Financial Planning and Analysis Manager - Reporting

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Our purpose is to empower people to save and invest with confidence. We are looking for great people to join us, so please come and invest in YOUR future at HL.

We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they don't tick every box. If you're excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for, please go ahead and apply. We'd love to hear from you!

About the role

Due to growth, Hargreaves Lansdown (HL) are now recruiting for a Financial Planning and Analysis Manager - Reporting to join the Commercial Finance team. As a Financial Planning and Analysis Manager you'll be responsible for owning the maintenance and development of executive level performance reporting, working with business SME's, the broader finance team, and our Data colleagues to ensure drivers of business performance are understood, key messages socialised with Accountable Executive (AE) and Finance leadership, and reporting delivers actionable 'so what' moments.

What you'll be doing

• Finance lead for Business Performance reporting, ensuring HL's most senior leadership have a contemporary view of business performance and its drivers, spanning flows, revenue, costs, through to dividends / EPS
• In-house the production of business-as-usual (BaU) financial reporting for provision to the Finance Business Partnering team. Ensure high quality, consistent outputs, striving for automation and minimal (but necessary) localisation to Line of Business (LOB) / Product / Channel / Function
• Support the quarterly, half-yearly and annual reporting outputs. Commercial Finance lead for the production of the analytical review, ensuring linkage between various different external disclosures, and a balance between a technical and commercial articulation of business performance
• Maintain an HL wide risk and opportunity view, working with finance business partners and plugged in to our planning process
• Undertake financial competitor analysis, developing a deep understanding our relative performance and its reasons. Work closely with the Planning team to ensure the salient elements of past performance, both internally and externally, are represented in financial plans and projections
• Partner with Finance Systems and technology colleagues to drive improved utilisation of finance systems. Drive greater automation, including but not limited to, reducing non-value-add activity, and frictionless provision of MI (in particular to senior leadership)

About you

• Experience from a professional consultancy background or significant commercial experience within a group function in a large complex organisation
• Qualified to 3-year PQE
• Audit background experience would be beneficial to your success in this role
• Demonstrable proficiency in financial modelling techniques. Adaptive Planning & BI experience desirable but not mandatory
• Strong analytical and data gathering skills
• Accomplished in forging effective relationships at all levels, skilled at influencing, negotiating and managing challenging conversations with ease
• Solution focused mindset - with the ability to assimilate complex information and develop innovative solutions and resolve complex issues promptly
• Ability to transition between the 'big picture' view & detail and synthesize financial & non-financial insights from across the organisation

Interview Process

The interview process for this role will be 2 stages including a task.

Working Schedule

This role is based in Bristol head office, BS1 5HL. This role is permanent, full time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. We have returned to the office, however for this role we offer a hybrid flexible working pattern to enable you the option of working from home and coming into the office.

Why us?

Here at HL, we're the UK's number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we've helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.

To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. We're steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.

What's on offer?

• Discretionary annual bonus* & annual pay review
• 25 days* holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure time
• Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday per year at annual enrolment
• Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
• Enhanced parental leave
• Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
• Sharesave scheme - have a real stake in HL's future
• Income Protection & Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
• Private medical insurance*
• Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and out patientcare
• Help@hand and an Employee Assistance Programme
• Gympass - gym memberships and wellbeing apps available
• Variety of travel to work schemes with free bike storage and shower facilities
• An inhouse barista serving subsidised coffee and snacks
• Join HL's sports, I&D networks and volunteering groups (two paid volunteering days per year)
• LifeWorks Discounts on services, restaurants and retailers

* dependant on role level

Hargreaves Lansdown is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis - please ask the Recruitment & Onboarding team for more information.

Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates.