Business Unit Reporting Analyst

NatWest; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Business Unit Reporting Analyst to enhance their financial reporting processes. In this hybrid role, you'll collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure accurate financial outputs and contribute to process improvements. Your expertise in financial control and reporting will be essential as you navigate tight deadlines and deliver high-quality analysis. This position offers a unique opportunity to develop your career in a dynamic finance environment while enjoying a flexible work arrangement that balances office and remote work.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant or working towards a qualification.
• Experience in global finance teams and managing finance deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Review product-level data outputs to ensure accuracy.
• Deliver high-quality financial outputs for reporting.

Skills

Financial Control

Reporting Outputs

Stakeholder Management

Process Improvement

Education

Qualified Accountant

Finance 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 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 are appropriately recorded, substantiated, and reflect our position. To do this, you'll be complying with policies and regularly assessing the effectiveness of our controls.

Additionally, you'll deliver within the service level agreement to provide a complete set of high-quality, accurate financial outputs to support 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 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'll be a qualified accountant or working towards a qualification, with experience in global finance teams, working to tight deadlines, and managing key finance deliverables.

Furthermore, you'll need:

• Experience managing the delivery of 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.