Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

As a member of the Finance and Commercial Directorates leadership team, you will be a senior leader within the Financial Planning & Analysis team.You will take a lead role of development of the financial models that underpin our long term financial planning. This includes the development and pricing of our fees and spending review bids using our funding model, which uses activity based costing methodology.You will be instrumental in the development and maintenance of a long term financial model, working with colleagues across government to ensure the sustainable funding of Companies House with potential to include other agencies.You will provide full affordability analysis, including scenario and "what if" modelling for organisation wide business cases, ensuring compliance with green book best practice and compliance with managing public money.Working with a range of experts within our teams, you will develop dynamic integrated financial models that highlight the costs of our services, provide variance and trend analysis to identify hidden cost drivers and opportunities for efficiency gains.As the Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Manager, youll provide should cost models for delivery model assessments, ensuring public value in our largest and most complex procurements.You'll deputise for the Head of Financial Planning and Analysis as and when required.About the team:The Financial Planning & Analysis team is an essential part of the finance directorate and play an important role in supporting and enabling the ambitious transformation plans of Companies House.There is a strong culture within the strategic finance teams to provide training, mentoring and opportunities to develop, ensuring we support you to maximise your development and to reach your full potential.Use of modelling tools such as Alteryx and Power BI has seen the team win public sector and national finance awards for advancement in automation, analytics and reporting, which has created time for the team to focus on adding organisational value.The team have won Public Sector Team 2023 and Rising Star of the Year 2023 at Finance Awards Wales. The team support and assist each other and have developed a great team ethos, valuing their colleagues, celebrating success and the embracing the mixture of strengths and differences they possess.The Financial Planning & Analysis team at Companies House are valued contributors within the organisation and regularly are seen as being vital for the success of our large and complex project delivery.The FP&A function is a real asset and will be integral to understanding the VfM of our major projects over the next few years Head of Economics, Companies HouseThe FP&A team has developed a model which breaks down how individual elements within the organisation contribute to its overall costs, which has enabled a wide range of scenarios to be modelled from various angles Senior Finance Business Partner, The Department of Business and Trade