Overview

As Senior Cost Planner, you will oversee financial planning, forecasting, governance, and cost control across technology and business programmes. You will partner with Product, Engineering, Finance, Procurement, and Portfolio teams to deliver insights and steer investment decisions in Capex and Opex. You'll drive accuracy, compliance, and efficiency through robust analysis, dashboards, and automation.

This role offers the chance to shape financial governance across multi‐million‐pound portfolios and improve decision support. You'll join a performance‐driven team that values collaboration and clear, data‐driven storytelling to enable growth.

Compensaciones / Beneficios Hybrid work model

Bonus on top of gross salary

Meal voucher (Ticket Restaurant)

Versátil working hours

20 days remote work

Private Health and Life Insurance

Responsabilidades

Lead budgeting, forecasting, and month-end activities across multiple portfolios

Develop and maintain financial plans covering Capex, Opex, capitalised overheads, and resource costs

Monitor spend vs budget, identifying risks, opportunities, and corrective actions

Ensure compliance with financial policies and governance requirements; manage funding, accruals, recharges, and investment tracking

Partner with Product, Engineering, Delivery,



and Finance to provide financial reporting and insight; track costs against funding and investment plans

Analyse variances, trends, and cost drivers; provide recommendations to leadership

Act as SME for Capex, Opex, and capitalisation policies; maximise value and compliance

Produce dashboards, reports, and executive presentations; drive reporting automation and improvement

Identify opportunities to simplify processes and improve financial controls; lead automation initiatives

Build relationships across Finance, Product, Engineering, Delivery, and Procurement; influence senior stakeholders

Mentor and support other Cost Planners; share best practices across the team

Requisitos principales Strong experience in financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and cost management

Good understanding of Capex, Opex, capitalisation, and financial governance

Experience supporting large technology, engineering, or transformation portfolios

Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills

Ability to present financial information clearly to senior stakeholders

Experience using accounting systems (e.g., SAP/Oracle) and reporting tools

Track record of driving process improvement and automation

Experience managing budgets exceeding 50m stakeholder management communication problem-solving

SAP

Oracle financial dashboards

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