Join us as a Financial Control Analyst
- Take on a new role and provide control of our financial ledger
- We’ll look to you to prepare month-end accounting, including journals preparation, reviews and account reconciliation
- With no two days the same, you can expect lots of variety as you help us deliver a banking service that’s beyond what’s expected
- We're offering this role at senior analyst level
In this role, you’ll achieve control of our financial ledger through policy setting and control, risk and systems frameworks, leading to the delivery of the balance sheet and related externally disclosed statutory information. You’ll be responsible for the timely and accurate delivery of the financial ledger close in compliance with our policies and guidelines.
We’ll also look to you to support all financial transactions to make sure they are appropriately recorded, substantiated and reconciled including the balance sheet and profit and loss accounts.
Through the course of your work, you’ll:
- Undertake reconciliations, accounting, MI and control activities to support the ledger close, reconciliation, substantiation and reporting
- Support change initiatives, process improvements and in-system implementations related to individual processes and applications
- Provide and support input into the end to end control and ownership of franchise and legal entity balance sheets for your business area
- Support systems testing such as user acceptance testing, and system or process improvement initiatives
- Provide resolution of finance user queries and daily activity support to finance teams
We’re looking for an individual with experience in financial control, reporting processes and accounting, ideally gained in a banking or financial services environment. You’ll be proficient in financial accounting knowledge, and understand revenue, balance sheet, costs and headcount measures.
Ideally, you’ll also hold a management degree, or a CA, CS or CWA qualification.
In addition, you’ll bring:
- At least three years of experience and deliver financial control through ledger close, reconciliations, balance sheet substantiation, and regulatory reporting
- Drive process improvements and finance transformation using tools such as Oracle, Power BI, Python, AI, and Tableau
- Experience of delivering core financial control and reporting outputs, including ledger close, balance sheet substantiation, statutory and management reporting, and external audit
- The ability to make sound decisions and judgements to resolve problems
- You’ll be working fixed shift patterns of 11:00 am to 8:00 pm
- An awareness of relevant policies and external legislation
Hours
45Job Posting Closing Date:
06/09/2026Skills Required
- At least three years of experience in financial control, ledger close, reconciliations, balance sheet substantiation, and regulatory reporting
- Experience with financial control, reporting processes, and accounting
- Proficiency in financial accounting, including revenue, balance sheet, costs, and headcount measures
- Experience delivering ledger close, balance sheet substantiation, statutory and management reporting, and external audit outputs
- Ability to make sound decisions and judgements to resolve problems
- Awareness of relevant policies and external legislation
- Management degree, CA, CS, or CWA qualification
- Experience using Oracle, Power BI, Python, AI, or Tableau for process improvement and finance transformation
NatWest Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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.
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