Join us as a Business Unit Reporting Team Lead
- We’ll look to you to support the delivery of end-to-end business unit reporting control activities for each of our franchises and legal entities
- Your daily responsibilities will see you providing support to our customers at a senior level in key finance areas, while helping with the transition to a Global Process Owner model
- If you’re ready for a new challenge and want to enhance your leadership skills in a role where you’ll contribute as a mentor to our skills development programme, we’d like to hear from you
- We're offering this role for a period of nine months
What you’ll do
Day-to-day, you’ll be establishing working relationships with key customers and stakeholders in the wider Finance team, including our franchise and legal entity Financial Controllers, while complying with relevant policies and considering and escalating the effectiveness of our controls on a regular basis.
Alongside this, you’ll be helping to shape the strategy and operating model for financial control for your business area, with the objective of establishing and maintaining the trust and confidence of our key customers and stakeholders.
Your top priorities will include:
- Delivering within SLA of a full set of high quality and consistently accurate financial outputs in order to support statutory, regulatory and management reporting
- Ensuring the integrity of monthly, quarterly and annual financial information, including the balance sheet, profit and loss account, reporting and other supporting data
- Reviewing the product level data outputs from the product control teams to make sure that they’re appropriately recorded and substantiated to reflect our position
- Establishing robust analytical procedures over the balance sheet and profit and loss account to build an understanding of our business and its key drivers
- Overseeing and making sure that processes and procedures adhere to the appropriate policies and control environment governance, including SOX
- Supporting strategic imperatives, including culture and people development by participating or leading the programme as a specialist
- Driving strategic initiatives while working closely with different teams to build a robust customer ethos
The skills you’ll need
To be successful in this role, you’ll need to be a qualified accountant and have a record of application within a business environment. You’ll also have experience of leading global teams of finance professionals, working to tight deadlines and managing key finance deliverables.
Furthermore, you’ll need:
- Knowledge of change best practices
- An understanding of how to deliver change in the financial services industry or medium to large corporates
- Experience of Oracle financial applications and using the latest data management techniques and applications, including AWS and Tableau
- The ability to build and enhance key relationships at a senior level, while influencing and challenging as required
- Experience of leading the delivery of financial control and reporting outputs, including ledger close, balance sheet substantiation, statutory and management reporting and external audits
Hours
35
Job Posting Closing Date:
02/05/2025
Ways of Working:Hybrid
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Flexible Benefits — A flexible ValueAccount structure with pension and benefit funding allows tailoring of health, protection, lifestyle, and savings options, with unused amounts typically paid as cash. This flexibility supports personalisation of coverage, particularly in Great Britain where the framework is most detailed.
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Retirement Support — Employer-funded pension contributions are provided on top of salary in Great Britain, alongside automatic retirement enrollment and share/save programs. This creates structured long‑term wealth support as part of total reward.
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Parental & Family Support — UK policies outline extended maternity, adoption and equal partner leave on full pay with a phased return, plus paid neonatal care leave. These provisions are positioned as market‑leading and complement broader flexibility resources.
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We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate. As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these. Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence. One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025. We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
