Financial Control Manager (12 months)

Join us as a Financial Control Manager

Key Responsibilities

• You’ll be responsible for the delivery and integrity of product control activities, including balance sheet, profit and loss account to support the wider financial, statutory, regulatory and management reporting within the agreed timescales.
• Lead teams to ensure accurate and timely delivery of monthly, quarterly and annual financial information.
• Accountable for your team’s performance and daily activity delivery, implementing performance measures to promote a culture of data and information quality.
• Set control frameworks and governance framework aligned to our overall strategy, ensuring adherence to the strategy, operating model, and process architecture principles.
• Perform product control activities and ensure the delivery of the assigned workload within reporting cycle deadlines.
• Review month-end production for all product-related activities within the group-wide banking architecture.
• Actively participate in strategic initiatives and drive a continuous improvement culture in the team.
• Deliver full substantiation and reconciliation of the balance sheet and profit and loss accounts within a controlled framework.
• Set and manage internal controls, developing the control framework and ensuring compliance with relevant policies.
• Deliver correct classification of new deals and products on the balance sheet.
• Establish strong analytical procedures over the balance sheet and profit and loss account.

The Skills You'll Need

• Excellent transferable experience in a financial services environment or medium to large corporates.
• Experience leading, motivating, and directing a small to medium team, ideally with global working experience.
• Experience in core financial control delivery and reporting outputs, including ledger close, balance sheet substantiation, statutory and management reporting, and external audit.
• A relevant qualification and proficiency in accounting.
• Relevant commercial insight and experience in implementing business process and procedural change in a complex environment.
• The ability to implement the operating model and strategic change.
• Experience in the optimal use of key finance technologies, such as Oracle and its modules, and associated reporting tools including Tableau or Python.
• The proven ability to drive culture and generate several ways forward to achieve team objectives.

Work Arrangement

We offer a hybrid way of working where you’ll be based in our Edinburgh office two days per week, with the rest of your time working from home. This role is available for a 12-month period.