Senior Analyst Financial Planning & Analysis

Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Support the annual budget cycle end-to-end (templates, timelines, BU engagement, review, challenge, consolidation, and commentary).
• Partner with assigned Business Units to challenge assumptions, improve cost visibility, and strengthen forecasting discipline and accountability.
• Review and approval of PR and POs for assigned business partnering units in line with delegated processes.
• Prepare rolling forecasts and periodic reforecasts by incorporating performance trends, business inputs, and key drivers.
• Prepare management performance insights (dashboards/scorecards/pack commentary) highlighting KPIs, drivers, risks, and opportunities
• Draft concise performance commentary (MTD/YTD/QTD) translating financial results into ‘what happened / why / so what / actions’ for senior stakeholders.
• Calculate unit economics and evaluate volumes, margins, and cost-to-serve to clarify operational factors driving financial results for stakeholders.
• Perform variance and root-cause analysis (Actual vs Budget/Forecast), translating movements into clear drivers and recommended actions.
• Support monitoring of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and link outcomes to financial impact.
• Preparation of executive presentation packs (e.g., ARC and Board), including executive summaries, performance storytelling, and clear written commentary on key drivers, variances, risks, and outlook.
• Support coordination of inputs across entities/functions for consolidated governance packs (e.g., ensure subsidiary slides and commentary are complete, consistent, and aligned with Group performance narrative).
• Preparation of financial models for scenario planning, sensitivities, investment evaluations, and operational initiatives.
• Support business cases (CAPEX/OPEX), including benefits tracking, affordability analysis, and post‑implementation performance monitoring where required.
• Identify opportunities to simplify and automate FP&A outputs (standardised templates, controlled driver files, dashboards), reducing manual effort and improving turnaround time.
• Ensure FP&A outputs meet internal quality standards (accuracy checks, reconciliations, commentary completeness) and support management decision-making.
• Provide ad-hoc financial analysis and decision support for management requests and strategic initiatives where it's required to collect, validate, and analyse financial and operational data (ensuring data quality and consistency).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or related.
• FP&A / financial modelling certification (FMVA/AFM) is an advantage.
• 4–6 years in FP&A (budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, performance insights), ideally in utilities/infrastructure/large asset environments.
• Advanced Excel (Power Query/Pivots), strong financial modelling and scenario/sensitivity analysis.
• Experience with ERP systems (SAP preferred) and comfort working with large datasets; exposure to dashboards/BI is a plus.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management (ability to explain drivers, challenge assumptions constructively).

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