Head of Group Financial Planning

4 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom James Fisher & Sons plc Full time

**Head of Group FP&A**

**London**

**Perm**

**The Role**

The Head of Group FP&A will drive the transformation of financial planning and analysis across the Group by working closely with and mentoring divisional finance teams as well as using technology to assist with the process. You will build strong internal relationships and take a leading role in providing insight, supporting and challenging divisions to develop integrated achievable plans and measure progress and performance against such plans

**Principle Accountabilities**
- Lead the divisional teams in creating a robust financial plan that aligns with JFS’s strategic goals.
- Accountable for the efficient running of the Group’s planning processes, proactively driving improvement opportunities.
- Communicate clear guidelines on group deliverables and ensure timely delivery of requirements.
- Working closely with divisional leadership teams, develop and analyse scenarios to forecast possible outcomes and optimise business plans.
- Provide high quality commercial insight on business financial performance.
- Lead the implementation of a group-wide budgeting and forecasting system.
- Build internal capability to develop robust short and long-term plans.

**Performance Management**
- Collaborate with divisions on creating a set of annual KPIs that are aligned with the Group.
- Simplify KPI report preparation to utilise the existing divisional submissions and sources of information.
- Monitor performance against KPIs to proactively facilitate the required actions.
- Analyse monthly management accounts and draw out key performance trends.
- Prepare and present concise reports for the Board and senior management.
- Develop systems and processes to produce informative reports and drive targeted performance conversations.

**Other**
- Coordinate the preparation and communication of the corporate reporting calendar.
- Review and challenge financial submissions to Investment Committee. Continuously improve submission requirements and templates ensuring clear, concise, standardised financial information.
- Various ad-hoc projects and initiatives

**Qualifications and Experience**
- 7+ years of broad professional financial planning experience required
- Experience in budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis in a complex organisation
- In-depth knowledge of the FP&A Process and financial statements and related capital allocation concepts
- Familiarity with business systems and financial planning tools
- Must be detail oriented to ensure accuracy and quality of output
- Self-motivated, with a proven ability to enact change
- Experience leading and managing complex workstreams and processes
- Able to communicate effectively and concise

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