Product Accounting Specialist

Job Description

Why this job matters

The Financial Planning and Analysis Manager leads complex planning and reporting activities across the Group or Business Unit, ensuring financial integrity, governance, and insight. The role supports strategic decision-making, drives performance improvement, and enables transformation through accurate forecasting, analysis, and stakeholder engagement.

What you’ll be doing

1. Delivers complex financial planning and analysis activities, including forecasting, budgeting, reporting, P and L, balance sheet, cash flow, cost management, and investment appraisal.
2. Builds a comprehensive understanding of monthly financial performance across the Group, translating insights into clear, actionable commentary for senior stakeholders including the Group CFO, Executive Committee and Board.
3. Leads the coordination and production of accurate and insightful Group and Network Services management reporting, ensuring timely delivery to inform strategic decisions.
4. Owns consolidation and reporting processes across key financial metrics (e.g. EBITDA, Capex, TLR), partnering with finance teams and offshore colleagues to ensure robust planning and controls.
5. Supports the transformation of reporting processes, championing the use of SAP and driving simplification and automation aligned to Group finance systems strategy.
6. Evaluates and challenges financial results and MTP submissions, identifying risks, opportunities and performance drivers across business units and cost centres.
7. Provides financial leadership on headcount and labour cost planning, ensuring clarity across traded, development and run resource, and supporting organisational efficiency.
8. Partners with Network Services and Business Ops teams to maintain effective controls and forecasts, linking business strategy to financial reporting, KPIs and goal setting.
9. Coaches and develops finance talent, supporting capability building and performance across UK and offshore teams.
10. Implements continuous improvement in financial processes and systems, resolving data issues, enhancing reporting accuracy, and sharing knowledge on emerging trends and practices.

The skills you’ll need

AuditingManagement ReportingAccounting PrinciplesFinancial AccountingFinancial Controls, Compliance & RiskStatutory & External Financial ReportingForecasting, Planning & BudgetingFinancial & Data Analysis & InsightRisk & AssuranceDecision MakingGrowth MindsetInclusive Leadership

Our leadership standards

Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.