FP&A Manager: up to £70,000. Permanent, SE London

For a large University, we’re recruiting a permanent FP&A Manager to lead a high performing team responsible for budgeting and forecasting processes and analysis across the University supporting key stakeholder groups. Accountable for group-wide budgets, forecasts, monthly processes and decision-making frameworks, this role will be a business process owner for Oracle EPM. This role will suit someone with a strong business partnering mindset representing excellent service delivery and someone who is forward-looking and proactively provides decision support, and critique to support financial decisions.

Main Duties:

• Own the budgeting and forecasting process, working with the Finance Business Partnering teams
• Coordinate Faculty and Directorate management information to prepare and present executive reports
• Business owner of the EPM system, overseeing ongoing development and training
• Analysis of performance and efficiency improvements
• Commercial and financial modelling, costing, and pricing, due diligence, and resource allocation reporting
• Development of a University-wide analysis on cost saving and revenue optimisation
• Lead a high performing team including the mentoring, development, and empowerment of individuals
• Work collaboratively with Senior Finance Business Partners and senior leadership team to enhance the Oracle EPM capability
• Support the CFO finance transformation programme

Person Specification:

• ACCA, ACA, or CIMA qualified with strong management accounting and FP&A experience, ideally from the Higher Education or Commercial sector.
• Experience of leading Finance teams and providing leadership to senior management teams
• Experience in building and maintaining financial models
• Oracle EPM Cloud experience
• Track record of developing and coaching staff to reach their potential