[ref. x17978520] NatWest - Business Unit Reporting Control Analyst (15 months)

• You’ll be helping to deliver our end-to-end business unit reporting control activities for our franchise and legal entities and assisting our customers at a senior level in key finance areas
• Day-to-day, you’ll be establishing working relationships with key customers in Product Control, financial control stakeholders in the wider financial team and divisional function heads
• If you’re ready for a new challenge in a solutions-driven role, and want to bring a competitive edge to your career profile, this could be the position that you’ve been looking for
• We're offering this role for a period of 15 months, and we offer a hybrid way of working where you’ll be based in our Manchester office at least two days a week, with the rest of your time working from home

What you’ll do

Your daily responsibilities will see you reviewing product level data outputs from the product control teams to make sure that they’re recorded and substantiated and reflect our position. To do this, you’ll be complying with policies and considering the effectiveness of our controls on a regular basis.

In addition, you’ll be delivering within the service level agreement to provide a full set of high quality and accurate financial, statutory, regulatory and management reporting outputs. You’ll also be responsible for troubleshooting queries and submitting KPIs on a timely basis.

Your top priorities will include:

• Supporting change initiatives, process improvements and systems implementations that are related to our processes and applications
• Being responsible for the delivery and integrity of monthly financial information, statutory and external reporting, value added commentary and analysis for your area
• Undertaking activities that are assigned to you on a timely basis and highlighting any process improvement opportunities
• Providing the end-to-end control and ownership of franchise and legal entity analytical reviews for your area
• Identifying process improvement ideas and sharing them with the reviewer or lead and making sure that all reports and outputs are produced on time and are of high quality
• Communicating process changes to your teams, providing input into process improvements and making sure that existing work and development activities are the focus of improvements

The skills you’ll need

To be successful in this role, you’ll be a qualified accountant or be working towards a qualification and have a background of being part of global teams of finance professionals, working to tight deadlines and managing key finance deliverables.

Alongside this, you’ll have experience of managing the delivery of core financial control and reporting outputs, including ledger close, balance sheet substantiation, statutory and management reporting and external audits.

Furthermore, you’ll need:

• Knowledge of the latest data management techniques and applications, like Python, AWS and Tableau
• An understanding of change best practices and experience of delivering change in the financial services industry or medium to large corporates
• The ability to build and enhance key relationships at a senior level, while influencing and challenging as required