Lead, Financial Reporting, Planning and Analysis

Job description

Job title: Lead, Financial Reporting, Planning and Analysis Reports to: Executive Partner, Financial Operations Location: Belfast (Hybrid) This role aligns to industry level titles such as: Head of Financial Planning & Analysis / Senior Director, FP&A / Director of Financial Planning & Analysis Role Purpose: - The Lead, FP&A in PFS will lead the financial planning and analysis function across Pearson within a shared services environment. This role ensures strategic alignment between operational performance and financial objectives, driving insight-led decision-making and supporting Pearson’s global finance transformation agenda. - This FP&A role will lead the business unit facing FP&A teams, whilst working closely with the Global Lead Finance Operations to reimagine services as we evolve our Finance strategy towards greater Data Science, Advanced Analytics and Agent Ops AI-enabled ambitions. - This is a highly complex people management role and whilst delivering the FP&A agenda, a large amount of time and capacity within this role is spent delivering world-class people management. - Furthermore, given most of this team is in Belfast – this leader will also support the delivery of a...