Finance, Planning and Analysis Manager

The successful candidate will play an important role in the team, supporting the Senior Manager to develop and deliver key performance reporting to the Exec board and Senior Leadership, supporting the monthly in-year financial forecasting process and driving regular analysis and insight across the business to aid decision making.

• Ownership of cashflow forecasting including maintenance and improvements to the cashflow forecasting model, consolidation of inputs from commercial finance teams, clear presentation of variances to budget and the prior year, and reconciliation to the Treasury liquidity forecast.
• Preparation of the 5 Year Cashflow Plan, and the annual cashflow budget, including ownership of timetabling associated with the cashflow elements of the 5YP and budget and communication with the commercial finance managers.
• Support the Investor Relations team by providing analysis and insights for investor presentations.
• Play an integral role as part of a group seeking to improve short and longer term cashflow forecasting across Asda.
• Proactively drive analysis to understand, evaluate, challenge and improve cashflow performance, reviewed as part of the weekly cash meetings with the CFO.
• Support the Senior Manager and broader FP&A team in the planning and forecasting cycle, and in delivering insights to shareholders in Exec-level deliverables and insight.
• Support and drive ad hoc projects as required, strategic and cross-functional in nature requiring co-ordination across multiple stakeholders.

Your key customers will be Commercial Finance teams, wider FP&A team, and Controllership, with opportunities to present to the VP of Commercial Finance.

Essential Skillsets required:

• Obsessed about the Asda customer – can demonstrate an understanding of the customer across different channels & formats and challenge anything that is not focussed on delivering for them.
• Curious, asks questions – being comfortable to continually challenge the status quo. Always questioning why, how and what if? Able to translate answers into a ‘so what’.
• Takes ownership and accountability – highly proactive in reaching beyond the immediate job role to identify opportunities to problem solve and add value, holding themselves and others accountable.
• Be empowered, inclusive and engage – shows a desire to collaborate across the business sharing context and upskilling, acting as one team, delivering with and through others.
• Strong numerical and communication skills – displays diligence and attention to detail, and ability to identify trends and relationships; able to identify, distil and convey key messages simply.
• Relentless focus on transformation – has a change and continuous improvement mindset, feels comfortable with the uncertainty change brings and is always looking for opportunities to make things better.
• Play the long game – enjoys thinking strategically and is not distracted by short term volatility. Able to understand and frame a vision and prioritise key areas of focus to enable delivery.
• Relevant professional-level finance qualification.

Desirable:

• Commercial awareness. A drive to know your business, know your market and know what will make a difference. Understand both the internal and external commercial, operational and financial dynamics of your area. Identify with the Asda customer and where to focus to create value. (Experience desirable, desire essential).
• Strong written communication skills and experience in preparing board-level deliverables.
• Strong financial / MS Excel modelling skills.

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus.
• Company pension up to 7% matched.
• Company Car allowance of £5,700.
• 15% colleague discount in store and online.
• Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated.
• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves.