Finance Business Intelligence Manager

Join us as a Finance Business Intelligence Manager

• You'll work in the Planning and Performance team within Finance which is the Group's centre of excellence for strategic planning, forecasting and performance management
• You'll be supporting and challenging our franchises to drive sustainable and purpose-led value for the bank's broad stakeholder groups providing insight and guidance to the bank's executive team
• You'll work in a broad and diverse high performing team, anticipating and adapting to new challenges and opportunities, ensuring that the Group continues to help people, families and businesses to thrive

As a Finance Business Intelligence Manager, you'll play a key role in the planning of core strategic and financial processes such as the annual budget, monthly forecasting, quarterly external reporting and other external investor requirements.

You'll also be working with customers and strategic finance partners to identify and define opportunities for income improvement, cost efficiencies and effective deployment of balance sheet and capital across our franchises and divisions.

Key aspects of your role will include:

• Creating forecasts and budgets and working with others to align them with business aspirations
• Providing input to the development of strategic business plans, budgets and forecasts, scenario planning, analysis and cost management initiatives
• Working with technology partners to deliver information and simplification of financial models and management dashboards
• Developing financial planning models that deliver timely, robust, action-oriented outputs that can drive commercial discussions and decisions

To be successful in this role, you'll need strong financial, analytical and logical skills together with an enquiring nature and skillset, along with good problem-solving skills.

We'll also expect you to have:

• A CIMA, CA, ACCA or CFA qualification, or previous experience with a strong record of application in a business environment
• A demonstrable ability to work well with teams in different locations and in different departments
• Strong process and systems skills, with an understanding of how to improve existing systems and challenge existing processes
• Practical experience of forecasting and budgeting as well as both technical and non-technical communication of findings
• Good interpersonal and communication skills