Financial Planning Analyst

Responsibilities

• Maintain and update the Group consolidation model monthly, reconciling actuals to forecast and flagging variances
• Provide forecasting, budgeting, and management-reporting support directly to subsidiaries without their own FP&A resource
• Prepare Board and management reporting packs to house standard, on a fixed monthly/quarterly cadence
• Support the annual budget process: templates, data collection from BUs, consolidation, and variance commentary
• Run variance analysis against budget and prior forecast, and draft the narrative behind the numbers
• Maintain KPI and unit-economics tracking across the entities in scope
• Respond to ad hoc analysis requests from the CFO, Head of Group FP&A, or subsidiary leadership

Requirements

• 4-6 years of experience in FP&A, financial analysis, or a similar corporate finance role
• Advanced Excel / financial modelling skills
• Experience working with multi-entity or multi-currency numbers
• Part-qualified or qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA / CPA) or equivalent analytical background
• Comfortable being the only FP&A point of contact for a subsidiary without close day-to-day supervision
• Ability to keep the model and the numbers clean, even when the underlying data isn't
• Ability to deliver reporting on a fixed cadence, on time, without chasing
• Experience in banking, fintech, or another regulated environment preferred
• Exposure to Board-level reporting preferred
• Comfort working directly with subsidiary or BU stakeholders without close day-to-day supervision preferred