Senior Manager Financial Planning Analysis - City of London, United Kingdom - Pear Talent - Finance Recruitment

Description

Job Description

SENIOR MANAGER, Group FP&A

• Essential experience: FP&A in Financial Services
• £90,000 - £110,000 + package (incl. bonus, pension etc.)
• City of London, flexible WFH 3 days p/wk

Pear Talent is representing a global Financial Services group who are looking for a Senior FP&A Manager in their largest division. This is a key succession hire for the Head of the team so you'll deputise for the Head of FP&A and play a leading role in delivering all business critical FP&A whilst partnering with key senior/Exec stakeholders at both Group Finance and across the underlying businesses to provide business performance insight and both inform and influence key commercial decision making.

Key accountabilities:

• Lead the financial analysis of the business performance, plans and forecasts.
• Lead the business target setting for the annual planning process, ensuring that the divisional strategic plans align into a coherent Group strategic plan and that shorter term financial targets also reflect both the Group's and division's strategy.
• Deliver high quality insight to both support and influence strategic decision making, as well as provide ad-hoc commercial analysis.
• Regularly meet with divisional leadership to ensure a comprehensive understanding of their business, strategy and financial performance.
• Proactively and critically review and challenge reported performance against plan, preparing insightful briefings for Exec/Board.
• Continue development of processes to improve the quality, speed and usefulness of metrics and insights.

Required experience:

• Qualified Accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA or equivalent)
• Significant experience within FP&A gained in Financial Services
• Ability to lead commercial and strategic analysis and evaluation, as well as make significant contribution to driving and improving the underlying performance of the business.
• Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to both constructively challenge and influence at all levels, including an Exec level.
• It's important that you can demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge of the markets in which the business operates, their products, strategies and risks, as well as a detailed understanding of the drivers of business performance.

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