Strategic Finance Partner, Technology & Digital

NatWest Group; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading banking institution seeks a Strategic Finance Partner to lead a team and provide expert financial advice crucial for strategic planning. In this high-impact role, you'll partner with senior leaders, driving financial decisions, managing resources efficiently, and fostering strategic changes to align with business goals. Ideal candidates are qualified accountants with strong finance expertise and exceptional stakeholder management abilities.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with strong finance functional knowledge.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and lead strategic change.
• Proven stakeholder management skills at ExCo level.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to develop strategic goals and objectives.
• Provide strategic financial advice and oversee finance activities.
• Challenge and review investment decisions strategically.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Strategic awareness

Financial knowledge

Communication

Influence

Education

Qualified accountant

Job description

Join us as a Strategic Finance Partner, Technology & Digital

• We’ll look to you to undertake a leadership role providing support and challenge across a number of areas of technology to help the business achieve their strategic goals
• You’ll be developing, shaping and influencing the strategic direction of the business and providing high quality strategic financial advice and insight to support decision making
• Gain valuable exposure and hone your expertise as you advance your career in this key finance role

What you'll do

As a Strategic Finance Partner, you’ll be leading a team and working in partnership with the business to develop their strategic goals and objectives by applying strong financial and market segment, cost and investment knowledge.

You’ll also be:

• Partnering senior leaders in the delivery of the bank’s strategy and influencing spend and investment priorities by understanding their business with a strong commercial acumen
• Providing strategic financial advice supported by specific financial plans, forecasts and market or segment analysis in collaboration with Finance centres of excellence
• Delivering critical review and challenge to ensure optimum use of resources presented in investment decisions and business cases
• Proactively influencing to make sure cost and capital management leadership is present within the business
• Overseeing strategic finance activities including overlays for plan, forecasts and stress scenarios
• Driving all business finance requirements, including month end requirements, strategic planning, functional reporting requirements and ensuring the timely escalation of issues

The skills you'll need

To succeed in this role, you’ll be a qualified accountant and have strong stakeholder management skills, along with the ability to communicate, influence and resolve conflict at ExCo level. You’ll also need strategic awareness and the ability to apply business knowledge, expertise and challenge to support the business and identify long-term impacts of plans.

You’ll also demonstrate:

• The ability to deal with ambiguity, uncertainty and risk and work in a flexible environment
• Strong finance functional knowledge, accounting knowledge and market segment knowledge
• The ability to provoke and lead strategic change within senior executive teams
• The ability to lead, motivate and develop a team of finance professionals