Head of Financial Planning

1 week ago

Swindon, United Kingdom Arval UK Ltd Full time

**Head of Financial Planning & Analysis**

**About the role**

This challenging role will see you manage and lead a Financial Planning and Analysis team made up of technical experts who between them develop, implement and maintain reliable financial and non-financial information that influences business performance and helps support decision making within our corporate governance framework. In addition, they manage the budget and forecast processes, analysing data to identify trends and make recommendations.

Your focus will be two fold. Firstly, to provide day-to-day management to the team in terms of setting goals, holding regular 1 to 1's, taking care of recruitment needs that come your way etc. Secondly, your team will look to you for leadership and guidance, taking them on the journey as we look to adjust and align our services to business strategy and product changes. They will look to you to set the tone and pace and help the department to understand and then deliver the value add the business needs. Ultimately, you will assist the CFO in ensuring the business meets its financial objectives.

This is an exciting time to join our business as we evolve from pure leasing and grow our market leading sustainable mobility solutions. In addition you will be directly involved in the continuation of the Finance journey as it further simplifies and refines its processes embedding digital solutions

Pay Zone C1

This role is eligible for Hybrid working (up to 2 days working from home per week).

**Salary range: £70-85,000 plus £15,000 bonus, Car/cash allowance (£6.5K pa) & superb corporate benefits**

**About You**

We are looking for a driven, energetic and confident individual with excellent leadership and true business Partnering skills: a natural networker who can communicate with all business areas to understand their priorities, concerns and requirements and then feed this important information back to the team. In addition, you will need to give examples of when you have been hands on to help your team come up with solutions and get the all-important day-to-day work done, as this will be vital to your success here. You will also need to evidence commercial acumen through recommending change and seeing it through, explaining the reasoning and the outcomes. Lastly and unsurprisingly, you will need to be qualified (ideally ACCA/CIMA or ACA) and a proven accountant. Someone with strong analytical skills who is comfortable getting into the detail, understanding the data and coming up with recommendations. Experience with SAS would be the icing on the cake.

**Key Skills required**:

- Proven Leadership and People Management experience
- Driven mentality whilst keeping Customer focused at all times
- Advanced internal stakeholder and partnering skills
- Strong Analytical (Excel) and Accountancy skills
- Experience in the implementation of new ways of working via smart digital solutions
- Commercial acumen and Change Management qualities

As a member of our senior Leadership team, you will also need to conceptually "get it". The "it" is understanding the link between Employee Experience, Customer Experience and Commercial performance - bringing this to life for operational teams across the organisation. Not only will be you be able to clearly articulate our strategy and roadmap, but you will have no problem clearly translating this vision into transactional objectives for your teams, leading by example as a role model Journey Maker.

**What's in it for you?**

Culturally, we are a friendly bunch - more human, than corporate. We expect a lot but know that works both ways so offer our Journey Makers a fantastic employee experience end to end.

All our offices are welcoming and refreshed to reflect our new ways of working in a post-COVID, forward thinking digital and hybrid setting. You will be given the perfect environment to do your work to the highest standards possible, as well as the opportunities to develop your own career.

Being owned by a bank, not only are we part of global brand making a positive difference to the World, but we all benefit from some excellent perks. This being a C1 role you will enjoy enhanced benefits of car or cash allowance (£6,500pa), family Private Healthcare (AXA PPP) and generous annual bonus (£15,000). In addition, you'll receive our standard benefits of Life Assurance, great Company Pension scheme and 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) & your birthday off too

We are a family-friendly employer with a culture based on trust, autonomy and flexibility and believe everyone has a voice and the opportunity to make an impact.

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