Head of Financial Planning

**Vacancy Title**:Head of Financial Planning & Business Partnering**
**Vacancy Location**:Dunmurry, Belfast, Northern Ireland**
**Engagement Type**:* Permanent, Full Time (Hybrid)*
**Your Company**
Survitec are the world’s largest survival technology provider. For over 166 years, we have been protecting lives in the air, on land and at sea, through the design, manufacture, and servicing of Survival Technology.
Today, we are a global community of 3,000 professionals with presence in 96 countries partnering with our customers to provide innovative solutions that reduce risk and help keep you safe.
That's why the world's leading maritime, defence & government, energy and aerospace organisations trust us when it matters most and why we have been awarded the Silver Award by the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme
**Finance**
This family develops, refines and implements the financial policies, plans, measures and controls to safeguard and accurately report on the financial results of the business

**Job Summary**
This role works within the Group Finance team. It owns and delivers all group financial planning and analysis, drives continuous improvement initiatives and ensure effective governance and best practice methodology for the group and field discipline of FP&A. The role ensures insight into overhead, capex and cash flow performance to all relevant cost centre / budget owners; and provides the framework for analytics and reporting support for all external reporting, including for the Ad Hoc Group, the Lender and the bank
**Duties and responsibilities**
- Develops and delivers the finance plans to support a variety of business investigations, models, proposals and decisions that require sound economic research, ensuring that group and field team FP&A activity is aligned with overall strategy, framework and working practices.
- Defines the FP&A toolkit for deployment within group and field financial planning and analytics activity
- Builds and validates complex business cases in connection with enterprise-wide business transformation, ensuring a sound basis for quantifying costs, justifying potential investment and quantifying benefit, in support of Survitec’s growth strategy
- Contributes to the development of Group and Head Office / Marine divisional performance dashboards, monitors key performance indicators, highlights trends and variances, recommending actions to improve
- Conducts complex research using primary data sources, selecting the most appropriate and sound information sources, identifying and accommodating any key themes and trends
- Prepares and coordinates the completion of various standard and a hoc data and analytics reports.
- Prepares and presents finding for global and executive board presentations
- Contributes to the development and delivery of financial policies, guidelines and protocols to ensure the company complies with financial regulations and good practice
- Resolves queries from internal or external customers or suppliers by providing information on complex processes and related policies, referring to others where necessary for interpretation of policy.

**Skills**
- Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems
- Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
- Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments
- Applies knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance Survitec’s goals
- Interprets and applies key financial indicators to make better business decisions
- Learns through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning opportunities
- Steps up to address difficult issues, saying what needs to be said
- Knows the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement

**Values**

Drives safety culture
- Is a reliable source of reference on relevant safety standards and where these standards are at risk. Provides important insight into the root cause and corrective actions for such safety risks and issues. Raises issues and highlights own mistakes without fear to improve safety and wellbeing of self and others
- Demonstrates commitment to delivering real value and confidence to our customers
- Understands the importance of being the representative of both internal and external customers. Demonstrates respect for those customers and is open and transparent about the delivery of service - only promises what they can deliver and delivers what they promise
- We care for our people, investing in the development of teams and individuals
- Understands own role within the team and takes accountability for delivery - is good at closing out actions and proactively asks for help when issues arise. Communicates appropriately, shares knowledge (coaching, mentoring and supporting others to develop skills as appropriate). Works collaboratively with own team and others to meet business go