Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

4 weeks ago

Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Trainline plc Full time

We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable future of travel. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels.

Great journeys start with Trainline

Now Europe's number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 125 million monthly visits and £5.3 billion in annual ticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries. We want to create a world where travel is as simple, seamless, and affordable as it should be.

Job Role

In this key business-facing role, you'll be responsible for preparing, reporting, and commenting on P&L costs for the Marketing function and other General Overheads for the Group. You'll bring strong business partnering skills and confidence in presenting financial information to senior non-finance staff, providing meaningful insight to help the business track against its budget and forecasts.

You'll input into the monthly management accounts, using your broader business knowledge to provide meaningful commentary, performance analysis, and explanations of significant variances to budget at a level of detail and tone appropriate for the Board.

Key Responsibilities
  • Business partnering and leading meetings with business heads to present key variance analysis and other commentary on cost areas
  • Developing and maintaining a solid understanding of business risks and opportunities to analyse performance, identify interdependencies, and provide insightful commentary and explain significant variances to budget and forecast
  • Taking a key role in annual budget and ongoing reforecast processes, liaising with the business and utilising understanding to present coherent proposals
  • Preparing month-end journals, balance sheet reconciliations, and supporting working papers, and reviewing the work of junior team members
  • Assisting in interim and year-end audit requirements
Requirements
  • A qualified ACA or CIMA accountant (or equivalent), either newly qualified or with 1-2 years' PQE
  • Strong academic background
  • Analytically minded with a blend of commercial know-how, financial discipline, and technical accounting knowledge
  • Strong interpersonal skills necessary to build key relationships with senior members of the Group's executive team
  • A confident communicator with the ability to deliver messages and plans to fellow stakeholders at all levels
  • Excellent at project and task management with the ability to adapt quickly to new situations and priorities
  • Proactive with a can-do attitude and a desire to take ownership

This role can be based out of our London or Edinburgh office, with hybrid working options available. We offer a range of benefits, including private healthcare and dental insurance, a generous work-from-abroad policy, and excellent family-friendly benefits.

We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days. Our values represent the things that matter most to us and what we live and breathe every day:

  • Think Big - We're building the future of rail
  • Own It - We focus on every customer, partner, and journey
  • Travel Together - We're one team

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