Head of Financial Planning & Analysis

Here at innocent, we''re on a mission to make it easier for everyone to get more fruit and veg into their bodies. We started back in 1999 and since then we''ve gone from selling a few smoothies at a music festival to becoming one of Europe''s biggest drinks companies with around 1,000 people (and the B Corp seal of approval). It''s nice to be able to say things like that but we''re not patting ourselves on the back just yet. We want to show everyone that it''s possible to be a successful business while looking after people and the planet too, so we''re trying to get better in pretty much every way. And that''s where this job comes in.

Responsibilities

Leading the Long-Range Planning (LRP) and Annual Business Plan (ABP) processes, translating our 2030 Future vision of doubling our revenue into bold, actionable financial plans.

Owning consolidated reporting across the business, partnering with the CFO and Board to surface insights, ensure accuracy, and guide decisions.

Transforming how we do FPandA: simplify reporting, digitise processes, and elevate the quality of business insights making it easier for teams to make smarter choices, faster.

Partnering with purpose: work hand-in-hand with Marketing and Innovation to ensure financial rigour in everything from Marketing spend to sustainability and innovation cycles.

Championing financial discipline: from OPEX and CAPEX to risk tracking and sound internal controls, you''ll keep us sharp, compliant, and future-ready.

Lead and inspire: build and nurture a high-performing team, fostering a culture of inclusion, accountability, and internal growth.

Qualifications

A solid grounding in financial governance alongside FPandA expertise, ensuring balance between strategic insight and operational rigour.

Collaboratively with all team members, guiding and coaching to develop skills, capabilities, and behaviours.

Strong partnering expertise and ability to quickly understand the internal stakeholder landscape and their respective motivators to enable effective influencing.

Able to balance the analytical and data-driven approach with creativity and intuition to get to the best outcomes.

Be an effective and value-adding member of the Finance leadership team as well as innocent leadership group.

A high level of curiosity to be innovative and improve the way we go about providing our services, to build a better innocent.

Benefits

The chance to lead your finance team, interact with the broader Marketing team, and closely collaborate with our Board and senior key stakeholders.

The ability to influence the direction of the business - both on a 1 and multi-year time horizon - across many senior forums.

Be at the heart of the challenge of re-shaping our PandL to enable us to invest more in the brand and deliver our ambitions for the future.

Sit in the driver seat of the transformation journey of our reporting, forecasting and planning processes.

Exposure to group-level reporting and governance frameworks, including interaction with our shareholder The Coca-Cola Company.

We want innocent to be a great place to work, so we do lots of stuff to make people feel at home and try to make sure everyone''s career is shaping up the way they want it to. There are plenty of opportunities to have a go at something new or take things further. In exchange for helping us do business in the right way, you''ll get a solid package that includes a salary, private healthcare, a target-based bonus, and a bunch of other nice things like a day off on your birthday. And yes, you get free smoothies.

We also know that not all our drinkers come from the same background, or think the same - so why should we? At innocent, we want to be a great place to work where a diverse bunch of people from all backgrounds can turn up and thrive. When we hire, we want all the juice, bits, and pulp that make you who you are.

Even if you don''t think you can tick all the boxes, if the job sounds right for you, come and throw your hat in the ring. Probably best to get your skates on though, as we might close this early if we get loads of ..... full job details .....