Senior Planning Analyst

Royal Mail; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance or cash alternative

Full family Healthcare

Up to 18% annual bonus

27.5 days annual leave + bank holidays

Pension with generous employer stake

Job summary

Royal Mail is seeking a Senior Planning Analyst to join the Business Planning team in London. The role combines financial modelling with data-driven insight to support group-wide budgeting, forecasting and decision-making.

You will develop cash flow forecasts, build robust models and explore automation and AI to enhance finance processes. The position offers a competitive package, generous benefits including healthcare, pension and flexible options, and opportunities to influence senior

Qualifications

• CIMA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent, or significant FP&A experience.
• Strong planning, forecasting and financial modelling experience.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience working with complex financial data.
• Experience improving or automating finance processes, ideally using Power Query, Power BI or similar tools.
• Ability to turn data into meaningful insight and communicate it clearly.
• Confidence influencing and challenging senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Supporting strategic planning, budgeting and in-year forecasting.
• Developing short and long-term cash flow forecasts.
• Building robust financial models and scenario analysis to identify risks and opportunities.
• Turning complex data into clear commercial insight and recommendations.
• Challenging assumptions and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Improving and automating FP&A processes using Excel, Power Query, Power BI and other technologies.
• Helping future-proof the planning function through new technology and AI.

Skills

Forecasting

Financial modelling

Advanced Excel

Data interpretation

Education

CIMA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent

Tools

Power Query

Power BI

Anaplan

SQL

Python

Power Automate

Job description

Senior Planning Analyst

Permanent, Full time

Salary & Benefits

Competitive salary

Plus:

• £5,500 car allowance or £5,000 cash equivalent
• Full family Healthcare
• Up to 18% annual bonus potential
• 27.5 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising with service
• Pension: access to the UK's only Collective Defined Contribution scheme with industry-leading Royal Mail contributions of over 12%, flexible options to boost your savings, and a guaranteed retirement lump sum*

Finance at Royal Mail is about much more than reporting the numbers. Our teams work at the heart of a large, complex organisation, using financial insight to shape decisions, improve performance and help plan for the future.

We're looking for a Senior Planning Analyst to join our Business Planning team, combining strong financial expertise with modelling, automation and new technology to improve how we plan, forecast and make decisions.

About the role

This role supports Group-wide financial planning, budgeting and forecasting, turning complex financial and operational data into clear insight for senior stakeholders.

There is also a real opportunity to improve how we work, developing better models, simplifying processes and exploring how automation and AI can make Finance faster, simpler and more forward-looking.

Key responsibilities include:

• Supporting strategic planning, budgeting and in-year forecasting.
• Developing short and long-term cash flow forecasts.
• Building robust financial models and scenario analysis to identify risks and opportunities.
• Turning complex data into clear commercial insight and recommendations.
• Challenging assumptions and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Improving and automating FP&A processes using Excel, Power Query, Power BI and other technologies.
• Helping future-proof the planning function through new technology and AI.

About you

We're looking for an experienced finance professional who understands the numbers but can also see the bigger picture. Someone commercially minded, curious and confident challenging existing ways of working.

Ideally, this includes:

• CIMA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent, or significant relevant FP&A experience.
• Strong planning, forecasting and financial modelling experience.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience working with complex financial data.
• Experience improving or automating finance processes, ideally using Power Query, Power BI or similar tools.
• The ability to turn data into meaningful insight and communicate it clearly.
• Confidence influencing and challenging senior stakeholders.
• A forward-thinking mindset and genuine interest in improving how Finance operates.

Experience with Anaplan, SQL, Python or Power Automate would be an advantage

Benefits & Rewards

In addition to the salary and benefits outlined above, you'll also enjoy:

• Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
• Supportive and generous company sick pay
• Funded Dental - As a manager you are eligible to a level of employer funded dental insurance**
• Health Assessment - As a manager you are eligible to an employer funded health assessment every 2 years**
• Benefits Account - With more than 800 retail offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills as well as employer provided and voluntary benefits to suit your lifestyle.
• Your Wellbeing - you and your family have 24/7 access to a range of free services and tools, offering support for physical and mental wellbeing, financial guidance, and social support whenever you need it.

**Available only to permanent employees**

Closing Date: Sunday 22nd November. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.

Job Reference 344962