Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

HCRG Care Group is looking for a motivated and experienced Financial Planning & Analysis Manager to join our fast-paced finance team! This role is key to growing our FP&A function, and you'll be deeply involved in shaping our financial strategy. As the Financial Planning & Analysis Manager, you'll lead and manage complex financial models for scenario analysis and strategic planning, implementing technology solutions to streamline reporting and enhance efficiency. Staying current on industry trends and best practices, you'll support accurate forecasts and budgets and handle ad hoc analysis as needed. You'll also take ownership of Jet Report templates and documents used by our finance team, continuously identifying opportunities for process improvements, cost reductions, and efficiency gains. If you're ready to make a significant impact in a collaborative environment, we'd love to have you on board! This is a full-time, fixed-term position until July 2025, offering a hybrid work model with a requirement to visit our Runcorn office weekly.Main Responsibility Your main responsibilities will include:

• Own and coordinate the budget and forecast processes, providing clear timelines, templates, and guidance to the Commercial Finance Team.
• Consolidate budgets and forecasts, including presentations and system uploads.
• Produce detailed financial reports and presentations for executive leadership, including Finance Reference Packs with draft commentary.
• Collaborate with various stakeholders to ensure accurate and timely reporting.
• Coordinate the month-end process.
• Complete group consolidations for covenant reporting, NHS reporting, and scenario planning.
• Develop monthly payroll reports and quarterly forecast files.
• Build and manage complex financial models for scenario analysis and strategic planning.
• Stay current on industry trends and best practices in financial planning and analysis.
• Own and manage Jet Report templates and documents used by finance colleagues.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements, cost reductions, and efficiency gains within the Finance function.
  
  Minimum of 5 years' experience in financial planning and analysis, with at least 2 years in a management role.
• Driving license with access to a vehicle.
• Proven track record of success in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, with a strong ability to create complex financial models, perform data analysis, and automate tasks.
• Strong communication skills and attention to detail.
• Minimum of 3 years Post-Qualification Experience (PQE).
Desirable:
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics/Jet Reporting.
• Proficiency in Macros.
• Track record of working with consolidations, balance sheets, and cash flows.
  
  We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.


• £65,000 with group pension (Fixed-Term until July 2025)
• Private medical insurance with fast access to the most used specialists including for musculoskeletal problems and for mental health support - at locations across the country
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location in Runcorn
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission