Director, Group Financial Planning & Analysis

Our client is a large scale, UK headquartered group, with significant global operations.

As Director, Group Financial Planning & Analysis – reporting directly to the Group CFO – your key responsibilities will include:

• Working with senior stakeholders across the organisation to drive group planning, analysis and reporting excellence
• Thought leader on bringing data driven decision making into financial analysis
• Drive ideation and set best practices on forward looking insight
• Drive performance through advanced analytics, scenario planning and portfolio reviews, and lead the embedding into the organisation
• Understand the strategic and operating plans and develop approaches to support objective decision-making across all aspects of business performance
• Collaborate with senior management and business teams to develop and implement relevant metrics to assist in improving business results
• Oversee and run the global planning and forecasting cycle
• Own the 5 year strategic plan and model for the group. Set and communicate multi-year targets based on this plan
• Form the strategic plan. Report on group level performance
• Ad hoc support to M&A agenda

Key requirements:

• Degree educated with a very strong academic profile.
• Professional qualification in finance (Big 4 ACA or CIMA, &/or MBA)
• Experience with large multi-national organisations, and a portfolio of businesses with differing business drivers
• Experience in designing and running a global/regional, multi-year, multi division, multi country planning and reporting process
• Excellent project management skills and proven leadership and communication ability.
• In depth understanding of business, value drivers, customers, competitors
• Experience of operating at senior management level and supporting the board
• A track record of delivery through influencing and building strong relationships
• Able to demonstrate the commercial value of Finance interventions or projects
• A true self starter, with high levels of motivation and enthusiasm