Senior FP&A Analyst

Job Description

Purpose of the job

As a Senior FP&A Analyst, you will play a key role in supporting the Group FP&A team through the delivery of financial planning, monthly reporting, and ad hoc analysis. The role contributes to accurate forecasting, insightful performance analysis, and data-driven decision-making across the Group functions. This position requires strong analytical skills, financial modelling proficiency, and the ability to communicate effectively with key stakeholders.

Key responsibilities

Planning/Budgeting/Forecasting:

·      Support the delivery of annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and multi-year plans, for the assigned functions, including Group allocation calculations.

·      Own detailed cost and resource models, ensuring assumptions are robust, consistent and well understood.

·      Challenge inputs and assumptions during planning cycles, partnering closely with the Senior Finance Business Partner.

·      Support development of planning guidance, templates and standardised assumptions.

Performance Reporting & Insight:

·      Prepare timely and accurate monthly reporting with clear variance analysis and insight.

·      Analyse key performance drivers and translate financial outcomes into clear, decision-relevant insight.

·      Track delivery against budgets, savings initiatives and approved investment cases.

·      Support preparation of materials for senior management, governance and decision-making forums.

Decision Support & Analytical Insight:

·      Provide analytical support for transformation initiatives, cost optimisation and productivity improvements.

·      Support development and review of business cases, including scenario and sensitivity analysis.

·      Respond to ad hoc analysis requests from the Senior Finance Business Partner, Group FP&A leadership, and other key stakeholders.

Systems, Data & Continuous Improvement:

·      Drive improvements in FP&A processes, leveraging automation and modern planning and reporting tools.

·      Work with the Finance Analytics team to develop dashboards and visualisations to improve transparency and insight.

·      Champion data quality, consistency and standard definitions across supported functions.

·      Contribute to the ongoing evolution of a scalable, modern Group FP&A capability.

Qualifications & Experience

·      Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).

·      Typically 3–6 years’ experience in FP&A, commercial finance or analytical finance roles.

·      Strong experience in budgeting, forecasting and management reporting.

·      Exposure to modern FP&A and analytics tools (e.g. Anaplan, Adaptive, Oracle, OneStream, Power BI, Tableau).

Key Skills & Attributes

·      Strong analytical and financial modelling capability with high attention to detail.

·      Commercially curious and comfortable constructively challenging assumptions.

·      Able to communicate complex financial information clearly to non-finance stakeholders.

·      Well organised, resilient and able to manage multiple priorities.

·      Mindset aligned to continuous improvement and modern FP&A best practice.

Reward & Benefits: What's in it for me?

We want our people to feel recognised, supported and able to thrive both at work and beyond it.

We offer a competitive reward package designed to support your financial, physical and mental wellbeing, alongside opportunities to learn, develop and be recognised for the contribution you make. Benefits vary by role and location, and full details will be shared as part of the application process.

Equal opportunities: Our commitment to inclusion

Collinson Group is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and experiences, and believe that different perspectives make our business stronger.