Job Description
This role reports into the Head of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)- The FP&A team provide analysis, insight and support to the CFO and CEO of Corporate Banking- Key team deliverables include leading and managing the internal and external performance reporting for the division, co-ordinating the budgeting, forecasting and planning processes and providing ad hoc support on a range of financial management activities- Within the FP&A team, the responsibility of this role is to co-ordinate the planning and forecasting process across Corporate Banking (CB) Finance-
Requirements
Essential Experience: (Must have skills) · Professional accounting qualification (> 5 yrs PQE) · Experience of managing and co-ordinating complex, multi business planning and forecasting processes in blue chip organisations · Experience in review and challenge of budgets, forecasts, providing analysis to support senior executives in review- · PC literacy, Excel, Powerpoint · Accounting and financial management knowledge Supplementary Experience: (Useful additional skills) · Understanding of RBS financial & MI systems
Responsibilities
· Manage the delivery of the budget and forecast process across Corporate Banking, liaising with Group on key deliverables and managing the finance teams within CB to ensure timely and accurate delivery of requirements · Provide first level review and challenge of Business Unit submissions, linking to current performance and agreed objectives, providing analysis and insight on the submission to the Head of FP&A, Head of EDS and the CFO, Corporate Banking- · Manage the delivery and production of presentation packs to support the budget and forecast submissions for presentation by the CEO and CFO CB to Group Executives · Proactively identify new issues or development that will need to be input to future forecasts, e-g- changes in business structures, performance issues or changes in the external environment- · Ownership of 'toolkits' used within FP&A and across BU teams, and management of the relationship with the SSF team that produce them- · Work with month end reporting team to deliver a light touch, rolling forecast process to support longer term planning · Work collaboratively with CB Strategy team on annual Strategic Plan refresh · Khalix SME within the team (e-g- on upload templates), representing EDS on the various Khalix forums
The Individual
· Good communication skills, both oral and written, in order to ensure that decision-making and decisions are clearly articulated at a senior level within the business · Well developed analytical and interpretative skills · Strong business awareness to enable a pro-active approach to the development of plans and the management of performance · Ability to build and manage relationships across CB and Group Finance · Flexible approach and responsive to change · Proven ability to work on own initiative · Good understanding of the UK banking sector, awareness of key issues and implications · Understanding of the capital and funding side of corporate banking businesses
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