Senior Manager Financial Planning and Analysis in Swindon

As Senior Manager - Financial Planning and Analysis, you’ll lead the Group’s planning, budgeting and forecasting cycles, owning the operational and project cost base and delivering insightful performance reporting and leading an FP&A centre of excellence (team of 5). You’ll provide commercial challenge, financial analysis and strategic insight to support long-term planning and improve decision-making at Executive and Board level. This role is based in our head office in Swindon, with 3 days a week required in our office.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the Group annual budgeting and periodic re-forecasting processes, ensuring alignment to strategic goals.
• Develop robust financial models for scenario planning, sensitivities, stress testing and long-range forecasting.
• Partner & influence with business unit leaders to gather inputs, challenge assumptions and ensure plans are accurate and achievable.
• Line management responsibilities for the FP&A team.
• Deliver monthly performance reporting (KPIs, drivers, cost and profitability), providing actionable insight on trends, risks and opportunities.
• Present performance updates and strategic insights to senior leadership, executive committees and the Board as required.
• Own the operational and project cost base, ensuring robust business cases and identifying operational cost efficiencies.
• Improve FP&A processes, tools and financial systems to strengthen controls, data integrity, forecasting methodology and insight quality.
• Lead, develop and coach the FP&A team, embedding a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration and analytical excellence.

What will you need to succeed?

• Finance qualification (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with 5+ years PQE.
• Proven FP&A / commercial finance experience, ideally within Financial Services.
• Strong understanding of financial services performance drivers and the regulatory environment.
• Hands-on budgeting and forecasting experience.
• Experience using FP&A tools and improving reporting / planning processes.
• Able to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels, including Executive Committee and Board.
• Strong financial modelling, analytical and problem-solving capability.
• Clear communicator who can translate complex financial information into practical actions.
• Confident producing high-quality presentation materials (e.g., PowerPoint) for senior audiences.
• High attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy and good governance.
• Advanced Excel and modelling skills.
• A leadership style that sets clear expectations, drives accountability and builds high performance.

Why us?

At The Openwork Partnership, we're a dynamic, fast paced, and growing business with huge ambition. This is all made possible by the brilliant people who are part of The Openwork Partnership family. We're investing heavily in our colleagues, continuously striving to give them the platform to develop personally and professionally and reach their full potential. We’re also very proud of our culture, as one of the Best 100 Large Companies to work for in 2022.

The Openwork Partnership values, and respects individuality and we are committed to building an inclusive culture and environment which truly recognises and celebrates our colleague’s individual differences and identities – just like our financial advice, for us, it’s personal. We believe everyone can make a difference and your race, religion, disability, and gender will never be a barrier. At Openwork, we have a strong ethic of care for each other where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work. We believe that you will bring your best self to work if you are trusted to choose when, where and how you do it.