Marks Sattin are delighted to be partnered with a prestigious client for the recruitment of a Financial Planning & Analysis Manager based in Birmingham City Centre.

As Financial Planning Manager, the purpose of the role is to work closely with several key departments as a Commercial Finance Business Partner, supporting the business achieve its objectives whilst ensuring strong commercial and budgetary outcome for the business.

Reporting to the Head of Financial Planning & Analysis.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Support assigned departments in all financial matters including budget management, budget development and commercial process.
• Develop outstanding working relationship with assigned department and understanding of their operations to enable effective finance business partnering.
• Work with colleagues to develop and understand levels of service assumptions, cost drivers and other assumptions to underpin the detailed budget development across the organisation.
• Identification, reporting and management of financial risks and opportunities for assigned areas.
• Preparation of financial analysis and financial modelling to support members of the Senior Leadership Team in key decision making.
• Monitoring departmental spend and financial commitments, through the finance system, and developing regular reforecasts of estimated outturn spend.
• Responsible for co-ordinating cross-partner reporting with other Partners and liaising with finance representatives from these organisations as required.
• Where required, responsible for monitoring value-in-kind and supporting the Commercial team in generating commercial revenues.
• Responsible for maintenance of budget transfer of knowledge material for assigned areas, ensuring lessons can be learned by other departments and future editions
• Liaise with the Financial Management team to support the smooth running of the finance system, internal controls, accounts payable and financial reporting as it relates to assigned areas.
• Liaise with other corporate functions - Procurement and Legal - to support in compliant execution of contracts and to ensure Financial Planning capture all commitments arising from contracts.
• Input to overall strategic budget management and handling of budget risks and issues.
• Ad-hoc projects as required consistent skillset required for the Financial Planning Manager role.

• Person Specification

• Professional Accountancy Qualification (CCAB qualified or similar - ICAS, ICAEW, ACCA etc)
• Experience in similar finance business partnering role or strong finance background (Audit or Consultancy)
• Excellent understanding of finance systems, controls, processes and procedures.
• Ability to work on multiple projects and deliver high quality work while meeting tight deadlines.
• Strong Excel, IT and analytical skills.
• Ability to generate fit-for-purpose, accurate financial reports with a strong attention to detail
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics for Finance and Operations and Microsoft BI