Join us as a Financial Reporting Risk Relationship Manager
- This is an opportunity to work with a range of teams to effectively apply Financial Reporting methodology
- You’ll be able to build and maintain a wide network of stakeholders of varying degrees of seniority
- It’s a chance to have a tangible effect on our function, put your existing skills to the test, and advance your career
- You'll attend the office in person a minimum of two days per week, with the rest of your time working from home
Under the guidance of the External Compliance Senior Manager, you’ll be helping to develop the Financial Reporting Risk SOX 404, regulatory, and SAO governance frameworks and strategy for the bank. This will include scoping, documentation, quality assurance over control testing, assessing issues, liaising with internal and external auditors, and working with colleagues and experts across the team.
You’ll also be:
- Responsible for oversight, review, and challenge ensuring adherence to the frameworks
- Supporting the SAO certification process, including collating and reviewing certificates
- Working with the team to prepare and provide regular consolidated reporting to the Financial Reporting Risk forums and other senior bodies
- Developing and maintaining Financial Reporting processes, mechanisms, and systems
- Working closely with management to identify synergies in reporting within the team, ensuring consistency and accuracy of reporting between SOX 404, regulatory, SAO, and Finance operational risk
- Providing secretariat support for relevant Financial Reporting committees and forums
You'll be a highly motivated and qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent) joining our External Compliance team. You'll also need experience of working in a controls or risk management advisory role, and managing and delivering controls or risk management reporting. You’ll bring good analytical skills with an aptitude to review and challenge both quantitative and qualitative matters, as well as the ability to work together with stakeholders to resolve issues.
You’ll also need:
- Knowledge of SOX 404 and SAO, and experience of working in the financial services sector
- The ability to work on your own initiative
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly and succinctly articulate issues
- The ability to influence and negotiate across all areas and at senior levels
- A proven ability to build and maintain relationships across a wide range of stakeholders
Hours
35Job Posting Closing Date:
10/09/2026Ways of Working:HybridSkills Required
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent)
- Experience in a controls or risk management advisory role
- Experience managing and delivering controls or risk management reporting
- Knowledge of SOX 404 and SAO
- Experience working in the financial services sector
- Strong analytical skills with ability to review and challenge quantitative and qualitative matters
- Strong communication skills, ability to articulate issues clearly and succinctly
- Ability to influence and negotiate across all areas and at senior levels
- Proven ability to build and maintain relationships across a wide range of stakeholders
- Ability to work on own initiative
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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.
