Financial Planning Manager

Description: Financial Planning & Analysis Manager
Until end of April 2026
Belfast Location (London 2nd choice) 3 days office - 2 days WFH
Inside IR35

This role plays a significant and central part of ensuring the business success of UK Sales & Commercial, delivering financial planning and strategy to shape commercial decision making that enhances the sustainable profitable revenue growth across a range of products and services, in both the medium and long term. The role entails the following activities:
* Management on the planning processes across UK Sales & Commercial finance, identifying and driving governance improvement opportunities
* Management on producing multiple presentational packs with analysis and understanding for the UK S&C LT
* Drive financial analysis and insight to support the Commercial & Operations teams
* Management of the Medium Term Planning (MTP) process and Monthly Forecasting Process
* Management of the Month End process
* Adhoc analysis to drive business improvement on areas such as cost etc

What you'll be doing The skills you'll need
* Coordinating, managing and building key commercial and strategic financial P+L forecasts (Outlooks and MTPs) on a rolling basis.
* Coordinating and managing the month end process
* Leading on the Medium Term Plan annual process ensuring engagement with all relevant stakeholders, quality output is produced, and delivery within the required timelines
* Produce meaningful finance presentation material for the month end analysis, leadership team and UK S&C reporting to Business
* Enusre the smooth running of the Outlook updates required and population into Value Driver Tree (VDT)
* Building and executing plans to deliver projects within the finance team
* Help to business partner the Commercial and Operations teams, ensuring alignment on insight, plans and initiatives going forwards.
* Liaise with UK Business Centre, UK S&C Finance Leads and the GFSS Team
* Ad-hoc analysis and material presentation as and when required. Either Professional Accountancy Qualification (CIMA/ACCA/ACA etc)
* Good spreadsheet modelling and analysis skills
* Experience of using forecasting tools
* Ability to own and deliver results
* Ability to work with & align key stakeholders across multiple business functions
* Creative thinking and innovation
* Constantly challenging the status quo; continually seeks out best practice
* Ability to convey the complex in a simple and meaningful manner
* Good influencer and strong communicator and ability to build relationships across all levels of the organisation
* Awareness of how the role contributes to the strategic aims of the business

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