Senior Finance Planning & Strategy Manager – Commercial Training
Preferred locations: London, Bristol, Sheffield or Birmingham
 

Our offer to you
We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. You will receive:

• Competitive salary and pension scheme
• 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) - increasing to 38 days over 5 years
• Hybrid, Flexible working
• Cycle to work scheme Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Health and Wellbeing portal – access to financial, health and wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounts – you will have access to Blue Light and NHS Discounts as well as discounts on mobile phones, gym membership, cinema tickets, restaurants, holidays and shopping.
   

About Us
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,416 employees and over 31,000 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning.  As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future. 
St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services (e.g. Ambulance response and Nighttime Economy) and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them (e.g. our Volunteers and Community Advocates, NHS Cadets and Young Responders programmes). 
There is also a buoyant social enterprise network which delivers first aid training and supplies medical consumables to businesses and consumers.

Job Summary
This role leads the teams who deliver the Business Partnering, Planning, forecasting, analytics and financial reporting for the businesses across Enterprise (Training, Supplies, Trade Marketing). The role is a key leadership position within the Finance team for driving commercial analysis and insights to support and direct strategic decision making, track and govern spend and lead the revenue forecasting to forward-plan resources. Responsible for supporting the management accounting and business partnering to Enterprise including budgeting and interim forecasts, ensuring they are aligned to strategic operational plans. Working in partnership with the Commercial Director & Heads of across Enterprise, the role governs the pricing and discounting to deliver margin, providing insight and analysis to the teams and tracking progress. Overseeing the training elements of the Property portfolio and scheduling of the courses, to optimise occupancy & capacity and make cost efficiencies to maximise revenue and contribution.

About You

You will be Educated to degree level, hold a professional Accounting Qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA), A minimum of 5 years PQE experience and experience in commercial finance roles, Experience in pricing and analysing bids and contracts, margin management, Significant experience in managing the day-to-day, monthly and forecasting management accounting processes, Experience in leading a team to deliver a best-in-class business partnering service across an organisation, Experience in dealing with a stakeholders at all levels, Experience in identifying, controlling and managing risk, cost savings and efficiencies.

About the Role

• Provide a best-in-class finance business partnering service to Enterprise and key stakeholders around St John regarding commercial activities
• Provide strong support to the Head of Financial Planning & Analysis through the delivery of high-quality business and financial analysis, with detailed outcomes and benefits, to support consistent and effective delivery of services or identify and present coherent rationales for change
• Provide financial acumen, support and challenge to St John’s income generation teams, including pricing and financial analysis of new and existing contracts and development of process efficiencies and definition of solutions for operational effectiveness including participation in tenders and bid proposals as required
• Work with the relevant stakeholders to provide accurate and on time monthly management accounts, forecasts and annual budgets.
• Provide leadership support and line management to the Finance and Planning, Performance & Commercial Analytics team
• Accountable for the commercial planning in terms of commercial training schedule to meet profitability and budget requirements, and strategy plans for the network.

Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply)

Find out more about us, including our new Ask Me campaign, at www.sja.org.uk 

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CV’s are being reviewed on an ongoing basis so if interested, please complete an application as soon as possible

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

St John Ambulance are committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.   At St John, everyone is valued and supported to thrive, we have several networks including Multi Culture, Disability and Accessibility, Pride, Family and Carers and Women’s groups.  We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and engender a sense of belonging for all, by creating an environment of mutual respect, where we value unique differences and demonstrate authentic allyship. We believe passionately in equality, diversity and inclusion.   

'St John Ambulance is committed to safeguarding and we promote safe recruitment practice. Therefore, all successful applicants will undergo pre-employment checks, including DBS Clearance, as part of the onboarding process, if applicable to the nature of the role'.

Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy.