Job Description

We are looking for a Head of Finance to lead on developing and scaling our finance capabilities. You’ll report directly to our CFO and work cross-functionally with a variety of teams.

What you’ll do:

• Scale finance in a fast-growing startup
• Continue to refine our daily, weekly and monthly management reporting
• Prepare the bank’s financial statements and exercise oversight of associated controls to ensure the completeness and accuracy of the financial statements in compliance with appropriate accounting standards
• Implement a robust automated regulatory reporting framework and oversee regulatory reporting
• Maintain the Finance Manual and Financial Risk Management Policy
• Ensure compliance with all relevant regulatory capital and liquidity requirements
• Manage the budgeting and business plan processes and ensure alignment with regular evaluation of the bank’s capital and liquidity requirements
• Oversee the bank’s tax affairs, ensuring that tax obligations are minimised within the law and good practice and manage compliance with the HMRC Code of Practice on Taxation for Banks
• Ensure appropriate expenditure control is in place and operates effectively
• Liaise with external auditors and ensure that the external audit is carried out effectively
• Oversee other finance functions, including purchase ledger, reconciliations and payroll.

Benefits

• 3 personal health days
• An employer-sponsored volunteer programme (up to 4 hours per month supported by our partner Matchable)
• A workplace pension, with 5% employee contribution and a 3% employer top off
• All equipment you need to work remotely effectively, with a MacBook Pro as standard
• Room to grow and excel within a fast-paced, high growth start-up

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• You’ve held senior finance roles at another bank
• You have experience developing and implementing financial and regulatory reporting in financial institutions
• You have a clear understanding of retail banking
• You have good knowledge of the prudential requirements for banks
• You love solving problems and taking an analytical approach
• You’ve managed, developed and coached finance teams
• You enjoy managing a variety of stakeholders with different needs
• You are adaptable and will enjoy working in a fast paced startup where you are given autonomy and ownership