Financial Planning and Analysis Manager in Manchester

Move beyond compiling data and help tell the story behind the numbers. As FP&A Manager for Car Rental, you will be the lead FP&A representative for the Cars business unit, owning the end-to-end planning and financial performance insight that underpins a large contribution margin and tens of millions transactions of the vertical. You will lead a team of five analysts (two Senior Financial Analysts and three Financial Analysts), and act as a key finance voice in the departments within the vertical, partnering with them to shape pricing, promotions, supply strategy, product roadmaps, and longer-term investment decisions, that are aligned to delivering against the financial targets and multiyear priorities and strategy plans. Note that this role focuses on the topline and variable P&L (Contribution Margin and above), and doesn’t focus on fixed OPEX and FTE control. You will be accountable for a high-quality FP&A control environment, timely and insightful trading commentary, and an integrated planning cycle for Cars that is aligned with Ground Transport, Trips, and Corporate FP&A standards. You will also work closely with horizontal FP&A teams for Marketing, Strategic Partnerships and Marketplace to ensure their commercial actions, plans and investments are understood, challenged, and translated into clear financial impacts on the Cars vertical.

Key responsibilities

• Business partnering with Cars Vertical, Product & Horizontals: Act as primary FP&A business partner to the Cars Vertical management and department teams, embedding finance into key decisions (trading, pricing, supply, product, and strategy). Provide clear, structured financial narratives on Cars performance, translating complex drivers into concise insight and recommendations for senior stakeholders up to SVP level. Challenge and support commercial decisions on pricing, promotions, rebate structures, and partner contracting, ensuring strong financial discipline and value creation. Partner closely with Strategy, DS&A, and Corporate FP&A to bring together trading, customer, product, and financial views in support of Cars’ strategic roadmap and FP&A GT modernisation objectives. Work in close collaboration with horizontal FP&A teams (e.g. Marketing, Strategic Partnerships, Marketplace) to ensure that horizontal initiatives are understood, that Cars’ perspective is represented in their plans, and that their actions and investments are accurately reflected in Cars performance and KPIs.
• Planning, forecasting & performance management: Own the Cars planning and forecasting cycles (annual plan, guidance, weekly contribution margin projections), ensuring robust baselines, clear assumptions, and alignment to GT and group guidance. Coordinate your team to deliver accurate, timely contribution margin, ABTR, and key driver forecasts across brand, channel, region, business type, and products. Lead month-end and post-close performance reviews for Cars, ensuring high-quality variance analysis vs budget, latest forecast, and prior year, with clear driver commentary and recommended actions. Build and review business and investment cases (e.g. pricing initiatives, promotional campaigns, product changes, new strategic partnerships, and marketing/data/product investments), structuring clear scenarios, sensitivities, and ROI metrics aligned to FP&A standards. Maintain strong alignment with OneStream and Anaplan processes, ensuring that Cars submissions are reconciled, well-controlled, and consistent with FP&A standards and FP&A GT modernisation design.
• Process, tooling & control environment: Maintain and continuously improve robust FP&A controls for Cars, through forecasting, reporting and reconciliations. Identify and lead operational change initiatives within Cars FP&A (e.g. automation, process simplification, revenue driver bridges, standardised reporting), working with Corporate FP&A, horizontal FP&A teams, FP&A Commercial Excellence, BPO and Tech/Data where required. Ensure Cars FP&A ways of working and cadences (e.g. GT FP&A Management Sync, vertical sub-team meetings, monthly performance forums) are used effectively for prioritisation, escalation, and coaching across your team.
• Leadership & people management: Lead, coach, and develop a team of five (2 x F, 3 x E), setting clear goals, expectations, and development plans aligned to the FP&A Career Framework at each level. Create an inclusive team environment that balances high standards with wellbeing, particularly through peak cycles (month-end, forecasting, planning) and periods of change. Ensure clear ownership and robust succession across the team so that critical Cars FP&A processes are not dependent on single individuals. Provide regular feedback, coaching, and career guidance, helping Fs and below build the skills needed to progress their careers in line with the FP&A Career Framework.

Qualifications & skills:

• Proven track record as a credible, influential finance business partner to senior commercial and product stakeholders, ideally within a trading, marketplace, or vertical P&L environment.
• Strong background in FP&A core skills, month-end, forecasting/budgeting, trading analysis, financial analysis and decision support, and stakeholder management at Level F/G or equivalent.
• Experience partnering with both vertical teams and horizontal FP&A teams (e.g. Marketing, Strategic Partnerships) on cross-cutting performance reviews, initiatives, and investments.
• Demonstrated experience leading, coaching, and developing analysts (Fs/Es) while maintaining consistently high delivery standards across cycles.
• Stakeholder management: builds trust-based relationships, confidently challenges and influences decisions, and manages conflict constructively while keeping business and customer outcomes in balance across vertical and horizontal stakeholders.
• Analytical & technical: strong financial modelling and analytical skills, high proficiency in Excel/Sheets and FP&A tooling (e.g. OneStream, Anaplan), experience with SQL or large-scale data sets is an advantage.
• Communication: excellent ability to “talk finance to non-finance”, tailoring messages to different audiences, and producing clear, executive-ready summaries and slide narratives.
• Leadership & people management: able to set vision for the team, balance delivery and development, and navigate ambiguity and change with calm, clear communication.
• Ways of working: organised, proactive, and results-oriented, able to juggle multiple priorities, protect team capacity, and drive continuous improvement in how Cars FP&A operates.

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• Annual paid time off and generous paid leave scheme including: parent, grandparent, bereavement, and care leave
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