Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Build and embed a trusted reporting backbone through strong data integrity, reconciliations, and controls; standardise financial structures and reporting logic across regions; automate and scale reporting models and workflows; and enable high‑quality management reporting and self‑serve analytics that allow users to drill from outcomes to underlying drivers

• Lead the end‑to‑end annual budget and rolling forecast cycles across regions; define and manage planning timetables, inputs, review points, and sign‑offs; ensure assumptions, methodologies, and outputs are consistent and well‑governed; and maintain a clear operating model for budgeting and forecasting

• Provide insightful variance analysis, trend commentary, and forward‑looking scenarios; connect revenue, cost, headcount, and productivity drivers to P&L and cash outcomes; support strategic decisions through modelling and investment analysis; and translate complex analysis into clear executive‑level narratives

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent) with strong post qualification experience 
• Proven experience in a finance leadership capacity
• Builder mindset with high standards for data quality and governance
• Commercially curious, with a track record of driving team performance and challenging stakeholders constructively
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate data into meaningful insight 
• Delivery focussed in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Strong Excel / Financial Modelling, Power BI and enterprise planning tools like Jedox / Anaplan
  
  

• Experience in a PE-backed or fast-growth environment advantageous
• Data handling experience and ETL exposures
• Track record of scaling FP&A

What we offer

• Private Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Parental Support
• Salary-Exchange Pension
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Local Oxford Discounts
• Cycle-to-work Scheme
• Flu Jabs