Border To Coast Pensions Partnership
Financial Planning & Analysis Manager
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Leeds – 3 days office
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Permanent: 37.5 hours per week
Full time (we welcome flexible working discussions)
An opportunity to make a difference
At Border to Coast, our purpose is to make a difference and we’re looking for a Financial Planning and Analysis Manager to join our award-winning team.
As a customer-owned and customer-focused organisation, integrity is one of our values, as is our collaborative and sustainable approach. Our focus is to secure the pensions of over a million people who have provided valuable service to their communities and society. We’re the largest UK asset manager outside London or Edinburgh, and we provide innovative investments that deliver sustainable returns over the long term.
Role Overview
As a Financial Planning and Analysis Manager, you will play a key role in supporting strategic decision-making, financial performance, and business transformation initiatives.
Working closely with the Senior FP&A Manager, you'll help deliver our budgeting process, maintain and enhance revenue models, and contribute to the development of Board-level balanced scorecard reporting. You'll also partner with our Change function to ensure programmes deliver measurable benefits, improved operational efficiency, and tangible commercial value across our B2C operations.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys translating data into actionable insights, improving processes, and influencing business performance.
Responsibilities
As a Financial Planning and Analysis Manager, your role will include:
Budgeting
- Support the delivery of budgeting and monthly performance reporting
Change & Benefits Realisation
- Partner with Change and Transformation teams to define, track, and validate financial and operational benefits of transformation initiatives
- Build and maintain benefits tracking frameworks, ensuring clear ownership and accountability
- Challenge assumptions and validate business cases with robust financial and commercial analysis
- Support post-implementation reviews to confirm delivery vs. plan
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Commercial & Financial Analysis
- Provide actionable insights into Border to Coast cost performance drivers
- Assess the impact of proposed changes on P&L, cash flow, and customer outcomes
- Identify risks and opportunities to improve commercial performance
Process Modelling & Efficiency Improvement
- Map, analyse, and optimise key Border to Coast processes to drive efficiency
- Identify process inefficiencies, duplication, and automation opportunities
- Support implementation of improved processes, including performance tracking and KPIs
- Embed a culture of continuous improvement and data-driven decision making
Data & Insight Delivery
- Develop dashboards and reporting to track change performance, benefits, and operational metrics
- Translate complex data into clear commercial insights for stakeholders
- Work with data teams to ensure data quality, consistency, and accessibility
About You
Ability to manage tight deadlines whilst ensuring quality of outputs
Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills
Strong analytical and financial modelling skills
Strong commercial acumen and business partnering skills
Strong communication, engagement, and influencing skills with confidence to challenge across all levels of the organisation
Budgeting, forecasting, and financial modelling
Proven ability to deliver benefits realisation or support transformation programmes
Effective IT skills required for the job role, including advanced Excel, PowerBI, and data analysis capability
Ability to develop dashboards and improve reporting capability
Use of PowerBI
Reward analysis
Why Join Border to Coast?
At Border to Coast, you will receive competitive remuneration and have access to excellent benefits:
- Vitality Health Insurance for all employees
- Employee Assistance Programme
- A generous holiday allowance of 30 days a year, plus bank holidays
- Professional Development including the opportunity to gain fully funded qualifications (e.g. IMC)
- Critical Illness Cover
- Pension scheme
- Stunning Leeds city centre location only a short walk to the train station
- Cycle to work scheme
- Life Assurance of 6 times of salary
- Sustainable travel plans
- Range of discounts for Leeds gyms, shops, and restaurants
- Hybrid working
- Onsite gym
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We welcome applications from people of all experience levels and backgrounds and value diversity of thought. We are committed to creating an inclusive and engaging workplace, ensuring that colleagues maintain a work-life balance. We encourage colleagues to progress, be themselves, and be their best through both personal and professional development.
If you have a disability, or if you have a condition that you believe may affect your performance during our selection process, we would be happy to discuss making reasonable adjustments to our processes for you.
We’re looking for people with the right values, behaviours, skills, and experiences. If you meet some of the role’s criteria and are interested in finding out more about Border to Coast and the team, we’d love to hear from you.
About Us
Based in Leeds, Border to Coast is the largest LGPS (Local Government Pension Scheme) pool in the UK. It is owned by 18 Local Government Pension Scheme funds (‘Partner Funds’) which collectively represent over 5,000 employers and two million members.
The Partner Funds are Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Cumbria, Durham, East Riding, East Sussex, Essex Hertfordshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Surrey, Teesside, Tyne and Wear, Warwickshire, and West Sussex.
The 18 Partner Funds have approximately £120bn of assets, strengthening the Border to Coast partnership’s ability to harness scale to be more effective, more resilient, and more impactful.
Border to Coast Pensions Partnership Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Registered in England Number: (phone number removed) and Registered Office: 5th Floor, Toronto Square, Toronto Street, Leeds, LS1 2HJ
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