Advert Close date: 13th August 2026

Purpose of Role

As Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Manager, you will play a key role in strengthening The Crown Estate’s financial planning, reporting and performance management activities. Supporting the Senior FP&A Manager, you will help deliver high-quality budgets, forecasts and long-term plans that enable informed decision-making and support the organisation’s strategic objectives.

Acting as a central point of coordination across finance teams, you will translate complex financial information into clear, actionable insights for senior leaders and Board stakeholders. You will also drive continuous improvement in planning processes and support effective capital allocation through robust financial analysis and modelling.

Context of Opportunity / Main Accountabilities

This is an exciting opportunity to join a purpose-led organisation where financial insight directly supports long-term value creation for the UK.

Key responsibilities include:

• Owning and acting as the super user of the FP&A Anaplan model, ensuring data integrity and effective use across planning and reporting cycles.

• Coordinating the consolidation of monthly forecasts, annual budgets and long-term plans, providing clear visibility of key assumptions and performance drivers.

• Producing high-quality financial reporting and performance packs for senior leadership and Board audiences.

• Delivering detailed variance analysis, identifying trends, risks, opportunities and performance drivers across the business.

• Providing forward-looking insight through scenario planning, forecasting and risk assessment.

• Building strong partnerships with Commercial SBU and Group Partners Finance teams, constructively challenging assumptions and improving forecast quality.

• Supporting capital allocation decisions by connecting financial plans with value creation, return on investment and strategic priorities.

• Driving enhancements to planning, reporting and performance management processes.

Most Important Skills Based Requirements

• Professional finance qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) or relevant experience.

• Strong experience in financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning within a complex organisation.

• Strong understanding of FP&A best practice, performance management and financial reporting.

• Proven ability to analyse financial data, identify key drivers and communicate insights effectively to senior stakeholders.

• Experience working with planning systems; Anaplan experience is highly desirable.

• Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills, with experience managing large datasets.

• Strong stakeholder management skills and confidence influencing and constructively challenging colleagues at all levels.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex information into clear business insight.

• Highly organised, detail-oriented and committed to continuous improvement.

Our Offering / benefits:

As well as a competitive salary, pension and performance related bonus offering, we have a wealth of benefits available ranging from flexible working; market leading family policies and shopping discounts in the West End, to private healthcare; life and critical illness cover and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work life balance and your wellbeing highly, enabling you to be your best self to work.

Disability Disclaimer:

We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.

If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us directly, or at careers@thecrownestate.co.uk

Please note that if we receive a high volume of applications, we may close this advert early. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible.