- Excellent attention to detail
- Flexible approach and inquisitive nature
- Multi Currency work experience required
- Advanced IT skills (MS Excel, Word, Powerpoint)
- Good interpersonal and communication skills to deal with different cultures and styles
Desirable Skills/Experience
- Experience of Hyperion, Tableau, BW and SAP
- Consumer Goods or Manufacturing Background preferred
What We Do
Jim Odom and Brian Smith founded PreSonus in 1995 with the goal of building professional and affordable music production tools for musicians and audio engineers.
PreSonus began in Jim’s garage and moved to the second floor of Causey’s Furniture in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where it stayed its first three years. PreSonus’ first product, the award-winning DCP8, digitally controlled 8-channel compressor/limiter/gate, holds a patent for analog control over digital circuitry. Truly ahead of its time, the DCP8 was designed for the studio engineer to insert 8 channels of analog compression with the ability to save, recall and automate settings which where features only found in mixing consoles costing more than $100,000.
At Causey’s location, PreSonus designed and built the ACP8, an analog version of the DCP-8, the BlueMax two channel tube compressor, and the ACP22 dual compressor/limiter/gate.
In 1998, PreSonus moved to its current location at the Baton Rouge Bon Carre Technology Park.
Throughout the past decade, PreSonus has developed innovative professional and affordable tools to the music creation industry with the purpose of enhancing the music creation and production process.
