Job Overview
The Group FP&A team manages the financial reporting and planning processes across the Group, ensuring the use of all available financial and operational data to optimise decision making. Based in London, you will report to the Group FP&A Head of Reporting & Data Insights and provide key financial forecasting analysis to support executive and divisional management teams. This role plays a critical part within Mitie's FP&A function, delivering high‑quality financial reporting, developing actionable insights, and driving data‑led decision making across the organisation. You will provide key financial analysis for stakeholders including the Group executive management team, the Plc Board, Group finance functions, and Divisional senior management teams.
Responsibilities
Financial Reporting & Analysis
- Own the production of monthly, quarterly, and annual management reporting packs for the Executive team and Board, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and insight‑driven commentary.
- Own and develop Group FP&A data models, dashboards, and analytical frameworks that analyse Group performance against plan, prior periods, and market expectations, identifying key drivers, risks, and opportunities.
- Prepare executive summaries and presentations that translate complex financial data into clear business insights for senior stakeholders.
- Support strategic initiatives such as M&A, capital allocation, cost optimisation, and transformation programmes through robust data analysis.
Data Management & Systems
- Own and continuously improve the Group financial reporting infrastructure, including automation of reporting processes and data workflows.
- Translate complex financial and operational data into meaningful insights using advanced analytics and visualisation tools.
- Partner with Finance, IT and Data teams to improve data quality across the Group, including consistency of data definitions, KPIs, and performance metrics.
- Drive the development of self‑service reporting capabilities for business partners.
Business Intelligence & Insights
- Conduct deep‑dive analyses to identify trends, risks, and opportunities across business units and cost centres.
- Develop predictive models and scenario analysis to support strategic decision‑making.
- Design and implement advanced analytics to enhance forecasting accuracy and business performance visibility.
- Create ad‑hoc analyses in response to executive requests, providing actionable recommendations.
Forecasting & Planning Support
- Support the annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting processes with robust reporting frameworks and variance analysis.
- Develop rolling forecast models that provide forward‑looking visibility on financial performance.
- Analyse forecast accuracy and identify areas for improvement in planning processes.
Stakeholder Management & Business Partnering
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior finance leadership and business unit heads, providing financial insights that drive commercial decisions.
- Collaborate with divisional FP&A teams to drive best practice, challenge assumptions, and embed insight‑led decision making.
- Present findings and recommendations to senior management and cross‑functional teams.
Governance & Continuous Improvement
- Ensure robust controls, governance, and auditability of Group financial models and data output.
- Champion the adoption of new technologies and methodologies that enhance the FP&A function's capabilities.
The role may involve travel within the UK.
Qualifications
- Professional accountancy qualification (ACA / CA / CIMA / ACCA).
- 2+ years of post‑qualification experience (PQE) working in data analytics, transaction services, or similar.
- Proven experience working in a professional services firm, ideally Big 4.
- Ability to work independently and deliver outputs directly to all key stakeholders across an organisation.
- Strong data analytics capability, including experience with large, complex data sets.
- Proficiency in tools such as Excel (advanced), Power BI, or similar visualisation platforms.
- Experience with ERP and planning systems (e.g. SAP, Oracle, TM1, or similar).
- Strong understanding of financial statements, value drivers, and performance metrics in a PLC context.
- Confident, self‑starting individual able to provide proactive solutions to problems without requiring detailed additional review.
- Strong commercial acumen with the ability to link data insights to strategic outcomes.
- Ability to communicate complex insights clearly and concisely to senior stakeholders, with strong storytelling skills that translate data into compelling narratives.
- Strong attention to detail, with drive to identify and implement processes improvements.
Benefits
Our market‑leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle, including virtual GP access, salary finance, flexible holiday, critical illness insurance, high‑street discounts via MiDeals, cycle‑to‑work scheme, life cover up to four times salary, enhanced pension contributions, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan. You may also receive Mitie Stars recognition and cash prizes, including a top prize of £10,000.
Equal Opportunities
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long‑term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, please let us know by emailing Karen Hayes at Karen.hayes@mitie.com.
About Mitie
Since 1987, Mitie’s 80,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, serving clients including household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.
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