Job Description

Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Location: EMEA, United Kingdom, Slough

Ref: JOHNCRANEEMEA02171

Division: John Crane

Job Function: Finance



Are you prepared to leverage your financial expertise to drive impactful outcomes in a diverse business landscape? At John Crane, we\'re searching for an accomplished Global Financial Planning and Analysis Manager to contribute valuable insights and enhance financial performance.

As a pivotal contributor, you will play a crucial role in enhancing decision-making processes, offering insightful analysis, and providing valuable perspectives on business performance. Your expertise will shape the financial trajectory of one of the world\'s leading engineering enterprises.

You will possess the ability to unlock the potential of financial data and contribute to refining our financial strategies. Your mission is straightforward: empower our leaders to make informed decisions that optimize operational efficiency, ultimately elevating John Crane\'s standing as an industry frontrunner.

Enter a space where financial acumen meets with business progress. With our expansive global presence, your insights will resonate across the business, influencing enterprise performance worldwide. Your financial proficiency will be at the core of our operations, contributing to a legacy of success.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Monitor performance, providing insightful analysis and review of divisional and functional performance & KPI reporting.
• Assist with the annual budget and forecasting process which will include consolidation, review and analysis of global business unit and group performance, and the preparation of detailed reports and bridges.
• Developing and enhancing management reporting to provide the John Crane divisional Board and other key stakeholders with information to aid decision support.
• Development of KPIs and data-based measurement tools to track divisional continuous improvement initiatives and efficiency benefits.
• Assists with key divisional projects and ad hoc information requests as directed by the Director of Financial Planning & Analysis
• Working closely with the Finance Information Systems team to ensure that the group-wide reporting/consolidation application is fit for purpose and meets John Crane Group requirements.

Diversity & Inclusion

We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.

The Individual

• Educated to degree level & Professional accounting qualification.
• A minimum 5+ years of relevant professional experience focusing on finance, financial statement and project analysis, and consolidated management reporting preferably in a large, international multi-currency business.
• Leadership experience whether directly or indirectly.
• Proven ability to develop structured and fact-based analytics that include actionable conclusions and recommendations; taking into account the needs and impacts on business stakeholders.

• Work closely with other areas of the business to develop a clear understanding of the implications their decisions have both in the short and long-term.
• Curious self-starter with flexibility and willingness to balance multiple, changing priorities and work under tight deadlines.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and build strong trusted working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Effective written, verbal and presentation skills with the ability to communicate and present to executive level management.
• Advanced MS Excel skills required, experience of IBM Cognos an advantage.

About Smiths

At Smiths we apply leading-edge technology to design, manufacture and deliver market-leading innovative solutions that meet our customers\' evolving needs, and touch the lives of millions of people every day. We are a FTSE100, global business of around 14,600 colleagues, based in 50+ countries. Our solutions have a real impact on lives across the planet, enabling industry, improving healthcare, enhancing security, advancing connectivity and supporting new homes. Our products and services are often critical to our customer s\' operations, while our proprietary technology and high service levels help create competitive advantage. We welcome colleagues with a curious mind, who are happy with responsibility, enjoy a challenge and are attracted by the idea of working at a business with a 170+ year history of innovation, and five global divisions, all experts in their field.

About John Crane

John Crane (www.johncrane.com) is a global leader in rotating equipment solutions, supplying engineered technologies and services to process industries. The company designs and manufactures a variety of products including mechanical seals and systems, couplings, bearings, filtration systems and predictive digital monitoring technologies. John Crane customer service is accessed through a global network of more than 200 sales and service facilities in over 50 countries. Fiscal year 2016 revenue was greater than 1 Billion USD (\xc2\xa3830m). John Crane is part of Smiths Group (www.smiths.com), a global leader in applying advanced technologies for markets in threat and contraband detection, energy, medical devices, communications, and engineered components.

Smiths Group