Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

Job Description

Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

What is the opportunity?

The CFO Centre are looking for a Qualified Accountant, with a strong financial analysis and business process automation background, and with team management experience.

This role is exciting as you will work with various stakeholders across the business, to understand and transform data into valuable insight to help drive business decisions, and will be a great support to the Finance team with month end processes, reporting, planning and forecasting.

It’s worth knowing that we are also investing in a new finance system, which will help bring further insights to the business and will support the company’s vision of Creating life-changing businesses for 1 million clients, their people, and their families.

Duties:

Financial Analysis

• Provide valuable data insights and performance analysis to senior stakeholders across the business.
• Creating and maintaining dashboards and reports, including charts, tables and graphs to enable presentation of data in an effective format.
• Reviewing, analysing and interpreting month end financial reports, including P&L, Balance Sheet, Cashflow Statements, Overheads and Business performance.
• Identify value add areas and supporting the Head of UK & Ireland Finance with adhoc projects and deep-dives.
• Create financial modelling templates for use across multiple countries.

Process Improvement

• Recommendations and implementation of process and reporting improvements through automation solutions and standardisation across the business.
• Provide guidance and training to Finance team and Central team on finance processes and automation skills, helping to embed a continuous improvement mindset.
• Involved in additional projects as they arise.

Team Leadership and Stakeholder Management

• Lead, manage and motivate the finance accounting team including regular 1:1’s, development of performance and fostering continual collaboration.
• Supporting the finance team through month end close, ensuring accuracy of results and helping with adhoc queries.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the business including Finance Business Partners, Head of UK & Ireland Finance, Group Financial Controller and Divisional Directors to identify opportunities to improve performance and drive growth and help with decision making, through data led analysis.
• Supporting Credit Control Manager with processes, reporting and reviewing performance of aged debt.

Budgeting & Forecasting

• Update and maintain budgets and forecasts, liaising with appropriate stakeholders across the business.
• Lead the review and creation of financial models to support robust forward thinking analysis and decision making.

Skills:

• Qualified Accountant with a strong technical background and team management experience.
• Experience of embedding robust month end processes and controls and good knowledge of Systems.
• Excellent Excel and business intelligence skills such as Power Query, Power Automate and Power Apps and a Business Process Automation (BPA) Champion.
• Attention to detail, with an analytical mindset to organise and interpret data.
• Open, honest and progressive with excellent communication skills.

Benefits

• Salary £60k to £65k (DoE)
• Hybrid working – 2 days working from home, 3 days in our office in Swindon
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays (with Christmas Shutdown)
• Salary Sacrifice Pension
• Free parking on-site
• Cycle to work Scheme
• Annual party for you and your family

Who are we?

We are 1,000 people, in 5 continents, across 19 countries, and operating in 92 regions.

A collective of former CEOs, Executives, CFOs, FDs, and successful business owners who count themselves as top of the game, and who’ve experienced success in their former lives. We are the Avengers team of the financial strategy world, bringing together thousands of years of collective experience to supercharge our client’s businesses.

What do we do?

We define and deliver the numbers that really matter to our clients. What does that mean? Well anyone can come up with numbers, we help our clients find the ones that really make a difference to their business and their lives. Whether that’s growth, acquisition, consolidation, or setting them up for the lifestyle they’ve always wanted.

The CFO Centre is the UK arm of The CFO Centre Group, who are the UK and Global Market leading provider of part time Financial Director/CFO services to mid-sized businesses. As we say, for those businesses that don’t want, don’t need and probably can’t afford a full time FD/CFO, yet who want access to that skillset on an affordable part time basis.

Not only that, in the UK The CFO Centre is the founding member of The Liberti Group, a family of sister businesses changing the game by providing part-time c-suite professionals across finance, marketing, sales, IT and HR around the world.

We want to change the game, and we are looking for a game changer to join us.