Join us as a Strategic Finance Partner, Coutts Private and Coutts Wealth and Performance Management
- Play a pivotal role by partnering with the executive leads of our Coutts Private and Coutts Wealth businesses as a trusted strategic advisor, shaping the commercial direction and long-term value creation for Coutts’ client coverage teams
- Develop, shape, and influence the strategic direction of these customer businesses and provide high-quality strategic financial advice and insight to drive decision-making
- Influence sustainable growth and client outcomes by overseeing the establishment of performance and sales effectiveness tracking to guide how the business grows and improve its client offering
This senior Strategic Finance Partner role will support Coutts Private and Coutts Wealth and Performance Management, operating at executive level with regular exposure to Group Finance and the wider NatWest Group leadership. Your responsibilities include working closely with executive leads to achieve their strategic goals, acting as a trusted advisor and thought partner to senior stakeholders and the wider business through robust challenge and insight to influence significant commercial and strategic decisions.
Moreover, you’ll provide strategic and expert advice supported by clear financial plans, forecasts, stress testing, and customer, market or segment analysis, working in close collaboration with the wider Finance function and the business. You’ll also proactively shape key performance across income generation, customer value, product proposition, and P&L and cost management while delivering critical review and constructive challenge to ensure optimal use of resources across investment decisions and business cases.
You’ll also:
- Establish a central performance management capability within the Finance team, with accountability for delivering the performance and sales insights required to manage the business effectively
- Oversee business-partnering activities, including product overlays for planning, forecasting, and stress-testing scenarios
- Drive all business finance requirements, including month-end processes, strategic planning, functional reporting, and the timely escalation of risks and issues
We’re looking for someone with significant experience operating as a senior finance leader at executive level within private banking or wealth management, with a proven track record of influencing senior business partners and shaping strategy in complex, regulated environments. To succeed in this role, you’ll also need to bring strong personal credibility, sound judgement, and resilience, enabling you to operate effectively in high‑stakes, ambiguous situations where commercial, client, and risk considerations must be balanced at pace.
In addition, you must demonstrate strong finance functional knowledge and accounting expertise, alongside a deep understanding of product area and market segment, including proven capability in P&L leadership, investment decision-making, and performance management.
Furthermore, you’ll need to have:
- 15+of experience in finance across private banking or wealth management, including relevant qualifications
- The ability to provoke and lead strategic change within senior executive teams
- The ability to lead, motivate, and develop a team of finance professionals
Hours
35Job Posting Closing Date:
16/04/2026Ways of Working:Hybrid
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.
