Financial Planning

3 days ago

Milton Keynes MK HG, United Kingdom Volkswagen Financial Services (UK) Limited Full time
Financial Planning & Analysis Manager - Milton Keynes

Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Full-time permanent opportunity

Closing Date: 6th January 2025

Salary Range: Starting salary from £46,237 depending on skills and experience

Benefits: Company car, fuel card, annual discretionary bonus, generous pension scheme, private healthcare, private health insurance and more

Your key purpose of the Financial Planning & Analysis Manager role is to act as a management accountant and business partner to the Chief Information Officer (CIO), along with cost centre managers and the Senior Leadership teams to proactively develop and maintain robust reporting, financial modelling and provide advice in relation to long term planning

You will also provide strong budgetary controls across IT and the System/Product teams and, be directly involved in cost-benefit assessment, commercial viability and sign off for business outcomes

This is what you could be doing:

  • You'll be a Management Accountant acting as a business partner to provide clear sound advice and reporting to key IT & Change (Ways of Working) colleagues regarding the long-term planning and budgeting of all IT expenditure
  • Management and quality assurance of business outcomes by displaying diligence through challenge and robust analysis on all business outcomes to guarantee quality and accuracy
  • Produce Quarterly Planning (QP) forecasts, indicating expected spend and value achieved across system/product teams and other change teams over the QP sprints
  • You'll review and report on actual spend and delivery against forecast for each QP sprint for presentation to Board of Management (BoM) & SteerCo
  • Work closely with the Reporting & Resourcing Specialist to develop excellent reporting to assess internal and external resource spend on business change
  • Design and develop methods to track and report on benefits realisation for business outcomes, becoming an advisor for teams looking to implement a change control phase
  • Monitoring benefits captured in QP Sprints to report on delivery against plan and challenge deviations from plan
  • You will develop a good understanding of all IT elements including hardware, service & maintenance contracts, licensing, consulting and HQ services to provide a rigorous input into monthly forecasting, budgeting and long term planning
  • Conduct regular meetings with cost centre managers to discuss actual spend, challenge key variances and forecast review on a monthly basis. Align a live phased forecast with Cost Centre managers to load to tableau
  • Perform month end review of all IT cost centres, ensuring that journals are raised as necessary to correct posting errors so that all costs are correctly allocated for BoM and HQ reporting purposes
  • Produce monthly finance slides for UK Board of Management and IT SLT, highlighting risks and opportunities
  • Analyse and calculate monthly accruals and prepayments for all IT Communications, Support and Maintenance to ensure that costs are accurately reflected in the correct periods

How could you add value:

  • Accountancy experience would be great or the equivalent financial planning experience, you may also be ACCA/CIMA qualified
  • You'll have excellent stakeholder management skills as this role will work closely with all levels
  • Experience of report development with MS Excel with strong analytical, financial modelling and reporting skills
  • You are able to communicate at all levels within the company including Board of Management and confidently challenge and make recommendations regarding forecasting and budget setting
  • You have a methodical and disciplined approach to work with ability to work without supervision and meet your deadlines
  • Able to interrogate and analyse data and identify the root of a problem and provide solutions
  • You also have experience of budgeting and forecasting discussions and analysis

What's in it for you?

An excellent remuneration, Company Car, discretionary bonus and 27 days holiday in addition to statutory bank holidays plus much more

We are passionate about employee development and offer ongoing support and training to help people achieve their career aspirations. Whether that is to become the next leader within our business or to develop your current tool kit of skills, we support many cross-functional opportunities. We want you to achieve at your best and enjoy a successful career with us

About Volkswagen Financial Services

Our mission is straight forward, we want to be 'The Key to Mobility'. What does that mean? To make getting from A-to-B as easy and simple for as many people as possible. To truly meet the mobility needs of people in a changing world, our offering goes beyond traditional vehicle financing. We do this by providing a range of finance and aftersales products on Volkswagen Group vehicles, as well as developing innovative mobility products designed to solve real problems and support our customers.

Volkswagen Financial Services is committed to being an inclusive employer and we welcome applications from everyone. Diversity and Inclusion is not just a statement for us and we are nurturing an environment where everyone can be their 100% self. If there is anything we can do to support you being your 100% self during our recruitment process, please let us know and we will support you as best we can

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