Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

Company: COREcruitment Ltd
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Location: Greater London
Job Description:

We’re partnering with a fast-growing, investor-backed lifestyle business operating a portfolio of premium, London-based family clubs and nurseries. Blending wellness, co-working, hospitality and childcare, the group is building a unique, multi-site offering in the premium consumer space.

With several sites already live and a strong pipeline of new openings over the next few years, the business is entering a key phase of expansion and is backed by a leading global investment firm.

Reporting to the Head of FP&A, this is a high-impact role at the heart of the finance function. You’ll play a key part in financial planning, performance analysis, and investment decision-making as the business scales.

This is a commercially focused FP&A role with strong exposure to senior leadership, offering a mix of planning, analysis, business partnering, and strategic project work.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead budgeting and rolling forecasts across existing and new sites
  • Analyse performance vs budget/forecast, identifying key drivers and variances
  • Provide insight on revenue trends, margins, cost base, cash flow and KPIs
  • Support new site openings with detailed financial analysis (revenue, costs, capex)
  • Deliver ad hoc analysis to support strategic initiatives and decision-making

Monitoring, Reporting & Insight

  • Track spend against budget, highlighting risks and opportunities
  • Produce monthly reporting packs covering capex, pipeline and ROI metrics
  • Support weekly/monthly trading reports for investors
  • Build and enhance dashboards and reporting tools, ensuring data integrity
  • Present clear, actionable insights to senior stakeholders

Business Partnering

  • Partner closely with Property, Estates and Operations teams
  • Provide commercial input on supplier contracts, build costs and procurement
  • Support and challenge stakeholders to deliver within financial targets

Capex Planning & Investment Appraisal

  • Own the capex budget, forecasts and long-term planning models
  • Maintain a detailed pipeline across new sites, refurbishments and tech investments
  • Build investment appraisals (NPV, IRR, payback)
  • Support Board-level investment proposals alongside senior finance leadership
  • Conduct scenario analysis and challenge key assumptions

Governance & Controls

  • Strengthen capex approval processes and ensure policy compliance
  • Ensure accurate accounting treatment of capital projects
  • Support audit processes relating to fixed assets and capex
  • Drive improvements across reporting, controls and processes

Data & KPI Development

  • Work cross-functionally to improve data quality and reporting processes
  • Develop and refine KPIs as the business scales
  • Identify opportunities to enhance reporting through systems and automation

About You

  • Qualified accountant (ACA / CIMA / ACCA preferred)
  • 2+ years post-qualification experience
  • Strong financial modelling and Excel skills
  • Commercially minded with the ability to translate data into insight
  • Confident communicator, comfortable engaging with senior stakeholders
  • Proactive, inquisitive and comfortable in a fast-paced environment
  • Experience in a PE-backed, multi-site or real estate-led business
  • Exposure to capex-heavy environments
  • Experience with ERP systems (e.g. Business Central)
  • Exposure to data visualisation tools / data warehouses

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Posted: April 4th, 2026