Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Salary: £65,000 per annum
Location: Flexible - within commutable distance to Wareham
Hours: 37 hours per week

We’re looking for a FP&A Manager to play a key role in supporting the delivery of the Group’s long-term financial plan. The role is responsible for producing high quality financial analysis and insights that enable effective decision making across the organisation.

Working closely with the Head of FP&A and Investor Relations, the FP&A Manager leads the preparation and maintenance of the Group’s long-term financial plan and scenario modelling. The role ensures that robust financial information is available to support strategic initiatives, treasury activities, investment decisions and regulatory requirements.

The FP&A Manager acts as a trusted business partner to finance and operational stakeholders, driving financial discipline, improving reporting capabilities and supporting continuous improvement within the FP&A function.

What you’ll be doing

• Preparing and maintaining the Group’s annual financial plan and subsequent updates, ensuring outputs are accurate, robust and delivered to agreed timescales.
• Coordinating the collection, review and consolidation of financial planning information from across the Group.
• Supporting the production of presentations and reports for Executive Team, Board and Committee meetings.
• Preparing of the annual Financial Forecast Return (FFR) and other regulatory submissions, ensuring consistency with the approved business plan.
• Developing and maintaining financial models, supporting strategic planning, investment appraisal, funding requirements and business cases.
• Producing detailed scenario analysis, stress testing and mitigation assessments to support strategic decision making and regulatory requirements.
• Monitoring and analysing relevant Group KPIs, identifying risks, opportunities and emerging trends.
• Supporting the production of business plan outputs required for credit rating submissions and lender reporting.
• Overseeing the production and development of the Group’s monthly cash flow forecast.
• Maintaining and developing financial plannings models used to analyse covenant compliance, financial capacity and development programme sustainability.
• Supporting interest budget and forecasting processes through analysis of financial planning outputs and funding assumptions.
• Producing reports and analysis form Treasury and Finance Committee meetings and other governance forums.
• Supporting the Head of FP&A and Investor Relations in producing content for investors.
• Any other support as required to the Head of FP&A and Investor Relations or Director of Treasury.
• Leading on ad hoc financial analysis and modelling projects in support of corporate objectives.
• Identifying opportunities to improve financial processes, reporting automation and data accessibility through existing and emerging finance technologies.
• Ensuring high standards of data integrity, governance and auditability across all planning and forecasting processes.
• Building effective relationships with stakeholders across Finance and the wider organisation to improve financial understanding and decision making.