Benefits
- 25 personal holiday days per year (with additional 8 public holidays) increasing to 30 personal days after 5 years of service (includes options to buy and sell)
- Hybrid working options.
- Automatic enrolment into the Employee Participation Plan.
- Enhanced maternity leave. Paternity and adoption leave.
- 24/7 free and confidential employee assistance service.
- Medicash health plan offers a wide variety of benefits from cashback on everyday healthcare treatments such as optical, dental and physio treatments, discounted gym memberships and free 24/7 online GP.
- Life Insurance (4 times annual salary)
- Pension matching scheme (up to 5% of salary)
- Support for internal and external accredited courses, secondments and study support.
Role Summary
Reporting directly to the CFO, as Director of Financial Planning and Analysis, you will develop and lead the FP&A practices across the Group and manage the Group Payroll team, collaborating and partnering with stakeholders from across the Group.
You will directly influence budgeting, planning and strategy processes. You must be intellectually curious, detail‑oriented and capable of identifying solutions to complex problems, then roll up your sleeves to drive implementation.
You will own all forecasting and budgeting, including timetable management, presentations to executive management, preparation of Board papers, and collaboration with executive management to ensure appropriate targets across the business.
You will review and prepare ad‑hoc financial and non‑financial analysis to evaluate the quantitative and qualitative aspects of investment opportunities or business cases, working with the wider finance team to keep messaging and reporting consistent across the Group.
You will also support any M&A, strategic opportunities and the development of business cases.
This role is offered on a 9‑12 month Fixed‑Term Contract. The working hours are 40 hours per week, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm, Monday to Friday.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the yearly budgeting processes covering timing, communications, and reporting.
- Set and manage timetables for production of budgets and regular reforecasts, ensuring consistency and alignment with strategic planning.
- Drive accountability through functional budgets and targets, supporting divisional teams to reflect budget changes in reforecasts and communicating to executive management.
- Lead reforecasting of the business as required.
- Analyse financial and non‑financial information to identify patterns, trends and opportunities for growth or cost reduction.
- Develop plans for financial growth and overall responsibility for the Group’s long‑term Corporate Model.
- Provide business‑partnering support to executives and senior leaders, building strong relationships at all levels.
- Review and manage the Group’s cash and cash forecasts, assisting in strategies to mitigate liquidity risks.
- Control cash, reporting weekly and monthly cash flow/forecast variances, and provide improvement suggestions.
- Implement and support other departments with financial modelling, giving analysis and guidance on activities, plans, targets and drivers.
- Develop relationships across the business to enhance the finance department’s profile.
- Lead and provide ad‑hoc analysis and support to finance projects as required.
- Assess financial risk of all business operations, investments and innovations.
- Lead change and innovation that promote continuous improvement within the finance teams.
- Manage the Group Payroll teams.
- Any other duties as required.
Qualifications
- CA / ACA / ACCA / CIMA qualified; significant post‑qualified experience (or equivalent).
- Post‑qualified experience in a senior finance role for a large, multi‑site organisation.
- Proven track record in a listed business.
- Strong financial modelling skills including advanced Excel and knowledge of financial reporting systems (preferably D365).
- Strong accounting skills and a good understanding of finance functions in a group setting, ideally with plc experience.
- Excellent communication skills, confident in articulating financial matters to non‑financial audiences.
- Ability to drive results, with a track record of high performance and improvement delivery to top and bottom line.
- Self‑motivated, able to organise and execute work independently and with minimal supervision.
- Able to operate in rapidly changing environments while remaining well‑organised, proactive and deadline‑driven.
- Highly developed analytical skills, delivering insightful and accurate analysis of complex financial data.
- Strong presentation skills, proficient with PowerPoint or similar to produce high‑quality reports for diverse audiences.
- Experience in problem‑solving and implementing process improvements, especially in internal reporting (e.g., efficient Excel‑driven reports).
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