E&E FP&A CoE Insights Manager

Role Overview

This role leads the Centre of Excellence (CoE) for English & Exams, taking ownership of financial data quality, standardised processes, and strong governance across the business. You will guide a team of insights analysts, drive data integrity and process optimisation, and ensure that planning, forecasting, reporting, and decision-making rest on reliable, reconciled financial information. By connecting financial data inputs with business-facing outputs, you enable effective performance management and operational excellence across multiple markets and regions.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the subject matter expert for English & Exams financial data, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and reconciliation across SAP, Anaplan, reporting templates, and regional records.
• Monitor key financial datasets, investigate variances and trends, and produce clear narratives that support planning, forecasting, reporting, and informed decision-making.
• Maintain audit-ready documentation and collaborate with Business Partners to align financial data inputs with business-facing outputs.
• Lead the standardisation of financial processes, reporting, and automation initiatives to improve efficiency, consistency, and internal controls.
• Deliver accurate, timely, and reconciled financial information, summaries, and trend analyses that underpin performance reviews and business decisions.
• Work with stakeholders to resolve data discrepancies, enhance reporting quality, and maintain consistent data definitions for comparability across regions and markets.
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team, setting clear objectives, managing performance, and allocating workloads across multiple country demands and stakeholder requirements.
• Support BDS compliance, audits, and assurance activities while strengthening data governance, documentation standards, master data structures, and reporting frameworks.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Essential: Significant experience in financial data analysis, FP&A, management accounting, or a similar field.
• Essential: Proven experience leading data quality and reconciliation processes.
• Essential: Hands-on experience with Anaplan or a comparable EPM platform.
• Essential: Experience working with multiple stakeholders in a matrix or multi-country organisational context.
• Essential: Demonstrated ability to work with complex financial datasets across multiple markets or business units.
• Essential: Strong capability in financial modelling, forecasting, and analytics.
• Essential: Ability to simplify complexity for senior executives.
• Essential: Strong data literacy, including Power BI, dashboarding, and data modelling, along with good business storytelling with data.
• Desirable: Track record of delivering accurate financial reporting and analysis to tight deadlines.
• Desirable: Experience with SAP or similar ERP platforms.
• Desirable: Experience delivering financial training or capacity-building.
• Skills: Advanced data quality and reconciliation skills, with the ability to identify inconsistencies and guide corrective action.
• Skills: Analysis and variance report preparation, interpreting data patterns and providing succinct preliminary insights.
• Skills: Team leadership, with the ability to coach, develop, and manage a small team.
• Skills: EPM systems proficiency, including strong working knowledge of Anaplan and experience with SAP and associated reporting tools.
• Skills: Accuracy and attention to detail, ensuring high-integrity financial data across markets and regions.
• Skills: Communication skills, explaining financial data clearly to both finance and non-finance audiences.
• Language: Written and verbal proficiency in English is required, as the organisation's systems and global processes operate in English.