Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

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Pitch Hill Partners

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London, United Kingdom

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Our client is one of the world’s fastest growing renewable energy companies at the forefront of the energy transition. A pioneer in advancing the clean energy sector and global leader in sustainability and climate action, promoting innovation in solar, wind, and energy storage.


As part of their UK and European strategic plan, the SVP Finance is building a best-in-class finance team to business partner and grow the business.


The Financial Planning and Analysis Manager is an important business facing hire providing support to the VP Finance & Reporting in all areas including financial operations, growth initiatives, commercial decision making and M&A.


Duties include:

  • Working closely with department heads to develop and maintain their annual budgets and preparing regular forecasts
  • Ensure reporting and data is timely, accurate and insightful for all relevant stakeholders and supports good decision making within the business.
  • Support the investment team preparing material such as modelling business cases/ IRR for each site (CapEx and OpEx) for Board and Investment Committees.
  • Provide input to develop long term financial modelling and integrate this into current performance analysis.
  • Monitor approved CapEx, DevEx and OpEx against approved plans for optimisation.
  • Assist in the preparation of management reporting (management accounts, budgets, forecasts, reforecasts, and board reports).
  • Ad-hoc reporting and analysis as needed.
  • Identify and understand business challenges, proposing and creating effective solutions, embracing use of latest technology
  • Support in managing liquidity, cash flow and the treasury function, working closely with the UK CFO.


Ideally you will be a qualified accountant (ACA/ACMA) with a strong technical grounding, in an accountancy practice and then at least four years of progressive commercial experience in businesses that are growing quickly or going through change. Embracing latest technology and automating regular processes will create time for the commercial team to focus on strategic input to the business.


You will have strong analytical and financial modelling skills and be able to quickly build strong relationships across the business in a positive and impactful way.

The role will be predominantly office based, with flexibility.