Job Description

We’re looking for an analytically minded Financial Control Manager, with an excellent track record of dealing with complex and technical data management. As well as being technically skilled & preferably with a background in Cost and/or Resource management, you’ll need to have excellent interpersonal skills to build and maintain strong working relationships with key stakeholders across the wider bank.

We’ll need you to be a strategic thinker, goal setter, have strong delivery, and long-range planning experience. You’ll be providing all aspects of Business analysis and creating accurate and value-adding people & cost metrics that will provide insights and support decision making across various functions within Santander.

• Supporting cost control for Employment
• Helping to set FTE & People Cost Budget targets & review Forecasts
• Developing ideas to drive efficiency & cost savings
• Working with FBPs and Org Design team to understand FTE and People Cost trends & trajectory
• Creating ad-hoc analysis using people data to drive Business decisions
• Reporting FTE & other people-related metrics

Benefits

As well as a competitive salary, we offer a wide range of benefits that you can choose from and tailor to your needs. For part-time / contract roles, your salary, bonus (where eligible) and certain benefits will be prorated to reflect your working hours / contract duration.

• Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 31 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year
• £6,000 car allowance per year
• Company funded individual private medical insurance
• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates such as private medical insurance for your family, dental insurance, healthcare cash plan and health assessments
• Benefits supporting you and your family, such as death-in-service benefit, income protection, and voluntary life assurance and critical illness cover
• Share in Santander’s success by investing in our share plans

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• A strong & relevant technical background, combined with experience in data analysis, project management and relationship management.
• Ability to contribute to the overall People Strategy, utilizing communication skills, stakeholder management, strategic thinking & long-term planning.
• Knowledge & expertise with both relevant technical skills and Functional experience
• Experience delivering, reporting & analyzing cost efficiency initiatives
• Experience dealing with large volumes of data, creating accurate & reconciled reporting
• Attention to detail, with the ability to present clear & insightful outputs