The Danesmoor Group is one of the UK's leading kitchen and bedroom businesses. We're a fifth generation, family‑owned company with a long track record, but with a clear focus on what is next. Our ambition is to combine the stability, investment and long term thinking of a heritage business with the pace, mindset and capability of a modern, digital first organisation.
With a turnover of c.£70m and a strong reputation for service, innovation, design‑led products and advanced UK manufacturing, we've built a solid platform across trade and retail channels. Today, the focus is firmly on the next stage of growth.
The group operates across multiple routes to market and audiences:
- PWS – a market‑leading trade distributor operating at scale across the UK.
- Life Kitchens – a fast‑growing kitchen manufacturer with a premium consumer brand with showrooms in Waterloo, Wimbledon and York, alongside established B2B trade channels.
- Danesmoor Agency
Together, this creates a genuinely interesting and complex environment spanning B2B and B2C, trade and retail, design, manufacturing and distribution – all within one group.
Role purpose
To lead planning, performance insight and business partnering so leaders understand performance, anticipate outcomes and take actions that improve value.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the annual budget, rolling forecast, long-range plan, scenario modelling and consolidation process.
- Lead delivery of monthly management accounts, executive MI and the financial input to Board reporting.
- Translate results into driver-based insight across price, volume, mix, margin, labour, overhead, working capital and cash.
- Set standards for business-unit review packs, commentary, risks and opportunities, actions and benefits tracking.
- Lead, coach and allocate the Finance Business Partner team across the five business units.
- Own management KPI definitions and sponsor reporting simplification and automation.
Core Outputs
- Group and BU management accounts
- Annual budget and rolling forecast
- Executive and Board MI draft
- Scenario and sensitivity models
- BU review packs and action logs
- KPI dictionary and reporting roadmap
Measures of Success
- Reporting issued to timetable
- Forecast bias and error reduced
- Clear statutory-to-management reconciliation
- Decisions supported by quantified insight
- Actions have owners and due dates
- Manual reporting effort reduced
Experience, qualifications and behaviours
- Qualified accountant, ACA, ACCA or CIMA
- Senior FP&A and management reporting experience in a multi-entity group
- Strong modelling, forecasting and scenario-planning capability, including the ability to combine multiple data sources for data modelling and insight
- Commercially credible business partner and practical problem solver, able to challenge constructively and turn complex issues into clear actions
- Experienced manager and coach of qualified or part-qualified accountants
- Manufacturing, distribution, stock and margin experience preferred
