FP&A CoE Staff Costs Sr Analyst

The FPA CoE Staff Costs Senior Analyst provides high-quality staff cost reporting, reconciliations, modelling support and data integrity across the entire organisation, including English Exams (EE), Cultural Engagement (CE), Professional Services (PS) and Corporate HQ. The role strengthens the core staff cost capability within the FPA Centre of Excellence (CoE), ensuring financial data that underpins workforce planning, forecasting and reporting is accurate, consistent and aligned with corporate standards.

Working under the CoE Staff Costs Manager, the postholder supports the delivery of standardised staff cost processes across SAP, Anaplan and consolidated reporting tools. This includes reconciling workforce datasets, preparing variance insights, and maintaining aligned structures for FTE, headcount, NPW and pay components.

The role acts as a key data partner to Business Decision Support (BDS) teams, regional finance teams and HR/People Function teams, ensuring that staff cost information provided to the business is complete, accurate and actionable.

The FPA CoE Staff Costs Senior Analyst provides financial and data support that enables informed decision-making relating to workforce changes, organisational design, pay and reward, recruitment, attrition and cost optimisation. It contributes to a consistent, centrally governed staff cost planning framework across the organisation.