Business Unit Reporting Analyst

NatWest Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Business Unit Reporting Analyst to enhance their finance operations. In this hybrid role, you will engage with key stakeholders, manage financial control outputs, and ensure timely reporting. Your expertise in accounting and finance will be pivotal in delivering accurate financial information and supporting process improvements. This position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact within a dynamic team, while enjoying the flexibility of hybrid work arrangements. If you're ready to take your career to the next level in a solutions-driven environment, this role is for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in global finance teams managing tight deadlines.
• Strong understanding of financial control and reporting outputs.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality financial outputs for reporting.
• Support process improvements and systems implementations.

Skills

Financial Control

Reporting Outputs

Stakeholder Management

Process Improvement

Accounting Qualification

Education

Qualified Accountant

Working Towards Qualification

Job description

Join us as a Business Unit Reporting Analyst

• You’ll be helping to deliver our end-to-end Business Unit Reporting control activities for each of our franchise and legal entities and assisting our customers at a senior level in key finance areas.
• Day-to-day, you’ll be establishing working relationships with key stakeholders in Product Control, Financial Control, and other customers within the wider Finance function.
• If you’re ready for a new challenge in a solutions-driven role and want to bring a competitive edge to your career profile, this could be the position that you’ve been looking for.
• We offer a hybrid way of working where you’ll be based in our Manchester office at least two days a week, with the rest of your time working from home.

What you’ll do

Your daily responsibilities will include reviewing product-level data outputs from the Product Control teams to ensure they’re appropriately recorded, substantiated, and reflect our position. You’ll do this by complying with policies and regularly evaluating the effectiveness of our controls.

Additionally, you’ll deliver within the service level agreement to provide a full set of high-quality and accurate financial outputs supporting statutory, regulatory, and management reporting.

Your top priorities will include:

• Ensuring the delivery of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial information to support internal and external reporting, with added value through commentary and analysis.
• Completing assigned activities promptly, ensuring all reports and outputs are produced on time and of high quality.
• Supporting change initiatives, process improvements, and systems implementations related to our processes and applications.
• Identifying process improvement opportunities and sharing them with the reviewer, lead, or wider team.
• Troubleshooting queries and submitting KPIs in a timely manner.

The skills you’ll need

To succeed in this role, you should be a qualified accountant or working towards a qualification, with experience in global finance teams, managing tight deadlines, and key finance deliverables.

Furthermore, you’ll need:

• Experience managing core financial control and reporting outputs, including ledger close, balance sheet substantiation, statutory and management reporting, and external audits.
• The ability to build and strengthen relationships with key stakeholders across the finance function.

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date:

02/05/2025

Ways of Working:

Hybrid