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About the Role

This role sits at the centre of Europe FP&A, owning the delivery of planning and reporting outputs that underpin senior decision making. You will partner closely with the Finance Director for Continental Europe, ensuring the FP&A team delivers high-quality, insight-led management information, while strengthening the underlying data, systems, and reporting infrastructure. This is a hands-on, high-impact role combining advanced financial modelling, ExCo-level MI ownership, strong data and systems awareness, and advanced Power BI capability.

Responsibilities

Own delivery of the Europe plan and forecasts, including fiscal plan and quarterly outlooks.
Produce ExCo-grade management information, supporting executive materials and narrative.
Maintain oversight of the Europe P&L, tracking cost drivers, headcount, and allocations.
Build and own advanced financial models for forecasting, scenario analysis, and long-range planning.
Deliver insight at pace by identifying trends, risks, and opportunities.
Own Power BI reporting outputs, designing and maintaining scalable reporting solutions.
Work close to the data, interrogating data across systems and challenging outputs.
Improve planning and reporting processes to simplify workflows and increase reliability.
Raise quality across the team by reviewing analyst outputs and enforcing high standards.
Handle complex ad hoc requests, bringing structure and clarity to ambiguous questions.

Requirements

Strong FP&A experience across planning, forecasting, and reporting within financial services, asset management, or similarly complex environments.
Advanced financial modelling capability, with experience building and maintaining models for budgeting, forecasting, and scenario analysis.
Proven ability to produce clear, structured management information and presentations for senior stakeholders.
Advanced Power BI capability, including designing and maintaining semantic models, strong understanding of data modelling, relationships, and DAX, and experience building scalable reporting solutions.
Strong data mindset, with the ability to interrogate and validate data across multiple systems and sources.
Experience working with or navigating data warehouses or data lakes to support analysis and reporting.
Ability to generate clear insights at pace, focusing on key business drivers and decision relevance.
Strong attention to detail combined with sound commercial judgement.
Effective communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to present findings clearly and challenge constructively.
Experience supporting or reviewing the work of analysts and contributing to team delivery standards.
Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.
Professional qualification (ACA, ACCA, CFA, CIMA or similar) preferred.
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

Skills

Advanced financial modelling
ExCo-level MI ownership
Strong data and systems awareness
Advanced Power BI capability
Data modelling
DAX
Scalable reporting solutions
Data interrogation
Data validation
Data warehouses
Data lakes
Commercial judgement
Communication
Stakeholder management

Location

Hybrid

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior

Education Level

Undergraduate degree or equivalent
Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related discipline preferred
Professional qualification (ACA, ACCA, CFA, CIMA or similar) preferred

About the Company

Vanguard is a different kind of investment company, founded in the United States in 1975 on the principle that an investment company should manage its funds solely in the interests of its clients.
This philosophy has helped millions of people around the world to achieve their goals with low-cost, uncomplicated investments.
Vanguard, one of the world's leading investment management companies, serves individual investors, institutions, employer-sponsored retirement plans, and financial professionals.
We have a diverse and talented crew with a culture that promotes teamwork, along with an unwavering focus on serving our clients' best interests.

Equal Opportunity

Vanguard’s continued commitment to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture.
Every decision we make to best serve our clients, crew (internally employees are referred to as crew), and communities is guided by one simple statement: “Do the right thing.”
We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve.
We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguard’s core purpose through our values.
When all crew members feel valued and included, our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified, and we are united in delivering on Vanguard's core purpose: to take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.