Belfast Financial Planning & Analysis Manager 14m Fixed Term Contract BT1 3BT

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The Financial Planning and Analysis Manager leads complex planning and reporting activities across the Group or Business Unit, ensuring financial integrity, governance, and insight. The role supports strategic decision-making, drives performance improvement, and enables transformation through accurate forecasting, analysis, and stakeholder engagement. What you’ll be doing Lead the delivery of key financial planning processes, including monthly forecasts, outlooks and the Medium-Term Plan (MTP). Coordinate and manage the month-end process, ensuring timely and accurate reporting. Own the annual MTP cycle, engaging stakeholders across the business to deliver high-quality plans within agreed timelines. Develop and maintain commercial and strategic P&L forecasts, providing insight into financial performance and future opportunities. Prepare and present meaningful financial analysis and reporting packs for leadership teams and senior stakeholders. Manage forecast updates and ensure accurate population of financial planning tools, including Value Driver Tree (VDT). Provide financial analysis and decision support to Commercial and Operations teams, helping to drive performance and business growth. Lead and support finance improvement projects, identifying opportunities to simplify processes and enhance governance. Partner with Finance Leads, the UK Business Centre and GFSS teams to ensure alignment across planning and reporting activities. Deliver ongoing cost analysis and performance insight, identifying opportunities for efficiency and value creation. Essential Skills / Experience Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent). Strong financial modelling, spreadsheet and analytical skills, with the ability to translate data into meaningful insights and recommendations. Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build alignment and influence colleagues across multiple business functions. Desirable Skills / Experience Proven ability to take ownership, drive delivery and achieve results in a fast-paced environment. Creative thinker with a proactive approach to problem-solving and continuous improvement. Comfortable challenging the status quo and identifying opportunities to implement best practice. Able to communicate complex financial information in a clear, concise and impactful way. Strong relationship builder, influencer and communicator, with the confidence to engage stakeholders at all levels of the organisation. Commercially aware, with an understanding of how the role contributes to wider business objectives and strategic priorities. Our Package Tailored benefits make a real difference. That’s why we offer a comprehensive range to support your growth, wellbeing, and everyday life. You can design the package to suit you and your lifestyle. Your core benefits include: 10% on target annual bonus Access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family Market-leading paid carers leave with up to 2 weeks off Equalized maternity, paternity, and adoption leave – 18 weeks’ full pay and 8 weeks’ half pay Discounted EE and BT products, including mobile and broadband Market leading Pension scheme – 5% from you and 10% from us Holiday purchase scheme You can select additional benefits, including healthcare, dental, gym memberships and more when you’re ready. BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers. BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive. Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best. We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies. 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