Financial Planning Manager

• Are you an ACCA/CIMA/ACA qualified accountant with relevant post qualified experience?
• Do you have experience in a finance planning and reporting capacity, supporting key stakeholders?
• Have you led, developed and managed team that support key stakeholders in a commercially focussed directorate?

This well-known London based organisation is looking to recruit an experienced Senior Finance Planning & Reporting Manager to lead a team that is responsible for all aspects of management accounting, through the delivery of financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting using modelling and analysis to support decision making.

Reporting to the Head of Finance, as the Financial Planning & Reporting manager of the team, your daily duties will include:

• Coordinate the Annual Budget and Regular Forecasts, working with Finance Business Partnering Teams to agree timetables and ensure on-time, accurate delivery.
• Mange the practical aspects of the Budget and Forecast processes by ensuring they are up to date, relevant, effective, and documented.
• Prepare month end reporting for the Leadership Team and Trustees, working with Finance Business Partner teams to understand key variances and risks.
• Oversee the preparation of the Monthly Management Accounts, ensuring the data is accurate and captures the key areas of interest for the organisation.
• Lead on improvements in the standardisation, with a continuous focus on delivering high quality, systemised information that will aid decision making.
• Deliver improvements and efficiencies in the way we use systems to deliver our financial reporting by exploring and making use of the available systems.
• Work with colleagues across the Finance team and the wider organisation to drive efficiency and developments in our financial processes, ensuring changes are communicated and documented.
• Manage, supervise and develop direct reports; being accountable and responsible for the work produced by direct reports.

The successful candidate will be an ACCA/CIMA/ACA accountant with significant post qualified and planning, reporting and management accounting experience from a complex multi-faceted commercial business. A commercial focus and analytical approach is a prerequisite whilst being customer and delivery focussed in their approach is essential. You primarily will take responsibility for the finance reporting whilst providing high quality finance support, analysis and advice to the directors and senior management team.

In this key senior finance planning and reporting role, it is essential that you have strong systems, analytical and data manipulation experience to provide first class support to assist across the organisation with key business decisions. You must possess first class interpersonal, communication and presentation skills for this role.