Role: Finance Business Planning Manager
Location: Coventry (office-based at least 3 days per week)Pay Rate: £690–£780 per day (inside IR35)Duration: up to 6 months initially
Morson are recruiting for a Finance Business Planning Manager to join the Financial Performance team of a leading regulated organisation.
This is a key role connecting financial, operational and regulatory planning across short, medium and long-term planning cycles. You will provide analysis and insight to support AMP8 delivery, identify risks and opportunities, and help shape the organisation’s longer-term strategy and PR29/AMP9 plans.
Working closely with Finance, Operations, Asset Planning, Strategy and Regulation, you will provide clear financial and regulatory insight to support investment decisions, efficiency improvements and long-term value.
Key Accountabilities of the Finance Business Planning Manager
- Lead the integration of financial, operational and regulatory plans across annual budgeting, forecasting and longer-term business planning.
- Assess actual and forecast performance against the AMP8 business plan, identifying risks, opportunities and dependencies.
- Develop financial and regulatory scenarios to support strategic decisions, investment prioritisation and uncertainty management.
- Coordinate key planning assumptions and modelling inputs across Finance, Operations, Asset Planning, Strategy and Regulation.
- Support the development of the PR29 business plan and AMP9 strategy, including financial modelling, benchmarking and evidence development.
- Assess affordability, finance ability and deliverability of proposed plans and investments.
- Provide clear, evidence-based recommendations and constructive challenge to senior stakeholders.
- Support regulatory submissions, enhancement cases and strategic investment decisions.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and performance, ensuring benefits are measurable and reflected in plans and forecasts.
- Maintain strong governance, controls, assumptions and audit trails across business planning models.
- Provide analysis to support monthly performance reporting and other key business decisions.
- Build effective relationships across Finance, Operations, Strategy, Regulation and Asset Planning.
Essential Experience
- Proven experience leading or coordinating complex business planning within a large or regulated organisation.
- Strong understanding of the water-sector regulatory environment, including price review delivery and regulatory periods.
- Experience of integrated financial, operational and regulatory planning.
- Strong financial modelling, scenario analysis and analytical skills.
- Ability to work with complex data and maintain robust assumptions, controls and data quality.
- Experience supporting strategic decision-making through clear analysis and recommendations.
- Strong commercial judgement, balancing financial, operational, customer and regulatory considerations.
- Experience working within structured planning, governance and assurance processes.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and build relationships across different functions.
- Confident challenging assumptions and providing constructive challenge.
- Relevant accounting, finance, economics or analytical qualification is desirable.
Key Skills
- Business planning
- Financial modelling
- Scenario analysis
- Regulatory planning
- AMP8 / PR29 / AMP9
- Financial performance
- Strategic analysis
- Commercial judgement
- Stakeholder management
- Governance and assurance
- Data analysis
- Senior-level influencing
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Business Planning Manager or senior finance/planning professional to take a strategic role within a major regulated organisation, with significant exposure to senior leadership and the development of future business and regulatory plans.
*Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an initial telephone interview. If selected from the shortlist, a formal interview process will then begin.
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