Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

About The Role

Would you like to bring your Financial, Planning and Analysis expertise to Alzheimer’s Society, managing and developing a team while helping shape how we forecast and measure financial performance?

Can you bring fresh ideas and experience to strengthen how we plan, forecast and understand our financial performance, helping us anticipate risks, identify opportunities and make the best possible use of our funds to support people affected by dementia?

We are recruiting for a Financial Planning and Analysis Manager on a full-time basis, working 35 hours per week on a permanent basis.

This is a vital role leading a team of four to ensure all FP&A activity is delivered seamlessly, while also looking ahead and bringing a continuous improvement mindset to drive how we can improve our processes, strengthen the way we work and contribute to the future of finance at Alzheimer’s society.

You will be responsible for ensuring our tools and processes remain consistent and ensure we provide an accurate picture of our finances.

As a qualified accountant, you will use your financial acumen to influence your team and colleagues across the organisation. You will build key relationships and act as a trusted strategic partner, sharing financial insight, finding solutions and supporting better decision making.

You will deputise for the Head of service, confidently representing the function in senior meetings, you are experienced in translating complex financial information into clear insight, options and recommendations.

This is a great opportunity to make your mark and share your vision on how the society measures financial performance. You will help strengthen the tools, processes and insight that enable us to understand our financial position, plan confidently for the future so we are equipped to maximise every pound raised and increase our support for people affected with dementia.

About you

• You will be a qualified accountant – ACCA, CIMA or CIPFA which is essential for this role with strong post qualification experience in a senior FP&A role.
• Demonstrable experience in financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, modelling and analysis in a large or complex organisation.
• Experienced in financial forecasting tools and modelling with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Strong relationship building skills across an organisation, comfortable representing the function at a senior level.
•  Experienced in translating complex financial information into clear insight for non-financial audiences.
• Proven experience leading and developing a team, using your coaching skills to support direct reports while managing performance, priorities and team outputs.

What you’ll focus on:

• Managing the Financial Planning & Analysis team, providing coaching and direction to ensure all activities are delivered in a timely manner and making sure work is delivered to a high standard.
• Coordinating the delivery of budgeting, forecasting, modelling reporting and analysis and making sure standards are applied consistently.
• Leading the implementation and ongoing improvement of financial tools.
• Building strong relationships with colleagues and teams, providing clear financial insight, practical support and constructive challenge in a supportive environment.
• Identifying and shaping improvements to our financial planning, forecasting, analysis and reporting.
• Ensuring all information and insight provides a clear and accurate picture of our financial performance.

Interviews for this role have been provisionally scheduled to take place via MS Teams on 8th & 9th September.

Please note that we’re recruiting directly for this role and are not looking for approaches from recruitment agencies at this time.

About Alzheimer’s Society

Dementia is the UK’s biggest killer. One in three people born in the UK today will develop dementia in their lifetime.

At Alzheimer’s Society, we’re the UK’s leading dementia charity and the only one to tackle all aspects of dementia by giving help and hope to people living with dementia today and in the future. We give vital support to people facing the most frightening times of their lives, while also funding groundbreaking research and campaigning to make dementia the priority it should be.

Together with our supporters, we’re working towards a world where dementia no longer devastates lives.

Our values make sure that our focus is clear for the challenges and opportunities ahead and remind us of what we all stand for.

Our commitment to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We need to ensure the voices around our table better reflect and understand the communities we exist to serve. We strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Alzheimer’s Society.

We want everyone we work with, as a colleague, volunteer, supporter, or someone we support, to feel included and that they belong at Alzheimer’s Society.

Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy here along with our internal employee forum and Employee Lived Experience network groups help us promote inclusion and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people.

Giving back to you

Our employees work hard every day to make a true difference in people’s lives. We are proud to support them with a range of benefits, recognition and many options for working agilely, all contributing to a strong work life balance. We also have various learning programmes to support you in your development and help you grow to realise your potential and shape a career with Alzheimer’s Society.

You can also visit our Working for Us pages, which give you more information about what it’s like to be an employee at the Society.