Financial Planning Analyst
Role Overview
Supports the Senior FP&A Manager with integrated planning, performance monitoring, and analysis across the business.
Consolidates financial information, maintains review calendars, and produces reconciliations, performance bridges, and analytical tools.
Uses Excel, Power BI, Power Query, and Microsoft Copilot to automate reporting and generate insights for commercial partners.
Key Skills for This Role
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Opportunity
A confidential client is seeking an FP&A Analyst to support financial planning and business performance across multiple business units.
The role
Supports the Senior FP&A Manager with integrated planning, performance monitoring, and analysis across the business.
Consolidates financial information, maintains review calendars, and produces reconciliations, performance bridges, and analytical tools.
Uses Excel, Power BI, Power Query, and Microsoft Copilot to automate reporting and generate insights for commercial partners.
Responsibilities
- Consolidate actuals, forecasts, and budgets; prepare consolidated P&L, KPI dashboards, and variance analysis.
- Prepare Budget-to-Actual, Forecast-to-Actual, year-over-year, and Volume-Price-Mix performance bridges; identify drivers, risks, and opportunities.
- Harmonize metrics and reporting logic and support the actuals and forecast calendar, submissions, meetings, deadlines, and group reporting cycles.
- Build reusable reconciliation templates, performance bridges, Excel and Power BI models, and analytical tools for commercial partners.
- Support annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, long-range plans, scenario analysis, and sensitivity modeling; maintain templates and assumption trackers.
- Prepare planning decks and management summaries; automate dashboards and streamline reporting and data preparation with AI tools.
- Respond to ad hoc analysis requests, maintain data integrity, improve FP&A processes, and support relevant audits.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Data Analytics, or a related quantitative discipline.
- 3–5 years of relevant experience in FP&A, financial analysis, management reporting, commercial finance, or business performance analytics.
- Advanced Excel, including Power Query, Power Pivot, and complex financial modeling.
- Strong analytical ability to translate large datasets into structured insights.
- Solid understanding of financial statements, management reporting principles, and KPI frameworks.
Preferred qualifications
- Progress toward CPA, ACCA, CIMA, CFA, or equivalent qualification is an advantage.
- Data analytics, Power BI, financial modeling, or AI tools certifications are a strong plus.
- Multi-business-unit financial consolidation experience is strongly preferred.
- Reporting automation, dashboard development, or AI productivity tools exposure is a strong plus.
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