Join us as a Finance & Reg Reporting Change Lead
- In this crucial role, you’ll lead Finance and data‑driven reporting programmes across finance and treasury systems, regulatory reporting, prudential reporting, and capital optimisation
- We’ll look to you to partner with Finance, Change, and Data leaders to shape investment cases and ensure robust governance
- This is your chance to help create lasting value as you drive benefits realisation across Finance, Change, and Data programmes
- If applying for Jersey or Isle of Man and you don't already live here, you'll need to clearly state in your CV that you have the right to live and work in your chosen location to be considered for this role
As a Finance & Reg Reporting Change Lead, you’ll define the programme scope, objectives, and structure, and lead the articulation of the financial business case. You’ll establish governance and controls aligned to Finance, Data, and Change frameworks, ensuring compliance and effective risk management. You’ll also own programme plans, resource allocation, and progress reporting, maintaining transparency across milestones, costs, and benefits while ensuring that delivery outcomes meet strategic objectives and support Finance and Reg Reporting transformation.
We’ll look to you as well to work closely with delivery teams to assign and optimise resources across Finance, Data, and Change communities. You’ll build and maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders, influencing decisions to maximise business value. Moreover, you’ll be accountable for programme-level risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, including impacts arising from other programmes.
In addition, you’ll be:
- Coaching project managers and acting as escalation point for delivery challenges
- Tracking and reporting programme costs and benefits, ensuring delivery within budget and proactive variance management
- Leading investment governance activities, including business case reviews, benefit realisation, and post-investment appraisals
- Driving adoption of data governance standards and ensuring consistent data collection and reporting across the programme, working collaboratively with the Chief Information Office & Data & Analytics colleagues
- Partnering with customer experience teams to embed improvements enabled by Finance and Reg Reporting change
We’re looking for someone with programme management qualification such as MSP, PgMP, or APM, along with proven experience delivering strategic Finance and Reg Reporting transformation initiatives. You’ll also need to bring experience managing complex programmes with multiple dependencies across Finance, Data, and Change portfolios, as well as strong financial acumen, including investment appraisal, budgeting, forecasting, and benefits tracking.
In addition, you’ll need:
- A solid understanding of end-to-end Finance processes such as FP&A and regulatory standards and risk and dependency management, as well as data governance principles
- Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence at senior levels across multiple business areas
- Experience with hybrid delivery approaches, including Agile and Waterfall, along with enterprise change standards
- An understanding of finance systems, data management principles, and emerging technology including RPA and AI
- Strong analytical capabilities
Hours
35Job Posting Closing Date:
25/08/2026Ways of Working:Remote FirstSkills Required
- Programme management qualification such as MSP, PgMP, or APM
- Proven experience delivering strategic Finance and regulatory reporting transformation initiatives
- Experience managing complex programmes with dependencies across Finance, Data, and Change portfolios
- Strong financial acumen, including investment appraisal, budgeting, forecasting, and benefits tracking
- Understanding of end-to-end Finance processes, including FP&A, regulatory standards, risk management, and dependency management
- Understanding of data governance principles
- Strong senior stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Experience with hybrid Agile and Waterfall delivery approaches and enterprise change standards
- Understanding of finance systems, data management principles, RPA, and AI
- Strong analytical capabilities
NatWest Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about NatWest Group and has not been reviewed or approved by NatWest Group.
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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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What We Do
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.
