FP&A Manager - Anaplan in London

You will be part of a team that values continuous improvement, innovation, and ownership. If you're ready to make an impact and grow with a business that's investing in its future - this is your opportunity. We are seeking an experienced Anaplan Modeller to design, build, and optimise automated forecasting and budgeting capabilities to support a rapidly evolving insurance finance environment. This role will be integral to transforming our planning processes, enhancing visibility across the business, and ensuring the organisation can forecast with accuracy, speed, and control. The modeller will work closely with FP&A, Finance Business Partners, and our data team to develop scalable, best practice Anaplan solutions that support strategic decision making.

Key Role Accountabilities

• Design and build Anaplan models to support automated forecasting, budgeting, scenario modelling, and multi-dimensional analysis.
• Lead the development of connected planning across Finance, integrating underwriting, claims, operational and other insurance specific data sources.
• Translate complex business requirements from Finance and FP&A teams into robust technical Anaplan solutions.
• Partner with data and FP&A to ensure models are fed from trusted, automated data pipelines (including data lake and source systems such as SUN, HRIS, Tagetik, etc.).
• Implement structured planning cycles (monthly, quarterly, annual) and enhance process visibility through well designed modules, dashboards, and UX pages.
• Optimise existing structures and introduce automation to improve accuracy, turnaround times, and user experience.
• Own model governance, documentation, version controls, and data integrity.
• Train end users, ensuring adoption and embedding of new processes.
• Continuously improve planning processes and propose best practice solutions aligned with business needs.
• Support wider FP&A transformation initiatives and integration of reporting tools such as Power BI.
• Future proofing and development of automated solutions for reporting.
• Working collaboratively with the other members of the Specialty FP&A and wider finance team.

Qualifications & Capabilities

• Expert level hands on proficiency in Anaplan model building (ideally certified as Model Builder / Solution Architect).
• Strong understanding of insurance financials, including premiums, claims, commissions, expenses, and drivers.
• Ability to design scalable, modular, high performance Anaplan architectures.
• Strong formula and model optimisation skills, including sparsity reduction, ALM, and UX design.
• Excellent data modelling, data management, and integration capability.
• Ability to translate commercial and financial processes into connected planning models.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with ability to work cross functionally.
• Advanced Excel and Power BI literacy with ability to validate outputs and support reporting.

Person Specification

• Ability to influence others and demonstrate confidence when dealing with senior stakeholders.
• Highly ambitious with a growth mindset - You will be working in a fast-moving environment where priorities shift and agility is essential. You'll embrace change, adapt quickly, and help others do the same.
• Previous experience building and maintaining Anaplan models in a Finance or FP&A environment.
• Experience working within insurance, reinsurance, or wider financial services preferred due to domain complexity.
• Demonstrated success automating forecasting and budgeting processes.
• Background partnering with FP&A teams during transformation or system implementation programmes (e.g., new planning tools, data lake integrations).
• Experience working with source systems common in insurance finance environments (e.g., SUN, HRIS, consolidation tools).
• Proven ability to deliver high quality outputs under tight deadlines and during peak planning cycles.
• Team player with a 'can-do' mentality who is able to work independently and collaboratively.
• Curious and confident in challenging the status quo to improve processes and outcomes.
• Organised and self-motivated, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.

Fixed Benefits

• Employer pension contribution of 10% (providing you, the Employee provides 5%).
• Good work life balance - flexibility to suit you.
• Competitive salary.
• Life Assurance at X4 of your base salary.
• Group Income Protection.
• Generous Annual Leave entitlement.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Group annual bonus scheme.