Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

Role Overview

As Financial Planning and Analysis Manager, you will lead a team of finance planning analysts to drive insightful and accurate financial analysis to support informed business decisions. You will be responsible for maintaining an accurate overview and forecasts of the finances across the business, creating ongoing transparency of the current financial status and risks and opportunities.

What You Will Do

You will lead on financial planning across the business by ensuring that the business receives consistent high-quality financial information. You will produce high-quality medium-term financial plans, budgets, and forecasts, and lead the team to produce high-quality monthly management accounts packs.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This role offers the opportunity to contribute to an organisation with a clear educational purpose while gaining experience in a developing group finance environment. You will have exposure to a growing and increasingly complex group structure, including acquisitions and consolidation, and the opportunity to lead and develop a specialist team within a wider Finance function.

Requirements

• Professional accounting qualification (e.g., ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
• Ability to influence and collaborate effectively with a variety of stakeholders
• Ability to translate financial data for non-finance colleagues through effective storytelling
• Excellent people management skills
• Results-oriented approach with a focus on driving continuous improvement
• Experience in financial modelling
• Experience in FP&A or Finance Business Partnering
• Excellent planning and organisational skills with the ability to prioritise effectively to ensure all time deadlines are met

Benefits

• Up to 11.5% pension contribution
• Bupa healthcare support
• Wellbeing programmes
• Volunteering opportunities
• 25 days’ annual leave, plus Christmas closure days
• A 35-hour working week with flexible, hybrid working

Tagged as: Financial Modeling