# E&E FP&A CoE Insights Manager Job British Council Canonical URL: https://primejobalerts.com/jobs/ee-fpa-coe-insights-manager-job-british-council Company: British Council Category: Accounting Location: Kenya Work type: Full-time Work arrangement: On-site Published: 2026-09-14 Expires: 2026-10-29 ## Job Description Finance Jobs. British Council Jobs. E&E FP&A CoE Insights Manager. Leading financial analysis, generating management insights, and optimizing reporting processes, requiring an Accounting/Finance Degree, ACCA/CPA, and 5+ years experience. ### The Role Leads the Centre of Excellence (CoE) function, ensuring high-quality financial data, standardised processes, and strong governance across English & Exams. Oversees insights analysts, drives data integrity and process optimisation, and enables effective planning, forecasting, reporting, and decision-making through reliable financial information and operational excellence. ### Responsibilities Data Quality & Reconciliation Oversight - Act as the subject matter expert for E&E financial data, ensuring data quality, consistency, and accurate reconciliations across SAP, Anaplan, reporting templates, and regional records. - Monitor key financial datasets, identify variances and trends, and provide clear narratives and insights to support planning, forecasting, reporting, and informed decision-making. - Maintain audit-ready documentation and collaborate closely with Business Partners to ensure alignment between financial data inputs and business-facing outputs. Process Standardisation & Efficiency - Leads standardisation of financial processes, reporting, and automation initiatives to improve efficiency, consistency, and internal controls. Internal Financial Support for E&E - Deliver accurate, timely, and reconciled financial information, financial summaries, and trend analyses to support effective performance reviews and business decision-making. - Collaborate with stakeholders to resolve data discrepancies, improve reporting quality, and maintain consistent data definitions for comparability across regions and markets. Line Management & Team Leadership - Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team, setting clear objectives, managing performance, and building capability to deliver high-quality financial planning, reporting, and analytical insights. - Foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture while effectively prioritising and allocating workloads to ensure successful delivery across multiple country demands and stakeholder requirements. Governance, Controls & Internal Assurance - Supports BDS compliance, audits, and assurance activities while strengthening data governance, documentation standards, master data structures, and reporting frameworks to improve financial control, consistency, and insights across markets, regions, and consolidated results. ### Role specific knowledge and experience ### Essential - Significant experience in financial data analysis, FP&A, management accounting or similar. - Experience in leading data quality and reconciliation processes. - Experience with Anaplan or similar EPM platforms. - Experience working with multiple stakeholders in a matrix or multi‑country organisational context. - Demonstrated ability to work with complex financial datasets across multiple markets or business units. - Strong capability in financial modelling, forecasting and analytics. - Ability to simplify complexity for senior executives. - Strong data literacy (Power BI, dashboarding and data modelling), as well as good business story telling with data. ### Desirable - Track record of delivering accurate financial reporting and analysis to tight deadlines. - Experience with SAP or similar ERP platforms. - Experience delivering financial training or capacity‑building. ### Role specific skills - Advanced data quality and reconciliation skills – able to identify inconsistencies and guide corrective action. - Analysis and variance report preparation – able to interpret data patterns and provide succinct preliminary insights. - Team leadership – able to coach, develop and manage a small team. - EPM systems proficiency – strong working knowledge of Anaplan, and experience working with SAP and associated reporting tools. - Accuracy and attention to detail – ensuring high‑integrity financial data across markets and regions. - Communication skills – able to explain financial data clearly to finance and non‑finance audiences. ### Language Requirements The British Council systems and global processes operate in English. Written and verbal proficiency in English is required. ### How to Apply Click here to apply ## Apply Use the canonical Prime Job Alerts page for full application instructions and source verification.