Financial Planning & Analysis Manager Location: Swindon Salary: Competitive salary dependant on experience Why Join The Centre? By joining The Centre, you’ll become part of a team that values expertise, collaboration, and a client-first approach. They offer a supportive environment where you’ll have the opportunity to grow your skills and make a meaningful impact. The Role Financial Analysis: Provide valuable data insights and performance analysis to senior stakeholders across the business. Creating and maintaining dashboards and reports, including charts, tables and graphs to enable presentation of data in an effective format. Reviewing, analysing and interpreting month end financial reports, including P&L, Balance Sheet, Cashflow Statements, Overheads and Business performance. Identify value add areas and supporting the Head of UK & Ireland Finance with ad hoc projects and deep-dives. Create financial modelling templates for use across multiple countries. Process Improvement: Recommendations and implementation of process and reporting improvements through automation solutions and standardisation across the business. Provide guidance and training to Finance team and Central team on finance processes and automation skills, helping to embed a continuous improvement mindset. Involved in additional projects as they arise. Team Leadership and Stakeholder Management: Lead, manage and motivate the finance accounting team including regular 1:1’s, development of performance and fostering continual collaboration. Supporting the finance team through month end close, ensuring accuracy of results and helping with ad hoc queries. Collaborate with stakeholders across the business including Finance Business Partners, Head of UK & Ireland Finance, Group Financial Controller and Divisional Directors to identify opportunities to improve performance and drive growth and help with decision making, through data led analysis. Supporting Credit Control Manager with processes, reporting and reviewing performance of aged debt. Budgeting & Forecasting: Update and maintain budgets and forecasts, liaising with appropriate stakeholders across the business. Lead the review and creation of financial models to support robust forward-thinking analysis and decision making. Skills and Qualifications Qualified Accountant with a strong technical background and team management experience. Experience of embedding robust month end processes and controls and good knowledge of Systems. Excellent Excel and business intelligence skills such as Power Query, Power Automate (Power BI) and Power Apps and a Business Process Automation (BPA) Champion. Attention to detail, with an analytical mindset to organise and interpret data. Open, honest and progressive with excellent communication skills. Benefits Salary £60k to £65k (DoE) Hybrid working – 2 days working from home, 3 days in the office in Swindon 25 days holiday bank holidays (with Christmas Shutdown) Salary Sacrifice Pension Free parking on-site Cycle to work Scheme Annual party for you and your family To Apply If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for this reputable Centre, please do not hesitate to apply.