Finance and Planning Manager
Finance and Planning Manager
Finance
A Finance and Planning Manager for a large chemical or pharmaceutical company is involved in planning and allocating budgets, in particular for research and development. The main role involves ensuring that budgetary issues are in line with senior management strategic policy and that adequate funds are available to achieve the targets set out for a specific timeframe.
Personal skills
To enter the graduate scheme it is preferable to have a degree with some technical element for research purposes. Achieving the position of finance and planning manager will usually come through promotion based on experience. Skills: good IT skills; good presentation skills; good numeracy and literacy skills; working to deadlines; team-working.
Salary
£25,000 to £45,000 per year
Key skills
Organisational
Technical
Supervisory
Finance
- The financial sector has more than 1.2 million staff in 34,000 workplaces in the UK
- There are approximately 9,600 VAT registered financial services firms in the UK
- The sector spends about 3.4% of its annual wage bill on employee training
- The workforce is evenly split between men and women in the finance sector
- The sector needs around 60,000 new entrants annually to fill new roles and replace retiring staff