Financial Planning Manager

Salary: £42,000 – £48,000 per year

Travelodge has an exciting opportunity for a Financial Planning Manager to join the team based in Thame, Oxfordshire. You will work on a full time basis as part of a 12 month fixed term contract which is salaried rather than paid as a day rate.

We’ve been here for our customers for over 30 years. With Travelodge locations right across the UK, we continue to provide modern, clean, comfortable rooms in the right place at the right price, whatever our customers’ reason for travelling.

Behind the scenes of this big UK-wide company, you’ll find a close-knit team. Our people are passionate about understanding what our customers need and making sure we get every detail right for their stay.

We’re proud to have a diverse team and we want everyone to be able to bring their unique personality to work. Every day is different here – and every person is too.

The Financial Planning Manager role:

This is a fixed term role for 12 months to support the Director of FP&A, Head of Financial Planning & Investments and Planning Manager to improve existing planning process to become class leading. 

The role will work alongside the Financial Planning Manager and in addition to the transformation element of the role is jointly responsible for managing to production of high quality financial plans, budgets and forecasts.

What you will be doing as our Financial Planning Manager?

– Supporting the preparation of forecasts and business plans through working with multiple departments and stakeholders including scenario planning, what-if analysis and preparation of high quality presentations

‘Super User’ of the financial planning system (Anaplan) with responsibility in providing training and advice to other users

– Lead in the continued development and improvement of planning drivers through working with operational finance and wider finance teams

– Development of integrated, flexible and robust sensitivity models

– Ownership and continued development of the company cash flow model for use as part of forecast and planning cycles, including review cash movements, assumptions and alignment with trading plans and changes to customer and supplier payment profiles.

– Preparation of weekly cash flow report for review for distribution to Board Members and Owners.

– Undertake appropriate analysis to inform the preparation of cash forecasts

– Ad-hoc analysis as required

Skills, Knowledge and Qualifications you’ll need as our Financial Planning Manager?

– Qualified accountant from a CIMA/ACCA/ACA study route with 1-3 years PQE

– Pro-active self-starter

– Able to use own initiative and confident to challenge and present own point of view concisely and effectively

– Be able to express and resolve queries in a concise and timely manner

– Able to work independently and meeting tight business deadlines

– Confident, articulate individual comfortable dealing with both financial and non-financial stakeholders at all levels of the company

– Ability to work with complex data, presenting it in a user-friendly format and able to make concise and insightful observations about it

– Ability to work independently in a fast paced environment and be able to keep a calm head and manage time with changing priorities is crucial

– Ability to use own initiative and confident to challenge and present own point of view concisely and effectively.

– Effective team manager with responsibility for the supervision, assistance and development of the reporting analysts

– High level of competence in Microsoft Excel is essential with an ability to analyse large volumes of data

Desirable:

– Financial planning skills

– Prior treasury / cash forecasting experience

If you feel you could be our next Financial Planning Manager then please click ‘apply’ now! We’d love to hear from you!