Strategic Finance Manager (12 months)

Join us as a Strategic Finance Manager

• We'll look to you to provide commercial and financial analysis to help influence key business decisions across pricing, reforecasting and business cases
• You'll act as a finance business partner assessing the forecast for deposit balances, working with teams on the pricing of fixed savings accounts and the review of deposit balance flows to understand customer behaviour
• Gain valuable exposure and hone your expertise as you advance your career in this analytical and insight driven role
• We're offering this role for a period of 12 months

As a Strategic Finance Manager within Retail Finance, you'll help to drive value for the business and assist the leadership team to make key product, cost and investment specific decisions by providing insight and market knowledge while helping to manage the financial performance of the business.

You'll also be:

• Understanding and challenging financial performance, providing relevant and meaningful insight to the business including internal and external MI such as competitor analysis
• Collaborating with other Finance teams to provide specific financial plans, forecasts, stress testing and customer, market or segment analysis
• Supporting the provision of review and challenge to ensure the optimum use of resources presented in investment decisions and business cases
• Using the data and analytics thinking required to solve strategic problems using the latest tools and techniques and contributing towards automation and simplification of key Finance-wide services such as dashboards
• Analysing financial regulatory change impact on products and services
• Providing investment tracking and forecasting reviews

To succeed in this role, you'll need good stakeholder management skills and the ability to communicate and influence. Along with planning and organisation capabilities, you'll need the ability to deal with ambiguity, uncertainty and risk and work in a flexible environment.

You'll also demonstrate:

• Good data analysis and modelling skills
• The ability to communicate complex financial information in a concise and non-technical manner
• The ability to create and review plans, forecasts, models and stress scenarios
• Strategic awareness and the ability to apply business knowledge, expertise and challenge to support the business
• Good finance functional knowledge, accounting knowledge and product area and market segment knowledge