Head of Finance

Key responsibilities include:

- Take ownership and delivery of a range of credit risk and data projects, including analytics, reporting, portfolio management, automating processes, testing and more.
- Management Reporting
- Lead the production of monthly management accounts ensuring major variances are explained and, if appropriate, identify remedial action/s.
- Produce and develop the monthly reporting pack to senior stakeholders, to strict deadlines. Additionally, responsible for drafting the Finance report, which is used to communicate results internally and externally.
- Accountable for providing financial monitoring services for investment, modelling and project spend, including tracking efficiency savings versus business case targets.
- Financial Planning and forecasting
- Lead the annual budget process, ensuring a workable and locally owned set of plans which are agreed by the Board.
- Lead the production of periodic re-forecasts, ensuring risks and opportunities are highlighted.
- Provide strategic and long-term financial planning support to the CFO.
- Business Partner Support
- Build strong and positive relationships with budget holders and senior managers, providing the necessary assistance and professional advice to assist them with the financial aspects of their duties.
- Ensure the Finance Business Partner(s) are supporting each area of the business appropriately so that managers across the business understand and 'own' their numbers and receive analysis that informs and supports effective decision making.
- Through the Finance Business Partner(s), responsible for costing and budgeting projects and resources.
- Be the focal point for complex financial queries, providing advice to stakeholders.
- Financial Accounting and Reporting:

- Responsible for all accounting activities for all legal entities, including statutory reporting.
- Management accountability for the team responsible for statutory reporting, accounting, and accounts payable.
- Responsible for the preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements (to include quarterly statutory accounts, income statements, balance sheet, cash flow statements, to name a few).
- Coordinate with external and internal auditors and interact with the Audit Committee.
- Systems / Processes / Controls
- As the process lead for the budget, forecast and financial management reporting processes, you are responsible for identifying and implementing efficiency and value improvements
- Investigate and implement improvements in 'self-service' budgeting / forecasting and reporting.
- Ensure the integrity of the financial data supplied by the Finance team to other areas of the business and to external stakeholders.
- Also ensure the accuracy of reporting and compliance with FS regulatory requirements as well as our statutory obligations for producing financial management information.
- Accountable for continuous improvement of system and legislative changes that impact your responsible specialist areas.
About you
To be considered for this opportunity, we are looking for the following:

- Financial services experience (preferably in banking or consumer credit)
- Public company reporting experience
- Strong decision support background with experience of managing budget and forecast processes in a complex environment.
- Ability to understand the strategic business goals of an organisation, able to 'look beyond the numbers' and understand the wider business context.
- Strong analytical skills, able to identify and interpret trends and improve financial forecasting.
- Strong finance system skills, including excel and using and developing reporting tools.
- Management Accounts preparation.
- Experience of managing and maintaining financial control frameworks in a high-volume financial services environment.
- Previous experience of successfully managing and developing systems and upgrades.
- Strong staff management skills. Including the ability to develop individuals to reach their potential and deal with underperformance if required.