Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Location

Cardiff | United Kingdom

Job description

Do you have a strong financial background, analytical mindset and great people skills? Would you like to work in an organisation that prides itself on investing in staff delivering key legislation to combat economic crime and increase corporate transparency? If so we’d love to hear from you.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a progressive and inclusive team within Strategic Finance at Companies House.  You will play a key role in the financial management and influencing the strategic direction of the organisation.  

We are looking for a Financial Planning & Analysis Manager to be a key member of a newly formed Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) function as part of our Strategic Finance Team.

The Financial Planning & Analysis team is an essential part of the finance directorate and play an important role in supporting and enabling the ambitious transformation plans of Companies House.  

There is a strong culture within the strategic finance teams to provide training, mentoring and opportunities to develop, ensuring we support you to maximise your development and to reach your full potential.  Use of new technologies such as Alteryx and Power BI has seen the team win public sector and national finance awards for advancement in automation, analytics and reporting, which has created time for the team to focus on adding organisational value. The team have recently won Public Sector Team 2023 and Rising Star of the Year 2023 at Finance Awards Wales. 

The team support and assist each other and have developed a great team ethos, valuing their colleagues, celebrating success and the embracing the mixture of strengths and differences they possess.

The Financial Planning & Analysis team at Companies House are valued contributors within the organisation and regularly are seen as being vital for the success of our large and complex project delivery: 

“The FP&A function is a real asset and will be integral to understanding the VfM of our major projects over the next few years” – Head of Economics, Companies House.

You’ll have the opportunity to use your experience in finance and accounting through your involvement in a wide breadth of work at the heart of our long-term planning and decision-making processes. You will be using cutting edge data tools on a day to day basis, such as Alteryx and Power BI, to develop and maintain financial models which support projects in ensuring investment decisions are driving value for the taxpayer. 

As a member of the Finance & Commercial Directorate, you’ll be part of a supportive team focused on continuous improvement, training and development to support your progression and ensure as a team, we’re fit for the future. 

You will have a key role in supporting the development and maintenance of medium to long-term financial models, working with colleagues and stakeholders across the organisation and our parent department, to ensure the sustainable funding of Companies House. This includes the review of Companies House fees and Spending Review bids, building upon our funding model which uses activity-based costing methodology. 

You will identify risks and opportunities for our medium to long-term funding, taking mitigating actions where required and providing challenge as appropriate. You will have commercial acumen and be able to operate within a potential environment of ambiguity and uncertainty. 

Working with a range of experts across the organisation, you will analysis our financial and non-financial datasets to gain fresh insights and understand cost to aid you in the production of detailed financial models. Using an iterative financial modelling process using cutting edge software (such as Alteryx) to automate and provide consistency across the modelling process, you will support projects in the development of their business cases. You will also provide expert advice on the risks presented within the financial model, data inputs and assumptions.

You will also produce affordability analysis alongside should cost modelling for our largest and most complex procurements, ensuring compliance with the Green Book best practice, Managing Public Money and other relevant HM Treasury guidance. This includes identifying budgeting and accounting treatments and to advise on the long-term financial impacts of delivering proposed solutions. You will support the business by building relationships with key stakeholders to challenge and influence decision making through expert analysis and interpretation of strategic goals.

The successful candidate must demonstrate the following essential characteristics: 

• CCAB/CIMA (or equivalent) qualified accountant with evidence of ongoing continuing professional development, finalists with a commitment to qualify will be considered 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with and ability to explain financial information to a non-finance audience. 
• A proven track record of being able to influence stakeholder decision making. 
• Evidence of being a self-starting individual who can build trusting relationships with stakeholders and influence them to achieve outcomes.  
• Intermediate level Microsoft Excel skills. 
• Substantial experience in a financial role.  

The successful may demonstrate the following desirable characteristics: 

• Ability to work on own initiative and under pressure with competing demands to tight deadlines. 
• Experience within the civil service and handling of government budgetary arrangements. 
• A knowledge of the application of activity-based costing methodology and data analysis. 
• An understanding of the purpose and development of should cost models. 
• Experience in a financial planning or financial analyst role.  
• Experience using data analytics tools (e.g. Alteryx). 
• Experience using data visualisation tools (e.g. Power BI).   

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£40.68k - £46.12k per annum