Senior Financial Planning Analyst

This role sits at the heart of the OneGP transformation agenda. The Senior FP&A Analyst will act as a strategic finance partner to operational and commercial leadership, translating financial data into actionable insight that accelerates growth, margin expansion, and enterprise alignment. 

This is not a back-office reporting role. It is a forward looking, influence led position for a high performing analyst who wants to shape decisions, challenge assumptions, and directly impact business outcomes across a global services organization. 

Key Accountabilities 

Commercial Performance & Growth Enablement 

• Partner with business leaders to drive profitable growth, focusing on revenue quality, cost leverage, and operating margin improvement 

• Lead financial analysis that informs pricing strategy, investment decisions, capacity planning, and service-line performance 

• Identify performance risks and opportunities early, converting insight into clear, decision-ready recommendations 

Planning, Forecasting & Enterprise Alignment 

• Own the annual budget, rolling forecast, and long range planning cycles, ensuring alignment to OneGP priorities 

• Move the organization from backward-looking variance reporting to predictive, driver-based forecasting 

• Build scalable financial models that support scenario planning, growth initiatives, and transformation programs 

Insight, Reporting & Executive Storytelling 

• Deliver concise, high impact financial narratives for senior leadership, connecting financial outcomes to operational drivers 

• Lead variance analysis with a root cause and action oriented mindset, not just explanation 

• Develop and enhance dashboards and reporting using Excel and Power BI to enable self serve insight 

Financial Governance & Data Integrity 

• Ensure accuracy and integrity across income statements, balance sheet reconciliations, and key control processes 

• Partner with controllership on close cycles, audit support, and data governance, without being anchored in pure accounting activity 

Stakeholder Influence & OneGP Ways of Working 

• Operate as a trusted advisor across finance, operations, and leadership 

• Influence without authority, challenging legacy thinking and embedding a OneGP, enterprise-first mindset 

• Contribute to continuous improvement of FP&A processes, tools, and standards globally 

What Success Looks Like 

• Leadership teams use your insight to make faster, better commercial decisions 

• Forecast accuracy improves and surprises reduce 

• Growth initiatives are supported by robust financial logic and scenario modelling 

• Finance is seen as a value creator, not a reporting function 

Candidate Profile 

Experience & Capability 

• Degree qualified in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related discipline 

• 5+ years' experience in FP&A, commercial finance, or business partnering roles, ideally within services, consulting, or matrixed global environments 

• Demonstrated track record of influencing outcomes through insight, not hierarchy 

Technical Strength 

• Advanced Excel capability (modelling, scenario analysis, automation mindset) 

• Strong Power BI or equivalent data visualization experience 

• ERP exposure required; Oracle Cloud ERP experience advantageous 

Mindset & Behaviours 

• Commercially sharp, intellectually curious, and outcomes-focused 

• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and fast changing environments 

• Confident communicator with the ability to simplify complexity for senior stakeholders 

• Self-starter with the resilience and drive to operate at pace 

Why Join 

This role offers visibility, stretch, and real impact. You will be part of a finance function evolving into a strategic growth engine, with exposure to senior leadership and enterprise-wide initiatives under the OneGP model.

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