Planning & Business Performance Lead (Finance)
Location: UK Remote, with attendance or travel as required by business needs
Eligibility requirement: Candidates must be UK nationals with a minimum of five years of unbroken residency.
Role Overview
Key Responsibilities
- Analyse and document current-state and future-state Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) processes.
- Develop process maps, standards, and supporting design documentation.
- Challenge existing ways of working constructively and identify opportunities to improve process efficiency and effectiveness.
- Work with client stakeholders to assess market-specific requirements and support the adoption of global standards.
- Collaborate with client teams to define best-practice approaches across planning, forecasting, performance management, and business partnering processes.
- Support transition and implementation teams through knowledge transfer and design guidance.
- Contribute to workshops, stakeholder discussions, and process design decisions within a complex transformation environment.
Required Skills and Experience
- Strong grounding in FP&A processes and finance operating models.
- Consulting skills, including process analysis, facilitation, documentation, and stakeholder management.
- Experience creating process maps and operating procedures.
- Ability to challenge existing processes constructively and identify improvement opportunities.
- Experience working in large, complex organisations and transformation programmes.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Desirable Experience
- Experience within the Consumer Goods industry would be beneficial but is not essential.