Controlling & Planning Analyst

Salary: From £35,983 pa dependent on experience

Location: Milton Keynes

Hybrid Working: Our current hybrid working policy requires a minimum of 60% of working time to be based in the Milton Keynes office; flexibility is expected to meet the needs of the business and the role.

Hours / Contract Type: Full time, permanent – Working 35 hours per week

Closing Date: 30/06/2026. We reserve the right to close the advert earlier if we receive a high volume of applications.

About the Role: Do you have a sharp eye for detail, a curious mind and are prepared to delve into our data to help steer our organisation? If this sounds like something you might be interested in, then please read on. We’re looking for a Controlling & Planning Analyst to play a key role in delivering accurate financial planning, forecasting and insight to support effective decision‑making and the achievement of our financial and performance objectives.

What you’ll be doing:

• Assist with regular reporting and insight in line with Controlling guidelines, helping us steer business decisions and achieve our goals.
• Produce high‑quality internal data and insight, consistently meeting mandated deadlines.
• Attend cost‑centre meetings with business stakeholders on variance analysis to highlight deviations between actual overhead costs and the budget.
• Maintain a strong understanding of Controlling definitions across all reporting lines, ensuring alignment with Central Controlling standards.
• Create, review and maintain procedural and process documentation to support consistent, transparent reporting governance.
• Support KPI analysis and reporting, developing insight into performance impacts on the Profit and Loss.
• Contribute to the build, development and ongoing maintenance of robust financial models supporting planning rounds and forecasting.
• Own forecasting reports and inputs across areas of commercial performance, Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet, applying this insight throughout planning and forecasting cycles.

What you’ll bring:

• You’ll be a curious and commercially minded analyst who enjoys working with data and turning complexity into meaningful insight.
• You’ll have a strong delivery mindset with a passion for accuracy, continuous improvement and using analysis to influence decision‑making and performance.

Essential Experience & Skills:

• Strong data literacy working with large and varied data sets.
• Experience in financial planning and forecasting through relevant roles, projects or professional training (desirable).
• Proven reporting and analytical experience, with the ability to derive insight from multiple data sources.
• Advanced Excel capability (e.g. IF formulas, INDEX functions, PivotTables), gained through formal training or practical use.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
• Confidence in developing, interpreting and working with a variety of data sets.
• Strong numerical reasoning with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to challenge and improve existing processes.

What’s in it for you?

• Bonus: Discretionary 10% on‑target bonus (based on personal and Group company performance).
• Pension: Employer pension contribution of 9% (based on employee contribution of 3%). VWFS will pay 6% if employee chooses a 2% employee contribution.
• Car schemes: Choice of Employee Car Ownership (ECO) scheme for petrol/diesel and hybrid vehicles plus car insurance. OR Company Car scheme for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) plus car insurance cover for you and a partner/eligible family member.
• Other benefits: From day 1 we provide income protection, life assurance (4× salary), retail discount vouchers, access to Care Concierge (a service to support carers of adults), along with other salary sacrifice options including a will‑writing service and cycle to work (subject to scheme restrictions).
• Following successful completion of probation, you will have access to private medical insurance for you (with the option to buy additional family cover), access to our loan car scheme for up to 2 cars for your partner or eligible family members (subject to scheme restrictions) and during our annual benefit window you can purchase critical illness cover and dental cover, so you can select the benefits that matter to you.
• We invest in our people and are passionate about driving development. You’ll have access to LinkedIn Learning via our Degreed platform as well as a host of professional development programmes and opportunities to build your technical and soft skills so you can further develop your career. We also offer mentoring schemes and reciprocal partnerships recognising that we can all learn from each other in the flow of work.

Why join VWFS UK? You’ll have the opportunity to make a difference by helping us to achieve our mission. Our mission is straight forward; we want to be 'The Key to Mobility'. That means we make getting from A‑to‑B as easy and simple for as many people as possible. To truly meet the mobility needs of people in a changing world, our offering goes beyond traditional vehicle financing. We do this by providing a range of finance and aftersales products on Volkswagen Group vehicles, as well as developing innovative mobility products designed to solve real problems and support our customers.

Additional Information: VWFS is proud to be an inclusive employer and encourages applications from a diverse range of candidates. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion isn’t just a statement for us, we encourage and aspire for all our colleagues to be their 100% self. If you need any reasonable adjustments to assist you with the application and/or recruitment processes, please contact our Resourcing Team. This role does not meet the UKVI’s criteria for the skilled worker sponsorship route, therefore we are unable to accept candidates requiring sponsorship for this role.