Hybrid Senior Financial Planning Manager

at The Very Group

• Job title: Senior Financial Planning Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Professional Certificate
• Tech skills: Oracle
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Liverpool, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Financial Planning Manager responsible for all Group Planning processes at The Very Group. Delivering insights for Exec and Board with a focus on accuracy and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of all Group Planning Processes
• Work with, and challenge, cross-functional teams to prepare and deliver analysis in support of Board decision-making.
• Ensure all Group planning and forecasting processes are clearly defined, communicated, and managed to deadlines. Ensure financial outputs are accurate, presented to the highest standard and aligned to Group governance and control frameworks
• Use experience and judgement to assess the strength and quality of the information provided to your team, directing focus to the matters that require most attention. You will be a trusted partner to the function.
• Drive an environment of continuous improvement with a view to identifying and delivering efficiencies in forecasting and ways of working across the function.
• Development of Planning tools
• Understand the potential for improvement of planning tools and propose solutions that fully utilise the existing planning tools (Hyperion and Excel).
• Work cross-functionally to develop a roadmap that sets out an ambition to migrate to an Oracle EPM solution

Requirements

• A qualified accountant, with more than 3 years post-qualified experience, and a proven track record of delivering change.
• Demonstrable organisational skills and experience in managing complex financial processes.
• FP&A experience.  Comfortable working with financial models.
• A driven and determined leader who possesses the social confidence and charisma to develop highly productive stakeholder relationships.
• A strong team player, with low ego, who can work cross-functionally.
• Commercially focussed, placing attention on accounting detail and end-to-end value.
• Proven successes of developing insightful reporting and analysis to use for major decision-making at Exec and Board level.
• Technical ability, strong aptitude for analytical work, preferably having experience with Hyperion/Oracle EPM products.
• Sound understanding of all primary financial statements.

Benefits

• Flexible, hybrid working model
• Inclusive culture and environment, check out our Glassdoor reviews
• £6,500 flexible benefits allowance to suit your needs
• 30 days holiday + bank holidays
• Udemy learning access
• Bonus potential (performance and business-related)
• Up to 25% discount on Very.co.uk
• Matched pension up to 6%
• More benefits can be found on our career site