Financial Planning & Analysis Director

Description & Requirements

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Maximus is a global organisation that specialises in providing health and employment services to millions of people every year.

Here in the UK we employ around 5,000 people across the country to deliver services that have a profound impact on people's lives.

From assessments and health services to employability programmes and specialist support, we do work that matters with people who care.

Role Summary

To establish and lead all financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and financial performance analytics activities across the UK business, ensuring alignment between strategic goals, operational delivery and financial outcomes.

The role owns the design and implementation of robust FP&A processes, templates and tooling and acts as the financial pillar for enterprise level performance planning and transformation finance.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

1.

Lead the UK wide budgeting, forecasting and financial planning cycles, ensuring clarity of timelines, ownership, interdependencies and assumptions in alignment with the corporation in the US.

2.

Develop and own the UK FP&A reporting toolkit including templates, scenario modelling and standardised formats to drive consistency and transparency.

3.

Partner with Operational finance teams to translate business performance into actionable insights, ensuring that forecasts, variance analysis and KPIs reflect operational reality.

4.

Oversee the Central Services Business partnering activities, ensuring functional overheads (HR, Technology, Legal, Finance etc) are planned and managed effectively with clear accountability and challenge.

5.

Lead the Service Operations Finance capability, owning business case financials, cost-to-serve modelling and transformation cost tracking to inform investment and ROI decisions.

6.

Drive continuous improvement in finance processes, data flows and tooling, acting as the business lead for any future FP&A technology implementations.

7.

Design and implement fit-for-purpose financial structures (e.g.

cost centres, attributes, hierarchies) to support the capability based operating model, enabling tracking, planning and decision making through transformation.

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

Essential

• Qualified accountant (CIMA/ACA/ACCA) or equivalent with extensive post-qualification experience in FP&A or commercial finance leadership.

• Proven track record of leading enterprise level financial planning and forecasting processes in complex, matrixed organisations.

• Strong understanding of finance transformation, cost modelling and enabling technology.

Desirable

• Experience in public sector or outsourced services organisations.

• Prior involvement in FP&A system implementation or finance target operating model design.

Individual Competencies

• Strategic Thinking and planning

• Financial Acumen

• Leadership and team development

• Change Management

• Technology and Data O...