Assistant Finance Manager, (FTC / Secondment)

An exciting 9 month FTC/ secondment opportunity has arisen for a motivated individual to join the Commercial Banking Cost Centre of Excellence. The purpose of this role is to support and deliver insight, advice, and exercise control. Providing timely cost insight and equip key decision makers to utilise cost resources in the most valuable way using forward looking and historical financial information and analysis to support Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB) and Business & Commercial Banking (BCB) teams. This is an exciting and varied role, which will enable you to thrive in a supportive, diverse & dynamic team with prospects to really develop your capabilities and career. Join us in this exciting role where you will undertake CIB and BCB cost management activities including but not limited to supporting:

• Reviewing of business area reporting, challenging where necessary and providing commentary and CoE analysis & insight
• Liaising with Business Partners (BPs) and Planning & Analysis Manager for information relating to movements and month end exceptions; produce the Flash and trigger required adjustments to be actioned by the Controls team
• Supporting BPs for key meetings if appropriate
• Communicating with BP and Control teams on non-standard assumptions, review accounting outputs during month end and challenge
• Supporting the analysis and communication of unexplained variances and non-standard business driven changes related to 4 Year Operating Plan / Quarterly and Monthly Rolling Forecast
• Supporting structure changes and provide guidance on the Restatement process
• Continuously promote a culture of Process Improvement within the team
  
  Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Excel)
• PowerBI, SAP and TM1 experience
• Energetic, tenacious in the achievement of goals. Has a 'can / will do' approach and must be prepared to be hands on.
• A part qualified accountant or qualified by experience in a Finance environment., Disability Confident
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From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.

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