Financial planning and analysis manager

Financial Planning and Analysis Manager
12 months fixed term
Full time: 34.5 hours. We welcome a conversation with you about the flexible working options available at Macmillan
Location: Hybrid Home/London is preferred as stakeholders are based mostly in London, however we will consider home-based only applicants residing in the UK
Salary: London £60,000 - £66,000, National £56,500 - £62,500
Closing date: 27 March 2024 at 23:59
About the role
The Financial Planning and Analysis Manager is responsible for co-ordinating Macmillan’s planning and budgeting process and delivering regular management reporting to the Executive Strategy Team and Board of Trustees to support effective and timely decision making.
Responsibilities will include:

• Managing and developing Macmillan’s planning and budgeting process, which includes the Financial planning cycle
• Consolidating Directorate planning outputs into a financial plan for Macmillan
• Working with the planning team across Macmillan to ensure Financial planning and corporate planning processes and outputs are aligned.
• Supporting longer term Financial planning (e.g. 3-5 Year Plan) through financial modelling and analysis.
• Preparation of consolidated monthly performance reporting to the Executive Strategy Team and Board of Trustees, ensuring the integrity of data and providing insightful analysis and commentary to support business decisions. This includes owning the production of Financial KPIs, including charitable expenditure ratio, efficiency ratio and liquidity.
• Working with the performance and insights team to ensure financial reporting and KPIs aligns to the wider performance framework (balanced scorecard approach)
• Oversee cost centre level management reporting process and outputs performed by Finance Business Partners
• Analysis of Macmillan’s financials to understand drivers and insights to inform decision making. 
• Work with the Finance Systems team to ensure our systems support our planning and reporting processes. 
• Identify and support the delivery of process improvement initiatives and support any new system enhancements or tools that would impact on the FP&A team.

About you
To be successful in this role, we would expect applicants to demonstrate how they meet the following skills and experience in their application:

• A relevant accountancy qualification – CIMA, ACCA, ACA or equivalent
• Strong technical finance knowledge.
• Demonstrable advanced excel skills.
• Significant management reporting experience within a complex organisation.
• Experience of supporting (including costing) high level organisational strategy and linking to the financial plan.
• Financial modelling and report writing experience, including delivering complex financial information to people outside of Finance.
• Experience of proactively improving processes and outputs.

Recruitment Process
The application deadline is 27 March 2024 at 23:59.
To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all of our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed so that shortlisting is based solely upon the suitability of the candidate’s experience and application content.
About us
Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions. We strive to build a more diverse organisation, where everyone feels empowered to be their best self to work.
We welcome applications from everyone who meets the criteria and strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another ethnic minority background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Macmillan. Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our internal employee representation body, ‘Our Voice’ and 8 Employee Network groups help us promote fairness and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people.