Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

At Third Space, FP&A is a strategic partner to the business. This role plays a crucial role in shaping strategy, uncovering opportunities, and driving performance across the organisation. If you are passionate about problem-solving, delivering actionable insights, and collaborating with teams to drive meaningful change, this is your chance to make a real impact.

This is an integral role within our finance team reporting into the Head of FP&A, working closely with senior leadership and with oversight over the full business.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the budgeting and forecasting processes, partnering with functional heads to develop, review and analyse budgets and forecasts
• Support delivery of long-range planning
• Build a deep understanding of the business, key drivers and financial model
• Proactively provide analysis and insights to support performance management, highlighting and managing risks and opportunities
• Act as a strategic finance partner to senior leadership – delivering actionable insights to support decision-making, drive financial performance and enhance member experience
• Prepare business cases to support investments and business initiatives, including ROI analysis, sensitivity analysis and post-investment appraisals
• Manage long-term cash flow forecasting to support financial planning and resource allocation
• Aid in the implementation and enhancement of financial systems, ensuring data integrity and automation
• Develop and mentor the FP&A Analyst, helping to enhance capability within the team

What You’ll Bring

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
• Proven experience in FP&A roles, ideally in a multi-site business
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills
• Highly analytical and detail-oriented, with a commercial mindset and strong business acumen
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills—comfortable collaborating across all levels of the organisation
• Data-Driven & Action-Oriented

Timeframes and process

As standard with roles at Third Space, there will be three key stages during this process:

1. Telephone interview with Talent Acquisition (This stage will be held in the first 2 weeks of January)
2. First face-to-face interview focusing on your technical expertise (Preparation time will be required for this)
3. Final face-to-face interview focusing on softer skills and behaviours (This stage won’t require prep time)

Please note, we will not be reviewing applications for this role until w/c 29th December.