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About the Role

As Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Manager, you will play a key role in strengthening The Crown Estate’s financial planning, reporting and performance management activities. Supporting the Senior FP&A Manager, you will help deliver high-quality budgets, forecasts and long-term plans that enable informed decision-making and support the organisation’s strategic objectives. Acting as a central point of coordination across finance teams, you will translate complex financial information into clear, actionable insights for senior leaders and Board stakeholders. You will also drive continuous improvement in planning processes and support effective capital allocation through robust financial analysis and modelling.

Responsibilities

Own and act as the super user of the FP&A Anaplan model, ensuring data integrity and effective use across planning and reporting cycles.
Coordinate the consolidation of monthly forecasts, annual budgets and long-term plans, providing clear visibility of key assumptions and performance drivers.
Produce high-quality financial reporting and performance packs for senior leadership and Board audiences.
Deliver detailed variance analysis, identifying trends, risks, opportunities and performance drivers across the business.
Provide forward-looking insight through scenario planning, forecasting and risk assessment.
Build strong partnerships with Commercial SBU and Group Partners Finance teams, constructively challenging assumptions and improving forecast quality.
Support capital allocation decisions by connecting financial plans with value creation, return on investment and strategic priorities.
Drive enhancements to planning, reporting and performance management processes.

Requirements

Professional finance qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) or relevant experience.
Strong experience in financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning within a complex organisation.
Strong understanding of FP&A best practice, performance management and financial reporting.
Proven ability to analyse financial data, identify key drivers and communicate insights effectively to senior stakeholders.
Experience working with planning systems; Anaplan experience is highly desirable.
Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills, with experience managing large datasets.
Strong stakeholder management skills and confidence influencing and constructively challenging colleagues at all levels.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex information into clear business insight.
Highly organised, detail-oriented and committed to continuous improvement.

Skills

Anaplan
Advanced Excel
Financial modelling
Stakeholder management
Communication

Education Level

Professional finance qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)

Benefits

Competitive salary
Pension
Performance related bonus
Flexible working
Market leading family policies
Shopping discounts in the West End
Private healthcare
Life and critical illness cover
28 days holiday with the option to buy more

About the Company

The Crown Estate is a purpose-led organisation where financial insight directly supports long-term value creation for the UK.

Equal Opportunity

We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.
If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us directly, or at careers@thecrownestate.co.uk