Key Responsibilities:
- Stakeholder Engagement: Develop and maintain relationships with stakeholders across functions and the business, ensuring clear communications and sharing of information.
- Project Management: Apply understanding of project management principles to oversee complex projects and ensure timely delivery.
- Communication and Leadership: Lead and present to senior stakeholders, demonstrating excellent communication skills across all media.
- Regulatory and Accounting Expertise: Leverage extensive experience in regulatory reporting and accounting to operate effectively in Finance, Risk, and technical environments.
- Operational Readiness: Serve as a vital link into delivery teams, ensuring quality in operational readiness planning and seamless transition to new processes.
- Requirements Gathering: Conduct comprehensive requirements gathering and documentation, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and regulatory requirements.
- Change Management: Drive change initiatives with a positive, can-do attitude, inspiring team members to embrace improvements and adopt new practices.
- Process Mapping: Utilise process mapping and system tools to create efficient and effective finance processes, ensuring alignment with the bank's operational structure.
Qualifications / skills / experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business Administration, Accounting, or a related field is desirable (but not essential).
- Programme, project or change management qualifications desirable (but not essential) (e.g. PRINCE2, MSP, AgilePM, etc.)
- Project management software, especially JIRA.
- Extensive experience in a regulatory or finance/accounting-focused role within a banking environment.
- Proven ability to build and develop relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
- Strong understanding of finance operations and processes, particularly within a retail banking context.
- Experience with UK regulatory and / or statutory reporting.
- Demonstrated experience in managing a team and working collaboratively in a Finance Change environment.
- Solid understanding of financial control, regulatory reporting, stress testing, and financial planning and analysis.
Randstad Financial & Professional encourage applications from individuals of all ages & backgrounds. Appointment will be made on merit alone but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK. Randstad Financial & Professional acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment & an employment business for temporary recruitment as defined by the Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Business Regulations 2003
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