Business Unit Reporting Team Lead (9 months)

NatWest; Manchester; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Business Unit Reporting Team Lead to drive financial control and reporting initiatives. In this pivotal role, you will support the delivery of accurate financial outputs and establish strong relationships with key stakeholders. You will lead a team of finance professionals, ensuring compliance with policies while fostering a culture of development and excellence. This nine-month opportunity is perfect for those looking to enhance their leadership skills and make a significant impact in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with experience in business environments.
• Proven leadership in global finance teams and tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality financial outputs for reporting.
• Establish relationships with key stakeholders in finance.

Skills

Qualified Accountant

Leadership

Financial Control

Change Management

Relationship Building

Education

Accountancy Qualification

Tools

Oracle Financial Applications

AWS

Tableau

Job description

Join us as a Business Unit Reporting Team Lead

• We'll look to you to support the delivery of end-to-end business unit reporting control activities for each of our franchises and legal entities
• Your daily responsibilities will see you providing support to our customers at a senior level in key finance areas, while helping with the transition to a Global Process Owner model
• If you're ready for a new challenge and want to enhance your leadership skills in a role where you'll contribute as a mentor to our skills development programme, we'd like to hear from you
• We're offering this role for a period of nine months

What you'll do

Day-to-day, you'll be establishing working relationships with key customers and stakeholders in the wider Finance team, including our franchise and legal entity Financial Controllers, while complying with relevant policies and considering and escalating the effectiveness of our controls on a regular basis.

Alongside this, you'll be helping to shape the strategy and operating model for financial control for your business area, with the objective of establishing and maintaining the trust and confidence of our key customers and stakeholders.

Your top priorities will include:

• Delivering within SLA of a full set of high quality and consistently accurate financial outputs in order to support statutory, regulatory and management reporting
• Ensuring the integrity of monthly, quarterly and annual financial information, including the balance sheet, profit and loss account, reporting and other supporting data
• Reviewing the product level data outputs from the product control teams to make sure that they're appropriately recorded and substantiated to reflect our position
• Establishing robust analytical procedures over the balance sheet and profit and loss account to build an understanding of our business and its key drivers
• Overseeing and making sure that processes and procedures adhere to the appropriate policies and control environment governance, including SOX
• Supporting strategic imperatives, including culture and people development by participating or leading the programme as a specialist
• Driving strategic initiatives while working closely with different teams to build a robust customer ethos

The skills you'll need

To be successful in this role, you'll need to be a qualified accountant and have a record of application within a business environment. You'll also have experience of leading global teams of finance professionals, working to tight deadlines and managing key finance deliverables.

Furthermore, you'll need:

• Knowledge of change best practices
• An understanding of how to deliver change in the financial services industry or medium to large corporates
• Experience of Oracle financial applications and using the latest data management techniques and applications, including AWS and Tableau
• The ability to build and enhance key relationships at a senior level, while influencing and challenging as required
• Experience of leading the delivery of financial control and reporting outputs, including ledger close, balance sheet substantiation, statutory and management reporting and external audits