Group Financial Planning & Analysis Senior SpecialistHours:
35 hours. Hybrid working. Minimum expectation of 1-2 days per week at our Head Office in Skipton.
Closing Date:
Tue, 8 Jul 2025
We are recruiting for a Senior Specialist to join the Group Financial Planning and Analysis team. If you enjoy a fast paced and agile environment, developing and delivering insight and thereby drive business performance and strategy then this may be the role for you.
With a keen eye for detail, being skilled at understandingplex information and succinctlymunicating its meaning, you'll be part of a small team at the heart of the business and optimising member and business value.
Who Are We?
Not just another building society. Not just another job.
We're the fourth biggest building society and mutual organisation in the UK. Mutuality makes us different as we don't have shareholders; we're owned by our members.
Our colleagues say Skipton's a great place to work, and you could be one of them, bringing with you new ideas on how we can keep customers at the heart of what we do.
Whatever your background, and whatever your goals, we'll help you take the next step towards a better future.
Meet The Team
We're strengthening our FP&A team and broadening its remit to cover Group stress testing and forecasting activities and facilitate opportunities which make the most of the power of the Group.
The team you will be joining, Group Financial Planning and Analysis within Group Financial Performance is a team of 9 colleagues working with financial business partners, business lines and executive teams.
Our core role is to understand, report and forecast business performance, being able to explain with insight the consequences of decisions and identifying and rmending corrective actions to achieve strategic goals or mitigate financial risks.
Turning data into insight, insight to action and action to customer satisfaction is central to all we do.
What Will You Be Doing?
You will have the opportunity to:
1. From a Skipton Building Society perspective, support the Head of Group Financial Planning and Analysis in reviewing the Society's stress testing / planning operating model with key stakeholders, adopting a more agile, collaborative and hub approach to key stress testing / forecasting cycles.
2. Support the production of the bottom-up modelling (QRM) of the Society's quarterly stress testing / forecasting and regulatory requirements, liaising with the Homes and Money Finance team to agree key business assumptions and working with the Capital and Group Stress Testing team to deliver financial projections.
3. Assist in the consolidation of Group forecasts and the 5-year Corporate Plan.
4. Through the stress testing / forecasting work identify any balance sheet or strategic vulnerabilities and provide potential improvements / solutions.
5. Delivery of all supporting documentation including ExCo and Board papers.
What Do We Need From You?
To be successful in this role, you will need to demonstrate:
6. Strongmunication skills, with the ability to clearly interpret and concisely explain the impact on the Society ofplex accounting and technical matters.
7. Excellent planning, analytical and modelling skills, enablingplex models to be understood and appropriately challenged.
8. Flexibility and drive to support a changing, growing business in an uncertain environment.
9. Proactive, enthusiastic, self-starter to deliver excellent oues and service.
10. Strong knowledge of Financial Planning and Analysis and technical accounting knowledge with the desire and ability to be the subject matter expert in these areas.
11. Goodmercial understanding and ability to translate operational plans into financial oues.
12. Experience of planning and organising own work to ensure a focus on key priorities and achievement of deadlines.
13. Ideally attained a professional accounting qualification ACCA/CIMA/ACA
What's In It For You?
Skipton values work/life balance and we are proud to support hybrid and flexible working, where possible. We have a newly refurbished head office which offers a vibrant and collaborative working space.
We have a range of other benefits available to you including;
14. Annual discretionary bonus scheme
15. 25 days standard annual leave + bank holidays + rising 1 day per year of service to a maximum of 30 days
16. Holiday trading scheme allowing the ability to buy and sell additional annual leave days
17. Matching employer pension contribution (up to 10% per annum)
18. Colleague mortgage (conditions apply)
19. Salary sacrifice scheme for hybrid & electric car
20. Amitment to training and development
21. Private medical insurance for all our colleagues
22. 3 paid volunteering days per annum
23. Diverse and inclusive colleague networks available for you to join including our Carers and Pride Alliance groups
24. We care about your health and wellbeing - we provide a range of benefits that support this including cycle to work initiative and discounted gym membership
Job ID JR3280