Finance Manager - Retail Planning & Stress Testing
SALARY: £62,874 - £69,860
HOURS: Full time
LOCATION(S): Halifax, Bristol, Cardiff & Leeds
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.
About this opportunity
If you think all banks are the same, you'd be wrong. We're an innovative, fast-changing business that's shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that's empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.
An exciting and unique opportunity has arisen to join the Retail Divisional Planning team to lead Executive insight for the largest Retail Banking Business in the UK.
We pride ourselves on continuing to build an outstanding planning and analysis team. We're looking to recruit a new team member with drive, curiosity and the ability to deliver an outstanding service.
This role is within the team that produces the consolidated Retail forecasts and leads the Stress Testing exercises, where you'll communicate key story points to Finance Directors. It offers a fantastic opportunity to build a deep understanding of Retail products, work closely with senior colleagues within finance, and use your skills to really make a difference!
You'll need an appetite to work in a fast paced and changing environment and be comfortable working under pressure while maintaining excellent analytical, presentational, verbal and non-verbal communication skills. You'll also need to be able to build strong relationships, work well in a team and deliver through others.
Our Hybrid ways of working means that you can find a work-life balance that suits you, with a mix of home and office working. The expectation currently is that you work a minimum of two days a week in the Office.
Key responsibilities:
- Shape and deliver high quality Executive consolidated planning decks covering the Profit & Loss and Balance sheet, demonstrating advanced storytelling capability and ensuring accuracy and completeness, through each forecasting round.
- Co-ordinate and lead effectively the Stress Testing for Retail Finance, facing into a broad range of customers across Group, GCT, Finance Business Partners, and of course the Divisional Finance Director.
- Lead and deliver other planning activities including income waterfalls, margin evolution and other ad hoc analysis for Finance Directors and Divisional Finance Director, ensuring governance and control throughout.
- Demonstrate commercial understanding, sound judgment and a questioning attitude with the ability to manage multiple customers, through the planning and stress testing cycles.
- Provide a pragmatic approach to problem solving and a desire to deliver solutions, which are essential to lead these activities.
- Actively develop the current stress testing process, to improve efficiency, output and enhance collaboration across the multiple functions.
- Embed the Group's culture and vision through visible leadership, being a role model for the Group's leadership behaviours.
About us
We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.
What you'll need
We're looking for a Finance professional with a proven record gained in a range of roles, ideally with experience of Financial Services. Plus, you'll need to have/be:
- Display strong leadership skills, comfortable taking ownership and leading through others, along with responsibility for their own work.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills, with a consistent track record in creating and sharing clear and tailored communications, at all levels of the organisation.
- Capability to influence - using compelling arguments to gain the support and dedication of others to drive forward actions.
- Experience of building and establishing positive relationships.
- Upbeat and pro-active approach with the ability to act on your own initiative.
- Aptitude to thrive in a fast-paced environment and under pressure, whilst delivering accurate outputs.
- Eager to learn and have a curious attitude, whilst enjoying being challenged by new opportunities that arise.
- Accounting qualification preferable (ACCA, CIMA, ACA)
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We're committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.
As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.
We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you'd like an adjustment to the recruitment process just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
- Share schemes including free shares
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Through joining the team we'll provide an empowering culture that is committed to developing colleagues, with a balanced focus on training and career development for all.
Open to forms of flexible working that will meet both the business and colleagues needs.
If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch! We'd love to hear from you!