Financial Planning Analyst - Inside IR35

One of our large Retail Customers who has recently gone through significant change is re-building their business to make it fit for the future & they are currently recruiting to help make this happen - with a fresh focus, a clear vision and some incredible transformation in-flight, there's never been a better time to join them!

To help set them on the right path, we're looking for a Financial Planning Analyst to support performance reporting and planning across the team. In this role, you'll be consolidating and building reporting outputs and partnering with finance business partners and business teams to identify any risks or opportunities that might have a financial impact, and add those into our forecasts, budgets, and strategic plans.

As a Financial Planning Analyst, you'll play a key part in the team that's responsible for analysing performance and trends, and producing forecasts, budgets, and plans for the future. We'll look to you to deliver reporting against internal benchmarks and then compare with external competitors in the industry so that we can inform and optimise our business decisions. If you can bring us the financial and analytical skills that we need, we can offer you the chance to build your career with a business that always puts people at the heart of its strategy.

What you'll do

• Build financial plans using proven techniques and methods
• Input data and assumptions / driver updates into the financial models, forecasts, budgets, and strategic plans
• Consolidate reporting inputs and tell the story of the overall performance in a compelling way
• Support the weekly and monthly performance reporting
• Consolidate the period results, understanding key variances and the impact it has on overall financial statements
• Provide reconciliation and variance analysis across the different business areas on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis
• Communicating and building relationships with key partners across the business
• Work to improve out internal forecasting and reporting processes
• Champion our planning and reporting tools
• Own and develop the cashflow forecasting (short term and longer term)

This role would suit people who have

• An accountancy qualification (ACA, CIMA, ACCA) or equivalent experience
• Previous experience working in an FP&A (financial planning and analysis) team
• Experience working with budgets and forecasts (P&Ls, balance sheets, cash flow etc.)
• Strong IT skills, with confidence in spreadsheet / model consolidation (VLOOKUP's and advanced formulas)
• Experience of planning tools
• The ability to prioritise the right tasks in a complex, changing environment
• Great accuracy with work, analytical skills and attention to detail
• The ability to produce strong presentations and tell a story through data
• Excellent communication skills, with the confidence to present to financial and non-financial partners, challenging and influencing where necessary
• The ability to spot new opportunities and drive continuous improvement

The role is based either remotely with occasional travel to client meetings in Manchester or can be fully remote.

This vacancy is being advertised by Rullion Ltd acting as an employment business

Since 1978, Rullion has been securing exceptional candidates for a range of clients; from large well-known brands, to SMEs and start-ups. As a family-owned business, Rullion's approach is credible and honest, focused on building long-lasting relationships with both clients and candidates.

Rullion is a forward-thinking recruitment company that specialises in providing a wide range of talent consultancy services to a diverse client base; from small start-ups to large household names.

We celebrate and support diversity and are committed to ensuring equal opportunities for both employees and applicants.

Rullion celebrates and supports diversity and is committed to ensuring equal opportunities for both employees and applicants.