Senior Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

3 weeks ago


Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom Oxford University Press Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior FP&A Manager to join our team at Oxford University Press. As a key member of our Finance team, you will be responsible for leading the development and delivery of our FP&A Forecasting, Planning, and Budgeting capability.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design, innovate, and standardize Forecasting, Planning, and Budgeting processes across OUP to support Finance Business Partners and FP&A Divisional Leads.
  • Interact with and challenge Business Partners and Divisional management teams on assumptions and conclusions to ensure rigour in analysis.
  • Bring additional cross-OUP Divisional or Group function insights to analysis, including market knowledge, historical information, provisions, accruals, and reasons for variances.
  • Develop complex reports, models, and approaches using analysis and problem-solving skills to support projects with incomplete or conflicting data.
  • Analyze existing and forecast finance information to ensure accuracy, providing detailed explanations for errors or variances.
  • Provide advice on cost control to all OUP staff to ensure correct financial processes and procedures are followed.
  • Work with the data team in FP&A to improve data quality and flow.
  • Identify data quality issues and work with the data team to resolve them.
  • Communicate complex OUP finance information clearly to colleagues.
  • Identify and propose alternative approaches and techniques in finance activities, processes, and procedures.
  • Coach team members in development opportunities.

About You

  • Finance qualification or equivalent demonstrable experience.
  • Experience in problem-solving and analysis techniques to define problems.
  • Successful implementation of new ideas.
  • Experience in leading teams to deliver projects to deadlines.
  • Ability to clearly communicate compelling messages to business leaders.
  • Commitment to continual personal professional development.
  • High level of competence in Excel.

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary, 25 days' holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure, and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.

We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.



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