Business Unit Reporting Team Lead - Manchester, United Kingdom - NatWest Group

NatWest Group

Verified Company

Manchester, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Our people work differently depending on their jobs and needs. From hybrid working to flexible hours, we have plenty of options that help our people to thrive.

This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

Join us as a Business Unit Reporting Team Lead

We'll look to you to support the delivery of endtoend 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 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:

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 FCs, 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 an SLA of a full set of high quality and consistently accurate financial outputs in order to support statutory, regulatory and management reporting outputs
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 organisation 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:

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
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