Planning Analyst Needed - Immediate Start Your new company You’ll be joining a leading global organisation operating across a number of sectors. With a strong presence across Europe and beyond, the business is known for its diverse portfolio of products and its commitment to delivering high-quality, cutting-edge experiences to customers worldwide. Your new role As a Strategic Planning Analyst, you will play a key role in financial planning and analysis within a pan-European corporate finance environment. You’ll support annual budgeting and monthly forecasting cycles, consolidating financial data across multiple business categories to deliver accurate, insightful P&L reporting. Working closely with senior stakeholders, you’ll analyse financial performance, identify key trends, challenge assumptions, and provide clear recommendations that support strategic decision-making. You’ll prepare management-level presentations, lead monthly financial review meetings, and ensure financial forecasts remain robust, transparent, and aligned with business goals. This role also offers exposure to process improvement initiatives, including automating reporting, streamlining finance processes, and supporting broader global finance transformation projects. Collaboration will be central to your success as you act as a key liaison between planning, accounting, and finance teams. What you’ll need to succeed To thrive in this role, you’ll bring a strong foundation in financial planning and accounting, alongside the confidence to work with complex data and senior stakeholders. You’ll ideally have a strong understanding of accounting principles and financial statements, advanced Excel skills and strong PowerPoint capability, excellent analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills, clear and confident communication skills, with the ability to influence and challenge constructively, a proactive mindset with a strong sense of ownership and accountability and the ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver under tight deadlines as well as a minimum of 2-3 years’ experience in a relevant finance or analytical role. What you’ll get in return You’ll join a high-performing, collaborative finance team operating within a dynamic international environment. In return for your expertise and commitment, you can expect exposure to senior leadership and strategic decision-making, broad responsibility across forecasting, analysis, and business partnering, and opportunities to develop advanced financial modelling and commercial insight. You will be involved in transformation, automation, and process improvement initiatives, a supportive team culture that values collaboration, accountability, and development, a role that offers both challenge and long-term career progression within corporate finance. What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career. 4796389