Job Overview

Job Title: Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Contract: Permanent 

Salary: £85,000 (per annum)

Location: London - Hybrid

Application Closing Date: Wednesday 23rd July 2025

We’re looking for a strategic and forward-thinking finance professional to step into a newly created Financial Planning & Analysis Manager role within BMJ’s central Finance Team. This is a unique opportunity to shape and lead BMJ’s financial planning cycles, owning the budgeting process, rolling forecasts, and high-impact financial reporting that supports decision-making at the highest levels.

In this pivotal role, you’ll build and refine a best-in-class framework that not only drives core financial processes but also delivers insightful commercial narratives across the organisation. You’ll use both traditional reporting and modern visualisation and analytics tools to bring data to life, helping teams across BMJ better understand performance, trends, and opportunities.

Working closely with senior leaders and cross-functional teams, you’ll integrate financial, market, and product insights to support BMJ’s strategic direction. With the trust and visibility that comes with this position, you'll also have the opportunity to deputise for the Finance Director on key matters related to forecasting and financial strategy.

If you’re passionate about turning numbers into meaningful insight, confident in leading complex planning processes, and ready to influence at a senior level, this role is for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a high-impact budgeting process that’s transparent, collaborative, and clearly understood across the business, delivering timely, well-structured plans that not only meet stakeholder needs but tell a compelling financial story at GLT and Board level.

• Drive meaningful insight through consistent, high-quality reporting, giving business leaders a clear view of portfolio performance and actionable intelligence to optimise outcomes and uncover new opportunities.

• Design and embed a best-practice financial reporting framework, covering systems, tools, templates, and guidance to ensure every finance output is polished, professional, insightful, and aligned with business needs.

• Foster a collaborative, insight-driven reporting culture, working across data teams, finance business partners, and leadership to deliver an evolving suite of high-value, forward-looking reports.

• Champion alignment across finance functions, ensuring seamless collaboration between business partnering and management accounting teams to enhance influence, build trust, and drive impactful financial decisions.

• Turn insight into action, using analysis and forecasting to recommend business improvements, crystallise cost efficiencies, and shape stronger commercial strategies

Skills, Experience & Qualifications

• Qualified accountant, ACA, ACCA or CIMA

• 4+ years post qualified accountancy experience within an FP&A team

• Proven track record of delivering financial planning and analysis processes to time and expectation

• The ability to communicate complex ideas in a simple, impactful way

• Proven ability to act autonomously where appropriate

• Strong influencing skills to align best practice across teams

• Excellent, polished communicator to members of staff at all levels

• Excellent Excel skills

Why work for us

Help us create a healthier world. We are a global healthcare knowledge provider. We publish The BMJ, one of the world’s most impactful medical journals and over 70 influential speciality journals. We offer digital tools to help health professionals worldwide tackle critical healthcare challenges. Find out more about us here.

Flexible Work and Workplace Perks

• We’re committed to flexible working that supports both your needs and the requirements of the role.

• Discounted onsite gym and fitness classes 

Generous benefits

• Generous double-matching employer pension contribution, up to 12%

• Discounted dental and travel insurance

• Seven x salary life assurance cover and a generous income protection package

• Discounted gym membership, cycle-to-work and season ticket loan

• Discounts for retail and leisure products through yourReward 

Work-life balance and wellbeing

• Twenty-five days holiday + bank holidays + a BMJ Day off.

• Additional holiday through long service; buy up to 5 additional days 

• Leave for moving house, volunteering or getting married

• Concierge service Seniorcare by Lottie

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

• Equity, Diversity and Inclusion are not buzzwords to us, but fundamental company priorities

• We believe that a diverse workforce brings unique strengths and insights, enabling us to better serve our customers and drive positive change in our industry. 

• If you are from an under-represented or historically marginalised community, we are particularly interested in hearing from you. 

• Join our employee-led networks focusing on Gender, Race and Cultural Diversity, Sexual Orientation, Mental Health and Well-being, Parents and Carers and Age.

• Disability Confident Committed employer

Learning & Development

• Personal development plan 

• Mentoring scheme

• Career Coaching

• Opportunities to pursue professional development

• Strengths-based development