The Finance Planning Manager / FP&A Manager / Financial Strategy Lead leads financial planning, forecasting, performance analysis, and strategic decision support for the organisation. This role provides clear financial insight on revenue, costs, profitability, investment priorities, and business risks, enabling leaders to make informed decisions and deliver sustainable financial performance.
The position works closely with executive leadership, Accounting, Commercial, Operations, Product, Procurement, Human Resources, and business-unit leaders. Responsibilities include managing budgeting and forecasting cycles, preparing financial models and management reports, analysing variances, monitoring key performance indicators, assessing business cases, and identifying opportunities to improve profitability, cost efficiency, and resource allocation.
The role also supports long-range planning, strategic initiatives, pricing decisions, investment proposals, and transformation programmes. It improves planning processes, data quality, reporting standards, and financial governance while communicating practical, commercially focused recommendations to senior stakeholders.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Commerce, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field.
- Professional qualification such as ACCA, CPA, CIMA, CA, CFA, or equivalent is highly desirable.
- MBA, master's degree, or relevant advanced finance qualification is an advantage.
- Significant experience in financial planning and analysis, corporate finance, management accounting, finance business partnering, or strategic finance.
- Proven experience managing annual budgets, rolling forecasts, long-range plans, and monthly or quarterly performance-review processes.
- Strong understanding of profit and loss statements, balance sheets, cash flow, working capital, revenue, costs, margins, and key financial-performance indicators.
- Experience building financial models, business cases, scenario analyses, sensitivity analyses, investment appraisals, and strategic plans.
- Ability to analyse complex financial and operational data, identify trends, explain variances, and provide clear recommendations.
- Experience preparing executive management reports, board materials, dashboards, forecasts, and presentations for senior stakeholders.
- Strong commercial acumen and ability to support decisions on pricing, investment, cost optimisation, product profitability, market expansion, and resource allocation.
- Knowledge of financial controls, accounting standards, audit requirements, risk management, compliance, and governance principles.
- Proficiency in Excel and experience using ERP, planning, consolidation, reporting, or business-intelligence tools such as SAP, Oracle, Anaplan, Hyperion, Power BI, or comparable systems.
- Ability to partner effectively with non-finance stakeholders and translate financial information into practical business insight.
- Experience leading, mentoring, or developing finance analysts, accountants, or planning professionals is advantageous.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder-management, presentation, prioritisation, strategic-thinking, and problem-solving skills.
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