Finance Business Intelligence Manager

• You'll workin the Planning and Performance team within Finance which is theGroup's centre of excellence for strategic planning, forecastingand performance management
• You'll be supportingand challenging our franchises to drive sustainable and purpose-ledvalue for the bank's broad stakeholder groups providing insight andguidance to the bank's executive team
• You'llwork in a broad and diverse high performing team, anticipating andadapting to new challenges and opportunities, ensuring that theGroup continues to help people, families and businesses tothrive

Whatyou'll do

As a FinanceBusiness Intelligence Manager, you'll play a key role in theplanning of core strategic and financial processes such as theannual budget, monthly forecasting, quarterly external reportingand other external investorrequirements.

You'll also beworking with customers and strategic finance partners to identifyand define opportunities for income improvement, cost efficienciesand effective deployment of balance sheet and capital across ourfranchises and divisions.

Keyaspects of your role willinclude:

• Creatingforecasts and budgets and working with others to align them withbusiness aspirations
• Providing input to thedevelopment of strategic business plans, budgets and forecasts,scenario planning, analysis and cost managementinitiatives
• Working with technology partners todeliver information and simplification of financial models andmanagement dashboards
• Developing financialplanning models that deliver timely, robust, action-orientedoutputs that can drive commercial discussions anddecisions

Theskills you'll need

To besuccessful in this role, you'll need strong financial, analyticaland logical skills together with an enquiring nature and skillset,along with good problem-solvingskills.

We'll also expect youto have:

• A CIMA,CA, ACCA or CFA qualification, or previous experience with a strongrecord of application in a businessenvironment
• A demonstrable ability to work wellwith teams in different locations and in differentdepartments
• Strong process and systems skills,with an understanding of how to improve existing systems andchallenge existing processes
• Practicalexperience of forecasting and budgeting as well as both technicaland non-technical communication offindings
• Good interpersonal and communicationskills