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Financial Planning Manager

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field
  • 7+ years of experience in FPA, corporate finance, or a related finance role
  • Experience supporting senior leaders through budgeting, forecasting, performance analysis, and financial decision support
  • Strong systems aptitude; experience with SAP or similar ERP/planning tools preferred

Responsibilities

  • Partner with the Associate Director of Tagetik’s largest region and business leaders to support strategic and operational decision-making
  • Lead key FPA processes including budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, management reporting, and performance analysis
  • Work closely with global functional teams to develop budgets, build forecasts, and improve financial visibility, resource allocation, and accountability
  • Analyze results versus plan, explain key drivers and variances, and provide actionable insight to senior management

About the company

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Wolters Kluwer

Information Services & Data Providers

Wolters Kluwer (EURONEXT: WKL) is a global leader in professional information, software solutions, and services for the healthcare, tax and accounting, financial and corporate compliance, legal and regulatory, and corporate performance and ESG sectors. We help our customers make critical decisions every day by providing expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with specialized technology and services. Wolters Kluwer reported 2022 annual revenues of €5.5 billion. The group serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries, and employs approximately 20,000 people worldwide. The company is headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands.

Company details

Company typeLarge
IndustryInformation Services & Data Providers
Company size10001

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Job description

#BETHEDIFFERENCE

If making a difference matters to you, then you matter to us.

Join us, at Wolters Kluwer, and be part of a dynamic global technology company that makes a difference every day. We’re innovators with impact. We provide expert software & information solutions that the world’s leading professionals rely on, in the moments that matter most.

You’ll be supported by collaborative colleagues who share a purpose. We are 21,000 people unique in our dreams, life stories, abilities, and passions who come together every day with one ambition: to make a difference.​ We do our best work together, connecting to create new innovations with impact.

The Financial Planning Manager will serve as a strategic finance partner to senior business leaders, helping shape budgets, forecasts, investment decisions, and performance management across the global organization. The role is central to driving cost visibility, disciplined planning, and fact-based decision support. Given Tagetik’s EPM SaaS model and its ecosystem of implementation partners, the role also requires a working understanding of how a services organization operates and is measured.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with the Associate Director of Tagetik’s largest region and business leaders to support strategic and operational decision-making.

  • Lead key FP&A processes including budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, management reporting, and performance analysis 

  • Work closely with global functional teams to develop budgets, build forecasts, and improve financial visibility, resource allocation, and accountability 

  • Partner with the professional services organization and implementation partners to plan, forecast, and analyze services performance, including billable hours, utilization, percent-of-completion revenue recognition, and project milestones 

  • Support global cost management by identifying risks, opportunities, and actions across the cost base and by providing clear financial recommendations

  • Build financial models, business cases, and scenario analyses to support projects, investments, and strategic initiatives 

  • Analyze results versus plan, explain key drivers and variances, and provide actionable insight to senior management 

  • Drive continuous improvement in planning, forecasting, and reporting processes to strengthen consistency, transparency, and decision support 

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field 

  • 7+ years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or a related finance role 

  • Experience supporting senior leaders through budgeting, forecasting, performance analysis, and financial decision support 

  • Strong systems aptitude; experience with SAP or similar ERP/planning tools preferred 

  • Exposure to a SaaS and/or professional services business—and familiarity with services metrics such as billable hours, utilization, percent-of-completion, and project milestones—strongly preferred 

  • Experience working across regions or in a global business environment preferred 

  • Travel may be required globally based on business needs 

Our Offer

  • Room for personal development through external, internal training tools and learning and development program #GROW. Be your unique self, share your creative ideas, do your best work, and take time to grow in our caring and inclusive culture where you can belong. 

  • Yearly performance bonus based on your seniority.

  • Referral bonus, meal vouchers, monthly allowance, gift vouchers twice a year.

  • Corporate Health Insurance.

  • Mindfulness and Wellbeing programs (Wellbeats, MyQuillibrium, Compsych, Mind & Body webinars).

  • Up to 28 days of annual leave based on seniority.

  • We have a strong Work from Home culture and take into consideration punctual needs and more.

  • Flexible working schedule. You’ll find the flexibility for balance in your life.

  • Being part of Wolters Kluwer you will contribute to the development of our own products and software solutions. Together with our customers, we help to advance sustainability, health, justice, prosperity, and commerce around the world.

Our Interview Practices

To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process.

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.

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