Programme Performance Manager

CLOSE BROTHERS; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in London seeks a financial leader to drive efficiencies and support operational teams. You will monitor financial targets, challenge initiatives, and ensure stakeholders understand financial impacts. Ideal candidates are skilled in prioritization, interpersonal relationships, and data translation, with programme finance experience being a plus. This role also offers hybrid working options and benefits.

Benefits

Private medical

Discounted health checks

Stakeholder pension contribution

Cycle to work scheme

Gym discounts

Purchase additional holiday

Qualifications

• Evidence of managing a wide range of BAU activities to meet deadlines.
• Demonstrable interpersonal skills to create and maintain relationships.
• Experience in translating financial impacts from service objectives.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial leadership and identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Challenge operational initiatives focusing on efficiency.
• Model scenarios for financial impact analysis.
• Support stakeholders with accurate information and insight.
• Monitor financial targets and remedial actions.

Skills

Ownership and prioritisation

Interpersonal skills

Financial impact interpretation

Process improvement

Data translation into actionable items

Education

Programme finance experience

Accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Job description

The Vacancy

The Vacancy – Job description summary retained for context.

Overview

At Close Brothers we look to recruit individuals from all different backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box. We celebrate diversity, promote inclusivity and are open to discuss flexible work options to help you balance your work and home life.

Join the Close Brothers Finance Team where you will forecast, track and assist operational teams to deliver programmes and projects to deliver new ways of working, efficiencies and processes to assist the Bank’s success. Working as part of the Finance team our ideal team member will have previous experience in working with stakeholders to translate finances into language and presentations everyone can understand with excellent analytical skills and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial leadership, work with the operational teams to identify cost savings opportunities and obtain commitment from all stakeholders to deliver performance-improving initiatives.
• Provide oversight and challenge of operational initiatives with a key focus on delivery and business efficiency.
• Model various scenarios to ensure the financial impact of different choices is understood to help improve the efficiency of decision making.
• Support the programme stakeholders by ensuring that information is accurately reflected and providing insight into future initiatives and strategic direction.
• Monitor the financial targets and performance based on Bank Strategy. Agree remedial action with stakeholders where necessary and support the delivery of cost-saving initiatives.
• Deliver insightful business information to Head of Finance and Head of Programmes, supporting Bank Executive Committee to make informed decisions.
• Support the sign-off of new roles and costs, working on business cases with budget holders to ensure the Bank gets value from its investment spend.

We would love to hear from you if you have/are

• Evidence of taking ownership and ability to prioritise and manage a wide range of BAU activities at the same time to meet tight deadlines.
• Demonstrable interpersonal skills to create, maintain and build relationships between finance and operating teams with the ability to influence others to create ownership for deliverables.
• Experience of interpreting service objectives and actions into financial impacts.
• Experience of rolling out process improvements to improve efficiency of organisations.
• An ability to translate large amounts of data into useful information and actionable items.

It is not essential but it would be great if you have

• Programme finance experience
• An accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

We are an inclusive organisation and committed to ensuring our recruitment process is as accessible as possible to everyone. We will make adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition. If you need the job description or application form in an alternative format or would like to discuss the recruitment process with us, please email us at [e-mail] or request a call back.

About Us

At Close Brothers we support employees to balance their work life priorities and in this role you will be able to enjoy a mixture of hybrid working.

Close Brothers is a leading UK merchant banking group providing lending, deposit taking and securities trading. We employ approximately 3,000 people, principally in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Close Brothers Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250.

To find out more about Close Brothers, please visit our careers page: https://www.closebrothers.com/careers

To find out more about life at Close Brothers: https://www.closebrothers.com/life-close-brothers#374017299-899295541

To find out more about our benefits: https://www.closebrothers.com/employee-benefits

To find out more about our commitment to creating an inclusive environment: Our Responsibility - Diversity and inclusion … Close Brothers Group

The Company

At Close Brothers Group, we are all connected by our mission to be the best place in the UK for wealth professionals and their clients.

We believe that everyone should think ahead, have a financial plan and invest wisely. Our clients are professionals, business owners, individuals, charities, families, and employers, who rely on our clear financial advice and investment management services to preserve and grow their long-term savings and investments.

We are a team of about 900 people based in 15 offices across the UK. Our geographic footprint means we can combine a local approach with face-to-face services to enable strong, long-term relationships with our clients.

Sustainability is fundamental to our purpose and we have a responsibility to help address the social, economic and environmental challenges facing our business, colleagues and clients. We strive to do the right thing and are dedicated to helping the charities that matter most to our people.

Our vision is to develop an open and inclusive company that ensures everyone is valued, respected and included, so that in years to come our business will represent a diverse and inclusive workforce from the top down.

We look to recruit individuals from all different backgrounds. If this job is of interest to you but you do not meet every criteria then we encourage you still to apply as we are open to providing training opportunities. As an early adopter of hybrid working we are open to discussing all types of flexible working options, helping you to balance your work and home life.

The Benefits

Private medical

Discounted health checks

Stakeholder pension contribution

Cycle to work scheme

Gym discounts

Purchase additional holiday