Senior Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Manager

Senior Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Manager

Location: Flexible / HybridSalary: Competitive + Benefits

At Barnardo's, we believe in transforming the lives of children and young people. As our Finance function continues to evolve, we are investing in strengthening our Financial Planning & Analysis capability and are seeking an outstanding Senior FP&A Manager to play a pivotal role in the next stage of our transformation.

This is an exciting opportunity for a commercially minded finance leader to deliver a high-performing FP&A function that provides robust planning, forecasting, analysis and performance reporting to support strategic decision-making across one of the UK's leading children's charities. The role will also play a key part in driving continuous improvement and supporting the development of future finance systems and processes.

About the Role

Reporting directly to the Finance Director, the Senior FP&A Manager will lead and coordinate all financial planning, forecasting, and reporting activities across the organisation. You will be responsible for ensuring budgets, forecasts and performance reporting are delivered to the highest standard, providing clear, actionable insight to support decision-making at Executive and Trustee level.

You will own the annual budgeting process, three-year financial planning cycle and monthly group performance reporting, while also leading the transformation and standardisation of FP&A processes, systems, and reporting. Acting as a centre of excellence for financial modelling and investment appraisal, you will support strategic projects and help build FP&A capability across the wider Finance team.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Planning & Forecasting

• Lead the end-to-end strategic planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes across the Charity.
• Coordinate and challenge inputs from Finance Business Partnering teams to ensure consistency, accuracy, and quality.
• Consolidate group-wide budgets, forecasts, and strategic plans.
• Produce the annual budget and three-year financial plan aligned with organisational objectives.
• Support the integration of strategic initiatives into financial plans.

Performance Analysis & Reporting

• Lead the production of the monthly Group Performance Pack, ensuring insightful, accurate and timely reporting.
• Provide meaningful analysis, commentary, and recommendations to support senior leadership decision-making.
• Deliver high-quality financial reports and presentations for the Executive Leadership Team and Trustees.
• Provide actionable insight on KPIs, financial performance, trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Develop dashboards and data visualisations that improve access to financial information and support informed decisions.

Strategic Support

• Partner with senior leaders on financial modelling for strategic projects and initiatives.
• Own and enhance the Charity's investment appraisal framework, ensuring robust evaluation of projects and business cases.
• Act as the organisation's centre of excellence for financial modelling, supporting scenario planning and strategic analysis.
• Coach and support Finance colleagues in developing modelling best practice.

Process Improvement & Systems

• Drive continuous improvement within FP&A, embedding automation, standardisation, and best practice.
• Support the transformation of FP&A systems and capabilities in partnership with Finance Systems and Digital, Data & Technology teams.
• Ensure strong data integrity, governance and reporting accuracy across all FP&A processes and outputs.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Build strong and trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, including Directors and the Executive Leadership Team.
• Present complex financial information clearly and confidently to both financial and non-financial audiences.
• Influence decision-making through high-quality analysis, insight and recommendations.

About You

We're looking for a highly capable finance professional who combines strong technical expertise with strategic thinking and exceptional stakeholder management skills.

You'll bring:

• Significant experience in FP&A, financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting within a complex organisation.
• Proven experience producing executive-level reporting and strategic financial analysis.
• Advanced financial modelling and investment appraisal expertise.
• A track record of driving process improvement, systems development, and finance transformation.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Experience leading, coaching, and developing finance professionals.
• A professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).

Why Join Barnardo's?

This is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of Finance at Barnardo's, ensuring that financial insight drives better decisions and ultimately supports our mission to make a lasting difference to the lives of children, young people, and families across the UK.

When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification and Job Description. This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.

Pre-employment checks will be required for the successful candidate.  

Apply today and help us build a stronger future for children and young people. 

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date.  We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values.  We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people. 

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay. 

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours.  More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application. 

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.

Barnardo's require colleagues to be UK residents, based in the UK and to complete their roles from within the UK (with the exception of colleagues providing Barnardo's services in Jersey and colleagues who live in the Republic of Ireland providing services in Northern Ireland)

• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

*T&C's apply based on contract

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

• Reference number:23460
• Job Title:Senior Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Manager
• Location:Workplace offer: Hybrid working, Barnardo's hub/office or home address
• Contract type:Permanent
• Hours:36.25
• Salary:£53,311 - £75,406 plus £312 per annum Office at Home Allowance
• Closing Date:6 August 2026
• Interview Date:To be confirmed