Job Description

You will lead the team on all risk and control related matters, ensuring appropriate governance and control within the Finance function, including Finance’s interaction with the rest of the business.

• Leading the finance risk and control function, ensuring ongoing continuous improvement
• Driving ongoing development of the control testing framework, covering adequacy and effectiveness testing for finance processes and controls
• Steering ongoing risk assessment of finance processes and SOPs; identifying control gaps and developing appropriate remediating controls
• Leading the monthly Finance Risk Committee (FRC), ensuring appropriate disclosure within supporting packs
• Monitoring and managing risks and issues across the Finance team
• Managing both internal and external senior stakeholders, driving the finance controls agenda and ensuring risks and issues are well understood and securing senior buy-in to support change
• Monitoring and drive closure of both Internal and External audit points
• Developing and provide reporting and representation on risk governing forums, including Executive Risk Committee and Risk Oversight Committee, and to the CFO
• Ensuring robust governance and monitoring of finance IT change requests
• Collaborating closely with risk and control teams across the bank (e.g. operations) to develop regular hand-offs, with a particular focus on the impacts on the finance and regulatory information and on the finance team

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Passionate about providing unparalleled levels of service and convenience for customers
• Able to work and learn quickly in a fast paced, fun and dynamic environment
• Prepared to stick at something – we wonder what might be the issue if someone has jumped from job to job as we want people who are prepared to learn and grow
• Care about doing a great job and exceeding expectations with the quality of what you do