Performance Modelling Manager - FTC (12 months) in Slough

To support the Head of Financial Performance Modelling in embedding the Group’s financial performance frameworks and cost allocation models into business-as-usual (BAU) across the full Group – Schroders Public Markets, Schroders Capital, and Schroders Wealth. This role will act as deputy, ensuring the models are not only operationally embedded but also driving commercial decision-making, transparency, and accountability across divisions.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead the embedding and BAU operation of the new Management Cost Allocation Model: Oversee the end-to-end process for monthly actuals and annual budgeting cost allocations, including data sourcing, model execution, controls, and reporting. Ensure the model runs smoothly, outputs are robust, and business users are supported.
• Drive process optimisation and automation: Identify and deliver improvements to reduce the reporting cycle, streamline data flows, automate manual tasks, and enhance overall model efficiency and control.
• Model change and release management: Own the release planning for model updates—prioritising backlog items, coordinating user acceptance testing (UAT), and ensuring all changes are properly documented, governed, and communicated.
• Manage and improve allocation methodologies: Lead the annual review and refresh of allocation basis and service catalogue changes, working with business and technical stakeholders to ensure allocations remain fair, accurate, and aligned to business reality.
• Business partnering and stakeholder engagement: Act as a key point of contact for divisional CFOs, FP&A, Finance Allocations, and technical teams—leading sessions, creating materials, explaining allocation outcomes, supporting business understanding, and driving adoption of the model for commercial decision-making.
• Controls, governance, and documentation: Maintain and improve documentation of model processes, controls (including RACI, RCA), and governance frameworks. Ensure the model is audit-ready and that risks are proactively managed.
• Insight and performance management: Support the interpretation of allocation results, providing actionable insight to business leaders and enabling them to understand, challenge, and manage their cost base.
• Continuous improvement and issue resolution: Proactively identify, triage, and resolve issues—whether data, process, or model-related. Contribute to the ongoing enhancement of both the allocation model and wider performance management frameworks.

The Knowledge, Experience And Qualifications You Need:

• Strong experience in financial performance management, cost allocation, and FP&A within financial services or consulting.
• Hands-on track record of designing, operating, or improving multi-layered cost allocation models (service catalogue/TCO/waterfall) and embedding them into BAU.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, able to influence and partner with senior leaders, technical teams, and business stakeholders.
• Advanced technical skills: Excel, Power BI, and familiarity with EPM/FP&A platforms (e.g. Anaplan, Oracle), data platforms (e.g. Snowflake), and ETL/data automation.
• Demonstrated ability to manage robust controls, data quality, reconciliations, and audit trails in a high-complexity financial environment.

The Knowledge, Experience And Qualifications That Will Help:

• Resilient, adaptable, and thrives in fast-paced, high-change environments.
• Analytical and commercially minded, able to connect detail with big-picture business impact.
• Proactive, curious, and continuously seeks improvement.
• Collaborative, credible, and builds strong relationships across boundaries.
• Strong sense of accountability and ownership; delivers high-quality, robust outcomes.

We Recognise Potential, Whoever You Are: Our purpose is to provide excellent investment performance to clients through active management. Diversity of thought facilitated by an inclusive culture will allow us to make better decisions and better achieve our purpose. This is why inclusion and diversity are a strategic priority for us and why we are an equal opportunities employer: you are welcome here regardless of your age, disability, gender identity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, socio-economic background or any other protected characteristics.