Interim Director of Financial Planning and Analysis - #188289

Finance 791 Glasgow Contract Competitive base salary plus excellent company benefits

Why choose us?

Choosing to work for SMS means choosing to make a difference. We are changing how businesses and consumers use energy for the better, helping achieve a greener, sustainable, and more affordable energy system for everyone. Through our range of innovative energy solutions, we are delivering the future of smart energy – working closely with private and public sector partners we are playing a critical role in transforming and decarbonising the UK economy by 2050.

What's in it for you?

• 25 personal holiday days per year (with additional 8 public holidays) increasing to 30 personal days after 5 years of service (includes options to buy and sell)

• Hybrid working options.

• Automatic enrolment into the Employee Participation Plan.

• Enhanced Maternity leave. Paternity and Adoption leave.

• 24/7 free and confidential employee assistance service.

• Medicash health plan offers a wide variety of benefits from cashback on everyday healthcare treatments like optical, dental and physio treatments. Discounted gym memberships and free 24/7 online GP.

• Life Insurance (4 x annual salary)

• Pension matching scheme (up to 5% of salary)

• Developing our people is important to us - we support and encourage development by offering internal and external accredited courses, secondments and study support.

What's the role?

Reporting directly to the CFO, as Director of Financial Planning and Analysis, you will be expected to develop and lead the FP&A practices across the Group, along with the management of the Group Payroll team. In doing so, you will closely collaborate and business partner with stakeholders from across the Group.

You will directly influence budgeting, planning and strategy processes. You must be intellectually curious, detail-oriented, and be able to identify solutions to complex problems, then roll-up your sleeves to drive implementation.

You will have ownership of all forecasting and budgeting, including timetable management, presenting to executive management, preparing supporting Board papers, and collaborating with executive management to ensure appropriate targets across the business and set and monitored.

You will review and prepare ad-hoc financial and non-financial analysis to evaluate the quantitative and qualitative aspects of investment opportunities or business cases. You will work in collaboration with the wider finance team to ensure messaging and reporting is consistent across the Group.

You will also support any M&A, any other strategic opportunities, and the development of business cases.

This role is offered on a 9-12 months Fixed-Ter Contract. The working hours are contracted at 40 hours per week, 8:30am to 5:00pm, Monday to Friday.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee with ultimate ownership of the yearly budgeting processes covering timing, communications, and reporting.
• Setting and managing the timetables for the production of budgets and regular reforecasts for the Group, ensuring consistency of approach and alignment with strategic planning processes
• Driving accountability through functional budgets and targets, providing support to divisional teams to ensure changes to budget are appropriately reflected in reforecasts and ensuring effective communication to executive management.
• Responsible for the reforecasting of the business as required by the business
• Analysis of both financial and non-financial information, identifying patterns, trends and opportunities for business growth or cost reduction.
• Develop plans for financial growth and overall responsibility for the Group’s long term Corporate Model
• Provide business partnering support to the Executive and senior leadership teams whilst establishing strong and effective relationships across all levels in the business.
• Review and manage the Groups cash and cash forecasts and assist with developing strategies for mitigating potential liquidity risks
• Controlling cash including weekly and monthly cash flow/forecast reporting on variances and providing suggestions for ways of improvements and always providing tight control of cash
• Implementation and support to other departments for financial modelling providing financial analysis and guidance on activities, plans, targets, and business drivers.
• Developing relationships around the business to further develop the role and the profile of the finance department
• Lead and provide ad hoc analysis and support to finance projects, as and when required
• Assess the financial risk of any and all business operations, investments, and innovations
• Lead change and innovation that promotes continuous improvement throughout the finance teams.
• Manage the Group Payroll teams.
• Any other duties as required.

To be considered for this role, we would love you to have/be:

• CA / ACA / ACCA/ CIMA qualified; significant post qualified experience (or equivalent).
• Significant post qualified experience in a Senior Finance post for a large, multi-site organisation.
• Experience and proven track record in a listed business.
• Strong financial modelling skills including advance Excel and knowledge of financial reporting systems (preferably D365).
• Strong accounting skills and a good understanding of finance function in a group setting. Ideally with plc experience.
• Excellent communication skills and confident at getting out into the business to articulate financial matters to a non-financial audience.
• Ability to drive results, having a track record of high performance and examples of delivering improvements to the top and bottom line.
• Self-motivated, must be able to organise and execute work independently and with minimal supervision.
• Able to operate in quickly changing environments whilst being well organised, pro-active and deadline driven.
• Highly developed analytical skills, able to provide insightful, accurate analysis of complex financial data.
• Strong presentation skills, able to use PowerPoint or similar products to develop high quality reports appropriate to a range of audiences.
• Experience of problem solving and implementing process improvements, particularly in relation to internal reporting (e.g. efficient design of Excel reports).

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