Strategic FP&A Manager — Financial Planning & Modelling

Aster Group; Wareham; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Aster Group is seeking an FP&A Manager to drive the long-term financial plan and scenario modelling, partnering with finance and operations to deliver robust insights. You will maintain planning models, produce regulatory submissions, and support governance with clear, senior-level reports.

The role is hybrid, with office days in Wareham twice monthly; expects collaboration with the Head of FP&A and Investor Relations, delivering data-driven recommendations for strategic decisions.

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with long-term planning and scenario modelling experience.
• Strong consolidation and statutory accounts expertise.
• Experience leading budgeting, forecasting and/or financial planning processes.
• Excellent analytical and stakeholder management skills.
• Proactive, improvement mindset; able to lead change in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and maintain the Group’s annual financial plan and updates, ensuring outputs are accurate, robust and delivered to agreed timescales.
• Coordinate collection and consolidation of financial planning information from across the Group.
• Support the production of presentations and reports for Executive Team, Board and Committee meetings.
• Prepare of the annual Financial Forecast Return (FFR) and other regulatory submissions, ensuring consistency with the approved business plan.
• Develop and maintain financial models, supporting strategic planning, investment appraisal, funding requirements and business cases.
• Produce detailed scenario analysis, stress testing and mitigation assessments to support strategic decision making and regulatory requirements.
• Monitor and analyse relevant Group KPIs, identifying risks, opportunities and emerging trends.
• Support the production of business plan outputs required for credit rating submissions and lender reporting.
• Oversee the production and development of the Group’s monthly cash flow forecast.
• Maintain and develop financial planning models used to analyse covenant compliance, financial capacity and development programme sustainability.
• Support interest budget and forecasting processes through analysis of financial planning outputs and funding assumptions.
• Produce reports and analysis for Treasury and Finance Committee meetings and other governance forums.
• Support the Head of FP&A and Investor Relations in producing content for investors.
• Leading on ad hoc financial analysis and modelling projects in support of corporate objectives.
• Identify opportunities to improve financial processes, reporting automation and data accessibility through existing and emerging finance technologies.
• Ensure high standards of data integrity, governance and auditability across all planning and forecasting processes.
• Build effective relationships with stakeholders across Finance and the wider organisation to improve financial understanding and decision making.

Skills

Consolidation

Statutory accounts

Budgeting

Forecasting

Financial analysis

Stakeholder management

Change management

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA

Job description

Aster Group is seeking an FP&A Manager to drive the long-term financial plan and scenario modelling, partnering with finance and operations to deliver robust insights. You will maintain planning models, produce regulatory submissions, and support governance with clear, senior-level reports.

The role is hybrid, with office days in Wareham twice monthly; expects collaboration with the Head of FP&A and Investor Relations, delivering data-driven recommendations for strategic decisions.