Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Our Client:

Highly regarded company with their headquarters in Cardiff looking to fill this exciting role. They have been established for a number of years and have a strong brand in their niche sector.

Recent changes in the senior management team points to an exciting and ambitious period of growth.

The Role:

The Financial Planning and Analysis Senior Manager will play an integral role in supporting delivery of the strategy. The role holder will work closely with the business to embed strategic levers into annual budgets and quarterly forecasts, articulating the key messages to the Board and Executive team.

You will become a trusted advisor to the business using strong analytical and interpersonal skills to provide relevant and insightful analysis, adding value, and assisting in decision making.

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of the annual budget and quarterly planning forecasts, engaging with the business to design and embed proposed strategies, challenging on assumptions where required. This will include articulating the plan to Board in the form of dynamic presentations that illustrate key business issues, insights and recommendations.
• Tracking actual performance vs plan, analysing deviations to identify root causes and presenting corrective or mitigating actions to the business.
• Financial appraisal of business wide pricing strategies including presenting recommendations at Committee.
• Preparing and presenting monthly financial reports for the senior management team and wider stakeholders, highlighting key trends, insights, risks and opportunities.
• Act as a strategic partner to the senior management team, providing recommendations and the ‘so what’ implications to potential future strategies.
• Working across the business to understand key developments in the market place and how they may impact the roadmap for delivery and associated budget/forecast.
• Providing financial analysis and insights to support decision making on projects, investments and operational issues.
• Monitoring of external benchmarking and reporting KPI’s for the Board.
• Support finance and wider business deliverables as required.

About You:

We are looking for a qualified accountant ACA/ ACCA/ CIMA with a number of years post qualified.

You will have excellent communication skills as you will be working closely with team members of different non finance departments.

You will have an inquisitive mindset and be willing to challenge budget holders on their assumptions and budgets.

More importantly we are looking for someone with a positive attitude to change and with an excellent commercial outlook who will support the business achieve its growth plans.