JOB TITLE: Senior Manager, Performance Analysis and Planning
SALARY: £85,255 - £100,300
LOCATION(S): Leeds
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in our office in Leeds
About this opportunity
We have an opportunity for an experienced finance professional to join our Financial Performance & Analysis (FP&A) team within Group Corporate Treasury! Specifically, the role focuses on the Capital & Issuance desk a key function in securing and building the financial strength and performance of the Group. As such the successful candidate will have proven ability to work with a team to clearly communicate with senior stakeholders both within and outside of their own division.
Day to day you'll be;
- Co-ordinating GCT's Capital & Issuance input into Group wide planning and stress testing activities - including the creation of latest view forecasts.
- Managing the monthly actuals, explaining variances to plan back to business activity.
- Ensuring that appropriate controls are in place to ensure that the financial results are robust.
- Taking ownership for implementing formal development frameworks for your team, while informally coaching and mentoring others throughout the organisation and investing in own personal development.
- Contributing towards the maintenance of the department's risk and controls framework
- Implementing the Finance strategy - 'Harnessing Data to Enhance Control, Build Efficiency and Drive Value for the Group'
About us
If you think all banks are the same, you'd be wrong. We're an innovative, constantly evolving business that's shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that's empowering its people.
What you'll need
- A qualified accountant with relevant post-qualification experience.
- Understanding of Capital within a bank, the products used to manage along with wider knowledge of a Group Treasury function within a Bank.
- Strong IFRS 9 accounting knowledge on products that Treasury will trade.
- Knowledge of the regulatory environment and the LBG legal entity structure
- Highly analytical and able to draw out key messages to support and influence decision making.
- Recognising the importance of strong controls and a willingness to keep challenging and improving our controls environment.
And any experience of these would be really useful
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts in an understandable manner to a wide range of partners, often those at senior levels.
- Willingness to proactively work with other areas of finance and the business to resolve issues.
- A change mind-set - keen to challenge and make continual improvements to our ways of working.
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 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.