Head of Performance and Planning

A large financial services group

Description

As Head of Group Planning you will be responsible for;

• Building and running the planning program, including the definition of the target operating model, the coordination of the different stakeholders and the progress update to senior management.
• Providing robust review of Business Unit, with respect to P&L and Balance sheet consequences, highlighting key risks to other areas of the planning framework, ensuring consistency of impact
• Preparing MI in a succinct, clear but comprehensive manner distilling key messages to senior management
• Destining actions to address shortfalls to target and articulate key challenges in order for businesses to address and optimise the plan
• Reviewing and understanding actual outcomes to ensure deviations from plan are understood and trends and associated impacts are known in advance of future planning cycles
• Ensuring regulatory returns and requests for information are met in a controlled and timely manner
• Managing a small team of senior VPs

Profile

As Head of Group Planning the ideal candidate will be;

• Qualified accountant or MBA, or equivalent
• Experience in financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and performance management and improvement
• Strong business/financial management and analysis skills
• Demonstration of delivery of quality outputs to tight time frames
• Ability to distil key messages to senior management and ability to present those to large audiences

Job Offer

As Head of Group planning you will be joining a large financial services group, this role will offer you excellent career progression and exposure to senior management.