Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

e.surv Chartered Surveyors; Kettering; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Financial Planning and Analysis Manager to enhance performance reporting and strategic planning. This pivotal role involves creating insightful revenue reports, conducting market analysis, and delivering robust profit plans. You'll collaborate with finance analysts and lead a team to drive continuous improvement in financial processes. Join a forward-thinking organization that values high-quality work and offers the flexibility of home working with occasional travel to the office. If you're a strategic thinker with a passion for financial excellence, this is your chance to make a significant impact.

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant with FP&A or Commercial Finance experience.
• Strong commercial acumen and strategic mindset.

Responsibilities

• Design revenue performance reporting and KPIs.
• Deliver a robust profit plan aligned with business strategy.

Skills

Financial Modelling

Strategic Planning

Commercial Finance

Communication Skills

Collaboration

Education

CIMA

ACCA

ACA

Job description

Job Profile

Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

e.surv Chartered Surveyors is currently recruiting for an FP&A Manager to drive best-in-class performance reporting, forecasting, and market analysis. Do you have experience delivering the overall planning cycle with high-level business partnering? Are you a strategic thinker with modelling and forecasting experience?

If you excel in communication, collaboration, and take pride in delivering high-quality work, we want to hear from you.

This is a home working role, where regular travel to the Head Office in Kettering will be required on an ad hoc basis.

Accountabilities Include

1. Reporting
   • Design daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly revenue performance reporting and KPIs with insights, leading discussions on implications, next steps, and remediation.
   • Ensure visibility of the operating cost base, its drivers, and opportunities to variabilise, reduce, or exploit resources, with a focus on surveying resources.
   • Collaborate with finance analysts to design, create, and comment on relevant reporting and KPIs.
   • Work with the Head of Finance Change, Technology, and MI to develop MI/BI solutions, including dynamic, self-serve reporting and dashboards.
2. Strategic Optimisation
   • Maintain external market perspective by modelling market, customer, and competitor trends and their impact on projections.
   • Deliver scenario planning for potential business strategies and market assumptions to support strategic planning.
   • Provide profit modelling for various business strategies, including organic growth, acquisitions, market entry, and exit.
3. Planning Cycle
   • Deliver a robust, defensible profit plan aligned with business strategy, including a clearly articulated narrative.
   • Create and own the five-year business plan, one-year budget, and ongoing forecasts, consolidating opportunities based on performance, market conditions, and initiatives.
   • Present plans, budgets, and forecasts visually, with clear transitions, narratives, and commentary.
4. Team & Group Liaison
   • Manage and develop one FP&A analyst, ensuring they are motivated and effective.
   • Drive continuous improvement by automating processes and enhancing technology solutions, working with the Head of Finance Change.
   • Build collaborative relationships across group and divisional FP&A teams to optimize planning and forecasting processes.
5. Essential Requirements
   • Qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA) with FP&A or Commercial Finance experience.
   • Strong commercial acumen with a strategic mindset and the ability to influence business performance.
   • Significant experience in creating and presenting robust plans, budgets, and forecasts.
   • Ability to present business performance and strategies in an engaging, visually compelling manner with a strong narrative.
   • Experience in financial modelling and scenario planning.

Since 1989, we are the UK's largest provider of property risk expertise and residential surveying services. We conduct over one property inspection every 12 seconds and employ more than 600 surveyors nationwide, offering extensive coverage and local knowledge.

We are part of the LSL Property Services PLC Group, which includes Your Move, Reeds Rains, and PRIMIS. We work with lenders, intermediaries, social housing entities, estate agents, and private customers.

Apply

If you meet our requirements and are seeking your next career challenge, or if you'd like a confidential discussion about this role, please contact Loren Worrall at 07800705566 or [e-mail]. Alternatively, apply with your CV and cover letter for a quick response.

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