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Head of Financial Planning
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We are partnering with a large, nationally recognised organisation undergoing significant transformation and investment to appoint a Head of Financial Planning.
This is a highly visible role, reporting directly to the Director of FP&A, responsible for shaping and delivering the organisation's end-to-end planning, budgeting and forecasting framework.
Working closely with senior finance and operational leaders, you will ensure that strategic plans, annual budgets and in-year forecasts provide robust insight to support decision-making across a complex, multi-faceted business.
The position offers the opportunity to influence business performance at scale, lead planning transformation initiatives and play a key role in enhancing forecasting capability, governance and financial insight.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the organisation's strategic planning, annual budgeting and forecasting processes, ensuring accuracy, consistency and timely delivery.
- Own the annual planning calendar, establishing key milestones, dependencies and governance across all planning activities.
- Develop planning assumptions, guidance, templates and submission requirements to ensure consistency across business units.
- Consolidate plans and forecasts from across the organisation, producing insightful analysis and executive-level reporting.
- Lead short and long-term cash flow forecasting, providing visibility of liquidity, risks and opportunities.
- Partner with senior stakeholders on business transformation and change initiatives, providing financial leadership and challenge.
- Drive continuous improvement in planning, forecasting and reporting processes through simplification, standardisation and automation.
- Work closely with finance systems teams to optimise planning and forecasting tools and enhance reporting capability.
- Lead, mentor and develop a high-performing planning team, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
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This role will best suit a professional with significant experience leading planning, budgeting and forecasting within a large, complex organisation, as well as proven track record of owning enterprise-wide planning processes and coordinating multiple stakeholders across a complex environment.
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Given the exposure of the role, we are ideally seeking candidates who have experience with planning and forecasting platforms such as Anaplan, OneStream, SAP Analytics Cloud or similar.
Operating a hybrid model with their London office, please do apply to hear more.
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