Senior Finance Manager Divisional & External Reporting

The key responsibilities of the role are to deliver a high-quality full P&L and Balance Sheet Executive Reporting suite for the Retail Divisional Finance Director as well as a highly accurate and thorough External Reporting output. This role reports to the Head of Divisional Finance and External Reporting and is responsible for a small team of Finance Managers.

Day to day you will:

• Lead, develop and champion your team to deliver a high-performance mentality and encourage them to embrace stretching development objectives
• Support your team in providing insightful, high quality Executive Reporting, through advanced storytelling capability and ensuring accuracy and completeness
• Take responsibility for leading the regular monthly and quarterly reporting processes, bringing together numerous teams and stakeholders to provide insight on financial and commercial performance
• Oversee the Retail Valuation in Resolution process and associated reporting
• Develop strong relationships with stakeholders external to the team to ensure alignment in narrative across all areas

What you’ll need:

• Curiosity and drive to think differently and bring new insights, challenge the way we currently do things and look for ways we can improve them
• Ability to take ownership and work collaboratively
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to make the complex simple
• Strong analytical and interpretative skills including good judgement
• Proactive development mentality: ‘develop ourselves to deliver better’ 

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Ideally you will be a qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA)
• Stakeholder management - capability to build and maintain strong working relationships internally across the Retail Bank, Retail and Group Finance and other key partners
• Able to deliver at pace, accurately, collaboratively, and with an appreciation of wider factors

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies