Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

Football Foundation; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

The Football Foundation is seeking a Financial Planning and Analysis Manager to provide insights for strategic decision-making and ensure financial performance aligns with business objectives. This role involves overseeing financial planning, forecasting, and analysis while fostering collaboration across departments to enhance financial governance.

Qualifications

• Professional accountancy qualification required.
• Expertise in financial modelling and analysis.
• Strong presentation and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial planning and analysis activities.
• Prepare and execute annual budgeting processes.
• Oversee monthly performance reporting.

Skills

Financial modelling

Forecasting

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Presentation skills

Education

Professional accountancy qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Job description

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The Football Foundation are partnering exclusively with Robertson Bell in their search for a permanent Financial Planning & Analysis Manager. The Football Foundation are the Premier League, The FA and the Governments charity that helps communities improve their local football and sport facilities through grants.

This newly created Financial Planning & Analysis Manager will be responsible for providing key insights to support strategic decision-making, ensuring financial performance aligns with business objectives, and embedding a culture of finance business partnering across the Football Foundation (the charity) and the Premier League Stadium Fund (PLSF). Additionally, the role will oversee strategic financial planning, forecasting, and analysis activities across the organisation.

The Role

• Lead and consolidate business partnering in the organisation, ensuring close collaboration with management group, department heads, and other key stakeholders to gather insights and ensure alignment on KPIs and objectives.
• Lead the preparation and execution of the Foundations long-term strategic financial plans and annual budgeting processes in an effective and timely manner.
• Responsible for monitoring and providing the relevant financial information form the various funding agreements with partners.
• Accountable for overseeing the production of the monthly performance packs and associated information highlighting key trends, issues, and opportunities as appropriate.
• Foster collaboration across departments to streamline data gathering, analysis, and planning processes.
• Continually look for ways to simplify and standardise the management accounting and budgeting processes, automating as much as possible and avoiding the need to produce off system analyses.
• Provide supportive line management and guidance to the Business Partner, ensuring their ongoing development, performance, and alignment with departmental goals. This includes holding regular one-to-one meetings, offering clear guidance, open and constructive feedback, and upholding the Foundations Personal Development Review process.
  
  

The Organisation

Since 2000, The Football Foundation has been privileged to make a truly transformative difference to grassroots sport across the country. As a result of funding partners investment, every day they see the incredible impact of the game on physical fitness, mental wellbeing, bringing communities together and the local economy. With the investment from their funding partners the Premier League, The FA and the Government, they are making a big impact. They're helping to transform communities and the lives of individuals through delivering outstanding grassroots sport facilities.

Essential Criteria

• Professional accountancy qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or at finalist stage.
• Expertise in financial modelling, forecasting and analysis with confidence in managing large datasets and deriving actionable insights.
• Strong presentation skills, with the ability to translate complex financial data into clear, accessible formats tailored to varied audiences.
• Experienced in developing financial policies, guiding users with clear and practical processes to enhance financial governance.
• Proven capability in finance business partnering, with knowledge of embedding its principles across an organisation to align financial insights with strategic goals.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify issues and resolve technical issues independently, ensuring efficient outcomes.
• Strong proficiency in extracting and analysing complex financial data, uncovering trends and correlations to support informed decision-making.
• Strong organisational abilities, adept at managing competing priorities within a broad remit, and responding flexibly to changing requirements to ensure seamless operations.
  
  

The position will be based at The Football Foundations head office at Wembley Stadium and requires 2 visits per week to the office, dependent on business need, in addition to attending two-day all team meet ups each quarter. The closing date for applications is 5 th May with first stage interviews taking place on the 1 th5 May.

Applications will be under constant review before the closing date, so please submit your application to our exclusive search agent, Robertson Bell. Apply now to be considered!

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