At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead strategic planning, budgeting, and forecasting for a large organisation.
- Company: Join a nationally recognised organisation undergoing transformation and investment.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, leadership opportunities, and a chance to influence business performance.
- Other info: Opportunity to mentor a high-performing team and enhance financial insight.
- Why this job: Shape financial strategies and drive impactful change in a complex environment.
- Qualifications: Significant experience in financial planning and stakeholder management required.
The predicted salary is between 80000 - 100000 £ per year.
We are partnering with a large, nationally recognised organisation undergoing significant transformation and investment to appoint a Head of Financial Planning.
This is a highly visible role, reporting directly to the Director of FP&A, responsible for shaping and delivering the organisation's end-to-end planning, budgeting and forecasting framework.
Working closely with senior finance and operational leaders, you will ensure that strategic plans, annual budgets and in‑year forecasts provide robust insight to support decision‑making across a complex, multi‑faced business.
The position offers the opportunity to influence business performance at scale, lead planning transformation initiatives and play a key role in enhancing forecasting capability, governance and financial insight.
Key Responsibilities Lead the organisation's strategic planning, annual budgeting and forecasting processes, ensuring accuracy, consistency and timely delivery.
Own the annual planning calendar, establishing key milestones, dependencies and governance across all planning activities.
Develop planning assumptions, guidance, templates and submission requirements to ensure consistency across business units.
Consolidate plans and forecasts from across the organisation, producing insightful analysis and executive‑level reporting.
Lead short and long‑term cash flow forecasting, providing visibility of liquidity, risks and opportunities.
Partner with senior stakeholders on business transformation and change initiatives, providing financial leadership and challenge.
Drive continuous improvement in planning, forecasting and reporting processes through simplification, standardisation and automation.
Work closely with finance systems teams to optimise planning and forecasting tools and enhance reporting capability.
Lead, mentor and develop a high‑performing planning team, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
This role will best suit a professional with significant experience leading planning, budgeting and forecasting within a large, complex organisation, as well as proven track record of owning enterprise‑wide planning processes and coordinating multiple stakeholders across a complex environment.
Given the exposure of the role, we are ideally seeking candidates who have experience with planning and forecasting platforms such as Anaplan, One Stream, SAP Analytics Cloud or similar. #J-18808-Ljbffr
