Senior Financial Planning and Analysis Manager
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Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland; Cardiff, Wales; Edinburgh, Scotland
Overview
Do you have a strong financial background, analytical mindset, and great leadership and people skills? Are you interested in driving great business results and enabling wise investment decisions for Companies House, facilitating meaningful policy outcomes? If so, we would love to hear from you. This is an exciting opportunity to join Companies House as a senior leader within our Finance and Commercial Directorate. As a Senior Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Manager, you will oversee and lead analysis to secure our medium to long-term funding and ensure our highest-value investments achieve value for money. In doing so, you will play a critical role in ensuring the organisation can continue to offer brilliant services, achieve our Transformation and legislative reform agenda, and meet the highest standards for public expenditure.
You will have the opportunity to apply your financial and analytical skills to creative problem-solving every day. You will use modern tools and platforms such as PowerBI and Alteryx to develop and maintain complex financial models and communicate insights to stakeholders. You will have the opportunity to develop your management, mentoring and development skills, with an FP&A Manager reporting to you. You will be part of a dynamic, high-performing, curious and supportive team of circa 10 FP&A and Economics experts. Collectively, we are Companies House’s centre of excellence on complex financial modelling and medium to long-term forecasting, long-term affordability and funding advice, and value for money. We work closely alongside Finance Business Partners, Technical Accountants, Finance Operations and Commercial experts to offer a cohesive, end-end Finance and Commercial service to the organisation.
Companies House offers a flexible and welcoming culture that promotes a healthy work life balance as well as a proactive approach to wellbeing that allows us to be our best at work. We recognise that people are the key to our success so offer a fantastic benefits package including flexible working with 30 Days Annual Leave, 8 Bank Holidays and 1 Privilege Day as well as enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme with a contribution rate averaging 28%.
Role and Responsibilities
This role is one of two Senior FP&A Managers within Companies House, and one of four FP&A experts in total. The team are collectively responsible for three main analytical outputs:
* Modelling to identify medium and long-term costs of our major investments
* Long-term costing to inform Spending Review bids
* Development and maintenance of our business-critical fee model, which informs the prices of our services
It is expected that the postholder will lead the modelling on fee values and, around this, also support on should-cost modelling for major investments, and Spending Review bids.
Responsibilities
* Iteration, development and maintenance of our business-critical fees and funding model
* Leading annual reviews of our fee values to ensure fees are set at the cost-recovery level, in line with Managing Public Money principles
* Direct line management and development of a Band E/SEO FP&A Manager
* Cost modelling and forecasting for major investments and projects
* Providing analysis and insight on technical topics including risk quantification and contingency, contract pricing design, modelling assumptions, efficiency quantification and sensitivity testing
* Communicating analysis and insight to internal and external stakeholders of all levels – including Board members
* Continuous improvement within the FP&A function and supporting broader organisational development and financial maturity
Location and Working Arrangements
You will be aligned to either our Cardiff, Belfast or Edinburgh office, with regular attendance expected. Hybrid working is available and you will agree a pattern of attendance with your manager.
Working Hours
This is a full-time position of 37 hours per week. For candidates seeking part-time, the minimum hours we can accommodate is 30 hours per week.
Please note: Companies House cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign.
Person specification
The Successful Candidate Must Demonstrate the Following Essential Criteria
* CCAB/CIMA (or equivalent) qualified accountant with evidence of ongoing continuing professional development
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Substantial financial leadership experience
* Strong grounding in analytical and modelling principles and techniques
* Ability to work on own initiative and under pressure to tight deadlines
* Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills
The Successful Candidate May Demonstrate the Following Desirable Characteristics
* Experience within the civil service and handling of government budgetary arrangements
* Knowledge of activity-based costing methodology
* Understanding of should cost models
* Knowledge or experience of options appraisal
* Experience in a financial planning or leadership role
* Experience using data analytics tools (e.g. Alteryx)
* Experience using data visualization tools (e.g. Power BI)
Technical Skills
Government Finance Function Strategic Finance Grade 7 technical framework with emphasis on strategic analysis and insight, oral and written presentation, data interpretation, influencing senior leaders and Ministers, and proactive problem resolution.
Qualifications
CCAB/CIMA (or equivalent) qualification (proof will be required for a successful appointment)
Behaviours
We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
* Making Effective Decisions
* Delivering at Pace
* Communicating and Influencing
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