Financial Planning Analyst, Senior Associate

Job Description

Provides financial and analytical support to the business. This role sits at the centre of Europe FP&A, owning the delivery of planning and reporting outputs that underpin senior decision making.

You will partner closely with the Finance Director for Continental Europe to deliver high‑quality, insight‑led management information while strengthening data, systems and reporting infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the delivery of the Europe plan and forecasts – deliver fiscal plan and quarterly outlooks, coordinate inputs across functions, ensure output quality, alignment and pace.
• Produce ExCo‑grade management information – deliver clear, concise, decision‑focused MI that is trusted as the single source of truth for Europe performance.
• Support executive materials and narrative – translate financial performance into structured insight for CFO, CEO and Board discussions.
• Maintain oversight of the Europe P&L – track cost drivers, headcount and allocations, ensuring accuracy, consistency and clear variance analysis.
• Build and own advanced financial models – develop robust models for forecasting, scenario analysis and long‑range planning with clear business drivers and assumptions.
• Deliver insight at pace – identify trends, risks and opportunities quickly, focusing on what matters for decision making.
• Own Power BI reporting outputs – design and maintain scalable, consistent reporting solutions, ensuring outputs fit senior stakeholders.
• Work close to the data – interrogate data across systems, challenge outputs and understand how data flows into reporting.
• Improve planning and reporting processes – simplify workflows, reduce friction and increase speed and reliability of outputs.
• Raise quality across the team – review analyst outputs, enforce high standards and improve consistency across FP&A deliverables.
• Handle complex ad‑hoc requests – bring structure and clarity to ambiguous questions, delivering actionable analysis quickly.

Required Skills

• Strong FP&A experience across planning, forecasting and reporting within financial services, asset management or similar complex environments.
• Advanced financial modelling capability, building and maintaining budgets, forecasts and scenario analyses.
• Proven ability to produce clear, structured management information and presentations for senior stakeholders.
• Advanced Power BI capability: designing and maintaining semantic models, strong understanding of data modelling, relationships, and DAX, building scalable reporting solutions, ensuring consistency and governance across outputs.
• Strong data mindset – interrogate and validate data across multiple systems and sources.
• Experience working with data warehouses or data lakes to support analysis and reporting.
• Ability to generate clear insights at pace, focusing on key business drivers and decision relevance.
• Strong attention to detail and sound commercial judgement.
• Effective communication and stakeholder management skills, presenting findings clearly and challenging constructively.
• Experience supporting or reviewing the work of analysts and contributing to team delivery standards.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent training and experience in Finance, Accounting, Economics or related discipline.
• Professional qualification (ACA, ACCA, CFA, CIMA or similar) preferred.

Special Factors

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position. This hybrid role requires you to be in the office 3 days per week.

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