Advanced Specialist, Financial Reporting, Planning and Analysis Corporate Finance

Job Title: Advanced Specialist Financial Reporting Planning and Analysis

Description: As an Advanced Specialist Financial Reporting Planning and Analysis (FP&A) within Pearson Finance Services you will deliver decisionready insight and forwardlooking analysis that supports the Higher Education business. This role combines strong FP&A fundamentals with a modern approach to analyticsusing automation and AIenabled tools to improve accuracy speed and insight while maintaining robust governance and controls.

Youll wake up excited to turn complex financial data into clear performance narratives that guide better your first six months your impact will be visible through stronger forecasting routines simplified and standardised reporting and improved stakeholder confidence in financial insight. What makes this role unique is the opportunity to shape how FP&A operatesbalancing innovation with discipline in a global matrixed environment.

The Role

This role exists to own and continuously improve core FP&A cycles for the Higher Education division. Youll partner closely with senior stakeholders finance systems and data teams to deliver highquality planning reporting and performance management while strengthening processes controls and selfservice capabilities.

What Youll Own

Success in this role is defined by insight ownership and improvement:

• Core FP&A delivery: Own monthend performance reporting rolling forecasts budgets and adhoc analysis with clear decisionready commentary.
• Driverbased modelling: Build and maintain models that explain performance and quantify risks and opportunities.
• Stakeholder partnership: Align assumptions answer business questions and communicate a consistent performance narrative with senior stakeholders.
• Process standardisation & control: Strengthen planning and reporting through standard outputs clear documentation and appropriate governance and audit trails.
• Automation & analytics: Use automation and AIenabled tools to reduce manual effort and improve insight quality ensuring validation and confidentiality before distribution.
• Dashboards & selfservice: Develop and enhance dashboards define KPIs and data definitions and partner with Finance Systems and BI teams on refresh cadence and data quality.
• Team enablement: Coach and qualityreview work from junior team members contributing to capability building in modelling and financial storytelling.

About You

You bring strong FP&A capability commercial curiosity and confidence partnering with senior stakeholders.

• You hold a recognised accountancy qualification or bring equivalent experience with strong core accounting knowledge.
• You have proven experience in planning budgeting forecasting and performance management including variance analysis and executivelevel storytelling.
• Youre comfortable working endtoend with dataunderstanding sources reconciling outputs and explaining variances.
• You have a continuous improvement mindset and experience driving standardisation automation and process optimisation.
• Youre confident using AIenabled tools responsibly to accelerate analysis and drafting applying sound judgement and validation.
• You bring advanced Excel skills and experience with finance ERP and planning/reporting tools (Oracle preferred).
• Youre highly organised resilient and able to manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines.
• You communicate clearly and build trust across finance and nonfinance teams.

What Youll Get

This is an opportunity to grow your career in a highimpact FP&A role within a global organisation.

• Ownership of core FP&A cycles supporting a major business division.
• The chance to modernise planning and reporting through automation and analytics.
• Close partnership with senior business and finance leaders.
• Exposure to enterprise finance systems and data platforms.
• Professional growth in a role that values insight innovation and accountability.

Ready to Make an Impact

Apply now and help shape the future of financial insight and decisionmaking at Pearson.

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