Overall Summary
At Close Brothers we look to recruit individuals from all different backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box. We celebrate diversity, promote inclusivity and are open to discuss flexible work options to help you balance your work and home life.
Join the Close Brothers Finance Team where you will forecast, track and assist operational teams to deliver programmes and projects to delivery new ways of working, efficiencies and processes to assist the Bank’s success. Working as part of the Finance team our ideal team member will have previous experience in working with stakeholders to translate finances into language and presentations everyone can understand with excellent analytical skills and attention to detail.
Responsibilities
- Provide financial leadership, work with the operational teams to identify cost savings opportunity and gave commitment from all stakeholders to deliver performance improving initiatives.
- Provide oversight and challenge of operational initiatives with key focus on delivery and business efficiency.
- The financial modelling of various scenarios to ensure that the financial impact of different choices are understood to help improve the efficiency of decision making.
- Support the programme stakeholders by ensuring that information is accurately reflected and providing insight into future initiatives and strategic direction.
- Monitor the financial targets and performance based on Bank Strategy. Agreeing remedial action with stakeholders where necessary and supporting the deliver of cost saving initiatives.
- Deliver insightful business information to Head of Finance and head of programmes, supporting Bank Executive Committee to make informed decisions.
- Supporting the sign off the new roles and costs, working on businesses cases with budget holders to ensure that Bank is getting the most value out of its investment spend.
WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF YOU HAVE/ARE:
- Evidence of taking ownership and ability to prioritise and deal with a wide range of business as usual activities at the same time to meet tight deadlines.
- Demonstrable interpersonal skills which enables you to create, maintain and build on the relationship between the finance and operating teams with a focus on your ability to influence others to create ownership for the deliverables.
- Experience of interpreting service objectives and actions into financial impacts.
- Experience of rolling out process improvements to improve efficiency of organisations.
- An ability to translate large amounts of data into useful information and actionable items.
IT IS NOT ESSENTIAL BUT IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU HAVE:
- Programme finance experience
- An accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
We are an inclusive organisation and committed to ensuring our recruitment process is as accessible as possible to everyone. We will make adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition. If you need the job description or application form in an alternative format or would like to discuss the recruitment process with us, please email us at
[email protected] or request a call back.
About Us
At Close Brothers we support employees to balance their work life priorities and in this role you will be able to enjoy a mixture of hybrid working.
Close Brothers is a leading UK merchant banking group providing lending, deposit taking and securities trading. We employ approximately 3,000 people, principally in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Close Brothers Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250.
To find out more about Close Brothers, please visit our careers page: https://www.closebrothers.com/careers
To find out more about life at Close Brothers:
https://www.closebrothers.com/life-close-brothers#374017299-899295541
To find out more about our benefits:
https://www.closebrothers.com/employee-benefits
To find out more about our commitment to creating an inclusive environment:
Our Responsibility - Diversity and inclusion ¦ Close Brothers Group
