Finance Manager - Retail Divisional Planning

JOB TITLE: Finance Manager – Retail Divisional Planning

SALARY: As per range

LOCATION: Leeds, Wellington Place

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS: Bristol Harbourside, Cardiff, Halifax Trinity Road

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

An exciting opportunity to join the Retail Divisional Planning team and lead executive insight for the UK's largest Retail Banking business. This role sits at the heart of Retail Finance, supporting consolidated forecasting, stress testing and executive decision-making across the business.

You'll work closely with senior finance leaders to provide meaningful insight on financial performance, helping shape strategic decisions and future outcomes. It's a unique opportunity to gain exposure across a broad range of Retail products while making a visible impact within a high-profile team!

What you’ll be doing:

• Shape and deliver high-quality executive consolidated planning decks covering the Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet, demonstrating advanced storytelling capability and ensuring accuracy and completeness throughout each forecasting cycle.

• Co-ordinate and lead Retail Finance stress testing activities, working with a broad range of people across Group, Finance Business Partners, Treasury and senior Finance leadership.

• Lead and deliver other planning activities including income waterfalls, margin evolution and ad hoc analysis for Divisional Finance Directors and Finance Directors, ensuring appropriate governance and control throughout.

• Apply a pragmatic approach to problem-solving and deliver effective solutions to support key planning and stress testing activities.

• Demonstrate strong commercial awareness, sound judgement and a questioning approach while managing multiple partners through planning and stress testing cycles.

• Continuously improve existing stress testing processes to increase efficiency, enhance outputs and strengthen collaboration across multiple functions.

• Act as a role model for the Group's culture and leadership behaviours through visible leadership and collaboration.

Why join us?

We’re transforming at pace. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We’re growing, and we’d love you to be part of the journey.

What we’re looking for:

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with 3+ years' as a Finance professional including financial planning, forecasting and analysis within a Financial Services setting.

• 3+ years' experience preparing and presenting financial insights, management information or executive-level reporting within a complex organisation. Demonstrating strong communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to simplify complex financial information for all levels of the organisation.

• Strong leadership, taking ownership and leading cross-functional planning, forecasting or stress testing activities and building positive relationships, with capability to influence others and drive forward actions.

• Aptitude to thrive in a fast-paced environment and under pressure, whilst delivering accurate output, showing ability to prioritise multiple deadlines and maintain high levels of accuracy.

• Curiosity to learn and grow, enjoying being challenged by new opportunities that arise.

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

This is a place for you

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready to make an impact? Apply today.