Senior Manager, Financial Planning and Analytics

UPP are committed to creating exceptional places for students to live and learn. As the UK’s leading provider of on-campus accommodation and infrastructure, we make long-term investment decisions that have a lasting impact and rely on high-quality financial insight to support our continued growth.

We’re looking for a Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Analytics to manage and continuously develop UPP’s financial planning, performance reporting, financial modelling, finance systems and analytics capability across the Group. This is a fantastic opportunity to take ownership of a key finance function, ensuring the business has timely, accurate and forward-looking insight to support strategic decisions at Executive, Board and shareholder level.

Working closely with the Director of FP&A and CFO, you’ll lead the operational delivery of the Group’s annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting and Three-Year Planning processes. You’ll coordinate planning activity across Finance Business Partners, produce consolidated financial plans and forecasts, and support the development of an integrated planning framework aligned to UPP’s wider business strategy.

A key part of the role will be leading the FP&A month-end reporting process, ensuring management information is delivered accurately, consistently and on time. You’ll work closely with Financial Control and Finance Business Partnering teams to develop clear performance narratives, support Executive and Board reporting, and drive continuous improvement in reporting governance, quality and efficiency.

You’ll also play a central role in developing our finance systems, data and analytics capability, including the ongoing optimisation of Workday Adaptive Planning and Business Intelligence tools. This will include leading transformation initiatives focused on automation, simplification and improved decision support, as well as developing dashboards, KPI reporting and self-service analytics that help the business better understand performance, risks and opportunities.

The role will also oversee the development and governance of Group and SPV financial models, supporting strategic initiatives, investment decisions, valuation activity, liquidity forecasting and long-term planning. You’ll provide specialist financial modelling support across Finance and to senior stakeholders, helping to ensure our models remain robust, accurate and fit for purpose.

We’re looking for you to be a qualified finance professional with strong FP&A, commercial finance or corporate finance experience gained within a complex organisation, along with:

• Significant post-qualified experience in Financial Planning & Analysis, commercial finance or corporate finance.
• Experience leading budgeting, forecasting and long-term planning processes.
• Advanced financial modelling and analytical capability.
• Experience producing Executive and Board-level reporting, management information and financial insight.
• Strong knowledge of financial planning, performance reporting, finance systems and data governance.
• Experience driving finance systems improvements, reporting automation or transformation initiatives.
• Confidence working with complex financial and operational data to identify trends, risks and opportunities.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex financial information clearly.
• Experience using Business Intelligence and data visualisation tools such as Power BI, Tableau or Qlik.
• A recognised accounting qualification such as ACA, ACCA or CIMA. Experience working within REIT, SPV or infrastructure-based organisations would be an advantage but not essential.

You’ll be part of a collaborative and forward-thinking Finance team where your expertise will have a direct impact on the quality of financial planning, reporting, modelling and analytics across UPP.

We offer a competitive salary and great benefits package including discretionary performance bonus, 29 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, private healthcare, pension, enhanced family leave policy, life assurance two paid volunteering days and the opportunity to contribute to a business with a strong purpose, long-term vision and genuine commitment to continuous improvement.

This role will be based in our award winning London office with hybrid working, ideally located within easy reach of London Bridge, Cannon Street, Monument and Bank stations. Occasional travel and flexibility outside normal business hours may be required to support business needs.

UPP welcome all applications and recognise the value of having a diverse and inclusive culture, which reflects the communities we work with and has a positive impact on our people, our student residents and our university partners.

We understand all disabilities, impairments and conditions are unique, so please advise us of any adjustments which would support you through our recruitment process and also help you to thrive at work.

Our core values of Innovation, Sustainability, Community, Partnership and Respect are fundamental to our culture and summarise what is important to our business and our people.

If you’re an experienced FP&A professional looking for an opportunity to lead, influence and shape the future of financial planning and analytics at UPP, apply today and our in-house recruitment team will be in touch.