Financial Planning and Analysis MI & Reporting Manager

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Job Description

Base salary: £54500 pa to c.£68150 pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

As a MI and Reporting Manager supports the Head of Financial Planning and Analysis in leading an insightful reporting and analysis function that services the rest of finance. By overseeing the MI and Reporting team, the MI and Reporting Manager ensures that both key capacity and service levels are appropriate and have embedded agility so that reporting requirements meet the needs of HS2 stakeholders.

About the role:

• Building and maintaining strong relationships with Heads of Finance and their FBP teams based on trust
• Enabling robust decision making through analysis, insight and reporting, including financial transactions, such as accruals, journals, reconciliations
• Generating standard financial reporting to ensure consistent, accurate, timely data and one version of the truth, to include month-end reporting (Monthly Business Review packs, WD5 pack, JV YoY analysis, reconciliations between oracle and prism, accruals reporting, cash flow reporting, workforce planning, interface of data between Firrin and Oracle)
• Building an in-depth understanding of the business and cost drivers
• Providing analytical support to FBPs to facilitate Directorate performance evaluation
• Supporting Business Finance in developing a financial strategy to enable successful achievement of objectives
• Supporting Finance Partnering through the forecasting and planning cycle to obtain funding for business delivery priorities, optimising the allocation of funding to create value
• Building relationships with other areas of HS2, such as HR MI team, Business Managers
• Provide specialist finance advice for complex financial issues or involve relevant specialists, such as Financial Accounting team
• Understanding and presenting information to develop financial insight, control costs and develop risk management strategies
• Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI

About you:

Skills:

• Communication skills: Ability to interpret and communicate complex financial issues to non-financial colleagues.
• Technical accounting skills (current IFRS and FReM understanding) including knowledge of Government accounting requirements (DEL/AME funding) to ensure compliance of business plans with delegated authority;
• Ability to interpret complex financial data and use it to support decisions and recommendations within the business
• Ability to analyse and interpret complex financial information throughout the programme lifecycle and to see HS2 from multiple dimensions
• Ability to use ERP systems, utilising data analytics software and complex Excel models
• Ability to develop and set clear timetables, guidance, templates and communications for use by the business that capture all relevant supporting information behind plans and forecasts;
• Ability to deliver value adding MI and ensuring effective financial controls within a major project
• Stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage, communicate and develop consensus with both internal and external stakeholders up to Executive level.
• Technical accounting skills (current IFRS and FReM understanding) including knowledge of Government accounting requirements (DEL/AME funding) to ensure compliance of business plans with delegated authority;
• Ability to prioritise, making insightful recommendations on the options for allocation of scarce resources.
• Ability to manage teams and resolve issues to agreed deadlines
• Ability to critically review and challenge performance, assessing plans for their affordability, value for money, timing and impact on programme delivery;

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of how to interpret and communicate complex financial issues to non-financial colleagues and to secure compliance with Managing Public Money;
• Knowledge of accounting systems and the ability to develop and manage off-system analyses and records (e.g. spreadsheets)
• Knowledge of how to develop output driven, activity based budgets, clearly aligned to programme delivery requirements, making clear and reasoned recommendations to the Executive.

Type of experience:

• Experience driving output focussed, activity based budgets and forecasts;
• Leading the process for development of the annual business plan and budget setting processes within funding caps set by the Spending Review.
• Experience engaging and collaborating with key stakeholders and partner functions (such as planning, procurement, contract management and HR teams) to ensure a holistic view taken to the required capabilities and resources needed to effectively deliver plans;
• Qualified Accountant with experience of operating at a senior level in a complex environment which may include infrastructure projects

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect

It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.

Watch this video on how we remove bias in the recruitment process: Removing bias in the recruitment process (youtube.com)

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

About Us

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK's new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain's major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others' health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our 'Safe at Heart' programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.