Finance Senior Manager (Transport)

The role will have responsibility for Performance Management Reporting and Financial MI development within the Transport Business with the unique opportunity of supporting the Business Partner Team and the Business directly on new product and service initiatives which has recently included the acquisition and onboarding of Tusker. The Transport Business principally covers 2 key businesses - Black Horse (primarily consumer financing) and Lex Autolease (commercial and personal leasing). There is a huge amount of change in the Motor Industry with changing customer behaviours influencing how customers gain access to finance vehicles and how they use vehicles, which has been particularly impacted by Covid and potential longer lasting changes from that. And of course the green agenda to switch to electric vehicles which Transport has a big role to play in supporting the Group's sustainability strategy. This is a great opportunity to work with the Transport Business and our strategic partners, including Jaguar Land Rover, Tesla and Tusker to navigate our way through these changes and influence the shape of the Transport Business going forward. This Senior Manager role sits within the Retail Planning and Reporting Team which you will be welcomed into and supports financial performance reporting for the full range of products within the Retail Bank providing exposure to increase your breadth of knowledge across these products. Reporting into the Finance Director Retail Planning and Reporting, the role will manage 9 colleagues, leading and co-ordinating delivery of accurate data and information to Finance and the Transport Business ensuring financial control is at the heart of everything we do. Customer needs are one of the team's top priorities. The team's key customers are: Retail Finance Director Consumer Lending Planning and Reporting Transport Business Partners Product Analytics Team Responsibilities:

• Leading, developing, and championing your team to deliver a high-performance mentality and encouraging them to embrace stretching development objectives.
• Supporting your team in providing insightful, high quality management accounting reports, executing control, and operating as a management accounting specialist support across the Transport Finance Business.
• Build a wide network of contacts across Finance, with collaboration between teams being the key to your success in the role.
• Respond to individual and team objectives and invest in improving personal performance by growing own skills and capabilities and coaching others.
  
  We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced, highly motivated individual to lead a team of 9 colleagues within the Transport Reporting and Development team in Retail Finance., Be curious - do not accept the status quo. Challenge the way we currently do things and look for ways we can improve them.
• Be able to work collaboratively and enjoy collaborating with stakeholders from different areas.
• Ideally, you will be a qualified/nearly qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
• Ensure that great financial control is at the heart of everything we do.
• Be onsite with the team at least two days a week
And any experience of these would be really useful:
• Product Knowledge (HP, Leasing)
• Financial Services experience, Disability Confident
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• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• 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