Join us as a Strategic Finance Partner
* We’ll look to you to work in partnership with the business, providing support and challenge to help them achieve strategic goals and manage their cost base
* You’ll be developing, shaping and influencing the strategic direction of the business and providing high quality strategic advice and insight to support decision making
* Reporting to one of our Finance Directors, you’ll gain valuable exposure and hone your expertise as you advance your career in this key finance partnering role
* Lead a team of Finance professionals supporting the business areas within your portfolio
What you'll do
As a Strategic Finance Partner for the Financial Crime business, you’ll be supporting and challenging the business in achieving its strategic goals and objectives by applying strong financial, market segment and cost and investment knowledge.
You’ll also be:
* Delivering critical review and challenge to ensure optimum use of resources presented in investment decisions and business cases
* Proactively influencing to make sure cost and capital management leadership is present within the business
* Overseeing strategic finance activities including product overlays for plan, forecast and stress scenarios
* Driving all business finance requirements, including month end requirements, strategic planning and forecasting, functional reporting requirements and ensuring the timely escalation of issues
* Coaching a team to develop their skills, offering a first class experience to customers and career enhancing opportunities for team members
The skills you'll need
To succeed in this role, you’ll be a qualified accountant with strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to communicate, influence and resolve conflict at ExCo level. You’ll also need strategic awareness and the ability to apply business knowledge, expertise and challenge to support the business and identify long-term impacts of plans.
You’ll also demonstrate:
* The ability to deal with ambiguity, uncertainty and risk and work in a flexible environment
* Strong finance functional knowledge, accounting knowledge, with a focus on commerciality
* The ability to provoke and lead strategic change within senior executive teams
* The ability to lead, motivate and develop a team of finance professionals