Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

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Job Overview

The Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Manager will be a key role in delivering the forecasting and budgeting processes across the Engineering Services Division, together with the provision of insights and associated commentary to the Divisional Leadership team. The Engineering Services Division is the largest division in Mitie plc, expected to generate £1bn in revenues in FY19-20 (around 50% of the Group's revenue).

The key objective is to ensure all available financial and operational data is used to optimise decision making. The role reports into the Head of FP&A (ES) and will work closely with the Finance Leadership team and the Group Financial Planning & Analysis team.

Main Duties

• Directly support the Head of FP&A to deliver forecasts and the budget to the Divisional Leadership team and Group Finance. This includes working closely with the divisions to deliver detailed analysis and commentary explaining the overall Divisional performance
• Lead the preparation of the monthly management pack and other monthly information, including variance analysis and commentaries
• Support the improvement of the Divisional planning process to ensure that required deadlines, formats and quality of analysis are universally understood and adhered to
• Develop mastery of the reporting suite (Cognos TM1, Hyperion) to ensure the Divisional & Group reporting requirements are met with high quality first time right data
• Generate insights and innovative views of data and taking a leading role in the continued development of Operational & Financial KPI reporting
• Facilitate the financial planning processes - 5 year strategic plan, annual budgets and quarterly re-forecasts.
• Support the commercial understanding of ES through developing robust scenario analysis to identify the potential impact on profitability, working capital, balance sheet and cash flow.
• Acting as a leader across the finance community to deliver high quality analysis, commentaries & insights
• Preparation of presentations to be used at Divisional Leadership team meetings.
• Ad-hoc projects and analysis as required.

What we are looking for

Knowledge & experience

• Professional Accountancy Qualification (ACA/CIMA/ACCA/or equivalent)
• 2+ years experience of FP&A divisional consolidation reporting in a large company company (£500m+ turnover plc or equivalent) environment is required.
• Demonstrable experience of operating in a turnaround environment is essential.
• Experience of Facilities Management consolidated FP&A reporting is required.
• Extensive system knowledge (Hyperion, TM1 and SAP), with the ability to extract data into high-quality board level material.
• Proven ability to generate improvements to FP&A processes and ensuring a fit-for-purpose efficient & top-quality delivery.
• Proven ability to understand complex financial data and present data & analysis in a clear and concise format.
• Highly numerate, with strong data management & integrity capabilitygh level of integrity and a pro-active, independent and structured way of working.
• Comfortable to work in a dynamic environment and thrives in uncertain/ambiguous situations.
• Confident communicator who is able to reach out to relevant personnel across the business in finding answers/influencing outcome.

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial well-being assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

Since 1987, Mitie’s 68,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

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