Senior Manager, Flash Reporting and Planning (14 month secondment)

JOB TITLE: Senior Manager, Flash Reporting and Planning - 14 month FTC

LOCATION(S): Bristol

SALARY: £83,411 - £98,138

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the above office

About this opportunity

The Commercial Banking business provides a customer centric approach for UK businesses and businesses with strong links to the UK. Through the network of relationship managers, CB provides clients with authoritative advice on their businesses and the products they need to help them secure growth, balance risk, and improve efficiency.

Within CB Finance, the Flash and Planning team deliver financial planning, results, and analysis including business insight across Commercial Banking. The team produces income modelling in addition to providing challenge and insight into the CB forecast plans whilst continuously improving the underlying processes.

The key responsibilities of the role are to deliver the monthly flash processes, flash to final, forecasts, 4YOP, and reporting on performance to the Divisional FD, BU CEOs, and Group Finance, all supported by robust and insightful analysis.

This role will continue to build and maintain a successful team and ensure colleagues are led and developed effectively with our culture and vision embedded through transparent leadership. Your team will act as a conduit to provide a full suite of Finance services to the Finance Business Partners and work closely with Centres of Excellence on performance issues, business priorities, and changing strategy.

Success will come from being adept at building collaborative relationships across the organisation and having excellent influencing skills, aligning colleagues at all levels to achieve our goals. It will also be driven by having a clear understanding of the business strategy and the market context that crafts the medium-term plan, coupled with strong experience of plan financials, underlying business drivers, and risks/opportunities.

Day to day you'll be;

• Supporting the coordination, consolidation, and delivery of key activities (Flash, 4 year plans, quarterly forecasts, and LVs)
• Modelling and working closely with the FBPs to deliver insight & analysis of Commercial Banking financial performance
• Management/co-ordination of PAX submissions into Group Finance for both Flash and Forecasting
• Providing MI and insight to support a wide range of partners, including Finance Business Partners
• Delivering operational improvement and using capacity released to centralise additional process type activity

About us

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.

What you'll need

• Line management experience, mentoring and developing teams to excel, growing productivity and advocacy
• Be a qualified accountant with post qualified experience
• Consistent track record in planning/forecasting
• Credentials that demonstrate working in a time-pressured and dynamic environment with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail
• Experienced in developing and significantly improving processes including the Planning Analytics tool
• Excellent communication skills, keeping it simple and providing valuable insight.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, and build an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

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. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, 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

Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.