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Job Overview
The Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Manager will be a key role in delivering the forecasting and budgeting processes across the Engineering Services Division, together with the provision of insights and associated commentary to the Divisional Leadership team. The Engineering Services Division is the largest division in Mitie plc, expected to generate £1bn in revenues in FY19-20 (around 50% of the Group's revenue).
The key objective is to ensure all available financial and operational data is used to optimise decision making. The role reports into the Head of FP&A (ES) and will work closely with the Finance Leadership team and the Group Financial Planning & Analysis team.
Main Duties
* Directly support the Head of FP&A to deliver forecasts and the budget to the Divisional Leadership team and Group Finance. This includes working closely with the divisions to deliver detailed analysis and commentary explaining the overall Divisional performance.
* Lead the preparation of the monthly management pack and other monthly information, including variance analysis and commentaries.
* Support the improvement of the Divisional planning process to ensure that required deadlines, formats and quality of analysis are universally understood and adhered to.
* Develop mastery of the reporting suite (Cognos TM1, Hyperion) to ensure the Divisional & Group reporting requirements are met with high quality first-time right data.
* Generate insights and innovative views of data and taking a leading role in the continued development of Operational & Financial KPI reporting.
* Facilitate the financial planning processes - 5 year strategic plan, annual budgets and quarterly re-forecasts.
* Support the commercial understanding of ES through developing robust scenario analysis to identify the potential impact on profitability, working capital, balance sheet and cash flow.
* Acting as a leader across the finance community to deliver high quality analysis, commentaries & insights.
* Preparation of presentations to be used at Divisional Leadership team meetings.
* Ad-hoc projects and analysis as required.
What we are looking for
Knowledge & experience
* Professional Accountancy Qualification (ACA/CIMA/ACCA/or equivalent).
* 2+ years experience of FP&A divisional consolidation reporting in a large company (£500m+ turnover plc or equivalent) environment is required.
* Demonstrable experience of operating in a turnaround environment is essential.
* Experience of Facilities Management consolidated FP&A reporting is required.
* Extensive system knowledge (Hyperion, TM1 and SAP), with the ability to extract data into high-quality board level material.
* Proven ability to generate improvements to FP&A processes and ensuring a fit-for-purpose efficient & top-quality delivery.
* Proven ability to understand complex financial data and present data & analysis in a clear and concise format.
* Highly numerate, with strong data management & integrity capability and a pro-active, independent and structured way of working.
* Comfortable to work in a dynamic environment and thrives in uncertain/ambiguous situations.
* Confident communicator who is able to reach out to relevant personnel across the business in finding answers/influencing outcome.
Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Accounting/Auditing, Analyst, and Consulting
Industries
Facilities Services
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