Finance Reporting and Planning Manager

The Finance Reporting & Planning Manager helps people with sight loss to live the life they choose by leading a highly-efficient planning and reporting service that provides a holistic view of the financial and operational performance of the Association to the Executive and senior leadership, enabling them to make short- and long-term decisions which ensure best use of the organisation’s funds.

For this role you will be based at our Hillfields site in Reading and expected to attend site 2/3 days per week.

We offer a generous pension scheme, annual leave, life assurance and enhanced pay for parenting and sickness leave. In addition, we provide an Employee Assistance Programme, flexible benefits package and discounts and cashback scheme to care for our people. 

More details can be found in the attached candidate pack and job description.

Candidate requirements

To be able to fulfil this role, the skills and experience we are looking for in a potential candidate include;

Essential

• Finance – ACCA/ACA/CIMA qualified.
• To be able to confidently deal with complex financial and technical disclosure standards.
• Demonstrable experience of producing management reports including clear and insightful analysis in medium to large size organisations with automated processes, thereby helping the organisation to make commercially sound decisions
• Experience of preparing budgets and forecasts, including short to medium term (1-5 years) financial modelling 
• Demonstrated experience of activity-based costing and modelling and return on investment / productivity analysis, including the link between financial and non-financial indicators
• Demonstrated the ability to build and establish a credible business partnership with all areas of the organisation.
• Demonstrated experience of driving change to generate efficiency or other benefits
• People management experience
• Sound knowledge of accounting standards and practices 
• Understanding of financial return measurement techniques (Key performance indicators including ROI, NPV, IRR) 
• Understanding of the functionality and dimensionality of computer-based accounting systems and how to use it for analysis and insight
• Interpersonal skills 
 Ability to build highly effective and collaborative working relationships with all levels of the organisation.  
 Ability to communicate complex technical issues in a simple way to meet the needs of a diverse audience.  
 Strong influencing skills including the confidence to constructively challenge senior stakeholders
 Negotiation and conflict resolution. 
 Logical and organised approach.

• Technical Skills 
 Ability to think strategically and understand the broader organisational issues.  
 Strong problem solver, using a variety of analytical and influencing techniques to formulate a proposed way forward. 
 Strong modelling and analysis skills, including the use of Excel logical, modelling and text functions
 Understanding methods of presenting information, including dashboards


• Management skills
 Ability to work with a relatively low level of supervision, prioritise and communicate the impact of conflicting demands to ensure deadlines are met.

 

 

Guide Dogs welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively encourages diversity to maximise achievements, creativity and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability or nationality. 

 

 

If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK via our digital ID checking supplier; in addition, we cannot offer visa sponsorship at this time.

 

Every day is different at Guide Dogs. And no person with sight loss is the same. We work side by side, on our sites and in the community, in schools and on our streets, supporting people to live the life they choose. Our staff therefore also work in different ways to support the delivery of our life changing work.

Guide Dogs is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk of harm with whom we work. We expect all our employees and volunteers to fully share this commitment.

At Guide Dogs, we believe in fair and equitable hiring practices. A criminal record will not automatically disqualify an applicant from consideration for a position. Each case will be evaluated individually, taking into account the nature of the offense, its relevance to the role, and the time that has passed since the incident. We encourage all candidates to disclose relevant information, and we assure you that it will be handled confidentially and fairly.

 

Guide Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully covering the past 5 years. If you are applying for a disclosure role, please note that you will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check and sign up to the DBS update service.

 

You may have particular needs to be able to complete your application, If you would like support please contact our Recruitment Team on 0118 3540345 or [email protected]

 

As part of your application ensure you provide evidence and examples of how your skills & experience meet the criteria as set out in the attached job description.