Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

Aster Group UK; Wareham; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Wellbeing support

Pension and life cover

Volunteer hours

Discounts on entertainment

Enhanced leave

Job summary

Aster Group is seeking an FP&A Manager to lead the Group’s long-term financial planning and scenario modelling. You’ll partner with senior stakeholders to deliver robust financial information for strategic decisions, regulatory requests, and treasury needs while driving continuous improvement in FP&A processes.

The role is hybrid with home-based work and mandatory visit to Wareham office twice a month; strong finance acumen and stakeholder influence are essential.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with experience in long-term financial planning and scenario modelling.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and maintain the Group’s annual financial plan and updates.
• Coordinate collection and consolidation of planning information across the Group.
• Support production of presentations and reports for Executives and Board meetings.
• Prepare the annual Financial Forecast Return (FFR) and regulatory submissions.
• Develop and maintain financial models to support strategic planning and business cases.
• Produce scenario analyses, stress testing and mitigation assessments for decisions.

Skills

Budgeting & forecasting

Financial analysis

Stakeholder management

Continuous improvement

Attention to detail

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Job description

Location: Flexible - within commutable distance to Wareham

Hours: 37 hours per week

We’re looking for a FP&A Manager to play a key role in supporting the delivery of the Group’s long-term financial plan. The role is responsible for producing high quality financial analysis and insights that enable effective decision making across the organisation.

Working closely with the Head of FP&A and Investor Relations, the FP&A Manager leads the preparation and maintenance of the Group’s long-term financial plan and scenario modelling. The role ensures that robust financial information is available to support strategic initiatives, treasury activities, investment decisions and regulatory requirements.

The FP&A Manager acts as a trusted business partner to finance and operational stakeholders, driving financial discipline, improving reporting capabilities and supporting continuous improvement within the FP&A function.

What you’ll be doing

• Preparing and maintaining the Group’s annual financial plan and subsequent updates, ensuring outputs are accurate, robust and delivered to agreed timescales.
• Coordinating the collection, review and consolidation of financial planning information from across the Group.
• Supporting the production of presentations and reports for Executive Team, Board and Committee meetings.
• Preparing of the annual Financial Forecast Return (FFR) and other regulatory submissions, ensuring consistency with the approved business plan.
• Developing and maintaining financial models, supporting strategic planning, investment appraisal, funding requirements and business cases.
• Producing detailed scenario analysis, stress testing and mitigation assessments to support strategic decision making and regulatory requirements.
• Monitoring and analysing relevant Group KPIs, identifying risks, opportunities and emerging trends.
• Supporting the production of business plan outputs required for credit rating submissions and lender reporting.
• Overseeing the production and development of the Group’s monthly cash flow forecast.
• Maintaining and developing financial plannings models used to analyse covenant compliance, financial capacity and development programme sustainability.
• Supporting interest budget and forecasting processes through analysis of financial planning outputs and funding assumptions.
• Producing reports and analysis form Treasury and Finance Committee meetings and other governance forums.
• Supporting the Head of FP&A and Investor Relations in producing content for investors.
• Any other support as required to the Head of FP&A and Investor Relations or Director of Treasury.
• Leading on ad hoc financial analysis and modelling projects in support of corporate objectives.
• Identifying opportunities to improve financial processes, reporting automation and data accessibility through existing and emerging finance technologies.
• Ensuring high standards of data integrity, governance and auditability across all planning and forecasting processes.
• Building effective relationships with stakeholders across Finance and the wider organisation to improve financial understanding and decision making.

About you

You will be a qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with experience in long term financial planning and scenario modelling. You will have:

• Strong technical accounting expertise, including consolidation and statutory accounts.
• Experience leading budgeting, forecasting and/or financial planning processes.
• Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to translate complex financial information into clear actionable insight for senior stakeholders.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with confidence to influence senior leaders and build effective relationships.
• A proactive and continuous improvement mindset, with the ability to lead change and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.

This is a hybrid role enabling you to work from home. The team do come together in the Wareham office twice per month, so being able and happy to travel for this is a must.

What’s in it for me

We invest in our colleagues because we know if they have a better day at work, the service our customers receive will be better. The Aster Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes things like:

• Flexible working – whilst some roles need to be carried out in a specific place at a specific time, where possible we encourage our colleagues to work to their own schedule at a location that suits them, their team and our business’ needs
• A focus on colleague wellbeing – workshops, an employee assistance programme offering counselling and support, mental health training and a health cash plan
• We invest in colleagues’ careers and development through our leader and colleague development frameworks
• Defined Contribution Pension and attached life assurance
• Volunteering hours available to all colleagues to enable them to give back
• Savings at cinemas, gyms, holidays, days out, various shops and eateries and lots more
• Enhanced leave
• We celebrate colleagues who go above and beyond with a range of personalised recognition initiatives

We create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity and believe that creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work is the right thing to do.

All candidates will be required to verify their right to work in the UK prior to commencement of employment with the Aster Group & it’s subsidiary brands.