Join as a Trading Product Control Associate
Join a team that is accountable for closing and maintaining the integrity of the ledger for our Commercial & Institutional business
You’ll be delivering an accurate understanding of the financial position, including key business drivers for material movements
Gain valuable experience and hone your expertise as you advance your career in this challenging role
We offer a hybrid way of working where you'll be in our Edinburgh office a minimum of two days per week, with the rest of your time working from home
As a Trading Product Control Associate, you’ll be responsible for the daily P&L and monthly balance sheet reporting for the bank’s trading desks which sit within NatWest Markets. This will help the bank to effectively manage its trading position, demonstrate strong daily controls, and enable management of market risk.
You’ll establish and maintain strong working relationships with key customers and stakeholders, and deliver high quality and consistent financial, statutory, regulatory, and management reporting outputs. You’ll comply with relevant policies and consider and escalate the adequacy and effectiveness of the business’s controls on a regular basis.
Day to day, 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
Prepare month-end accounting, such as journal preparation, reviews, and account reconciliation
Investigate process or system issues
Support systems testing, such as user acceptance testing and system or process improvement initiatives
To succeed in this role, you’ll bring experience in core financial and product control delivery and reporting outputs, including ledger close, balance sheet substantiation, statutory and management reporting, and external audit.
We’ll also look to you to have:
Knowledge of international accounting standards
Experience in delivering change in a financial services environment
The ability to identify, build, and enhance key relationships at a senior level
Experience in investigating and probing issues with cross-business impact
An understanding of intercompany and contra account usage requirements and intercompany reconciliations and substantiation
Hours
35Job Posting Closing Date:
12/06/2026Ways of Working:HybridSkills Required
- Experience in core financial and product control delivery, including ledger close and P&L reporting
- Experience with balance sheet substantiation and intercompany reconciliations
- Knowledge of international accounting standards
- Experience preparing month-end accounting, journal preparation and account reconciliation
- Experience with statutory and management reporting and supporting external audit
- Experience delivering change in a financial services environment and supporting system implementations
- Ability to investigate and probe cross-business issues and escalate control concerns
- Ability to build and maintain senior-level stakeholder relationships
- Experience supporting systems testing including user acceptance testing
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.
