Financial Planning Analyst

Financial Planning Analyst | £50,000 - £53,000 | Permanent | Fully Remote
For the UKs largest not-for-profit social enterprise, we are recruiting two Financial Planning Analysts on a permanent basis – one focusing on long-term planning, the other on financial modelling. Both roles working closely with finance business partners and operations teams, and will develop, implement, and review commercial bids and acquisitions - providing insight to senior leaders on value drivers to inform decision making around bidding strategy and financial planning. The roles will suit someone keen to develop their career within long-term planning, modelling, commercial tendering, and bidding and will suit strong relationship builders from either the commercial or social enterprise sector.
Main Duties:
Deliver financial and commercial analytics, and modelling, focusing on new business development, bidding and tendering
Implement best practices in modelling and business development processes across the group
Utilise modelling standards such as FAST, F1F9, Mazard, Smart, ICAEW Modelling Code, Operis, or BPM.
Summarise and present complex opportunities and risks for senior management decision-making
Build and maintain strong relationships across finance, operations, and business development teams
Support wider team in annual budgeting and long-term forecasting
Support the Senior Financial Planning Analyst and business leaders in developing and implementing strategy
Person Specification:
Finance background or relevant degree, or FMVA, BIDA Financial Modeller / Data Analyst
Familiarity with modelling standards such as FAST, F1F9, Mazard, Smart, ICAEW Modelling Code, Operis, or BPM.
Experience or interest in working in commercial bids, deals, or transactions
Financial modelling and due diligence experience either at degree level or from within professional services
Ideally, experience with financial modelling of large-scale contracts, pricing schedules, and business cases
Ideally, experience of medium and long-term financial planning, costing and option / investment appraisals
FP&A, budgeting, and forecasting experience
Advanced Excel, ideally VBA