At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead finance and regulatory reporting programmes, driving transformation and governance.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking financial institution focused on innovation and collaboration.
- Benefits: Enjoy remote work flexibility, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Work in a dynamic environment with strong career advancement potential.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in finance while shaping strategic initiatives and driving change.
- Qualifications: Experience in programme management and finance transformation is essential.
The predicted salary is between 56700 - 69300 £ per year.
Join us as a Finance & Reg Reporting Change Lead. In this crucial role, you’ll lead Finance and data-driven reporting programmes across finance and treasury systems, regulatory reporting, prudential reporting, and capital optimisation. We’ll look to you to partner with Finance, Change, and Data leaders to shape investment cases and ensure robust governance. This is your chance to help create lasting value as you drive benefits realisation across Finance, Change, and Data programmes.
What you'll do:
- Define the programme scope, objectives, and structure, and lead the articulation of the financial business case.
- Establish governance and controls aligned to Finance, Data, and Change frameworks, ensuring compliance and effective risk management.
- Own programme plans, resource allocation, and progress reporting, maintaining transparency across milestones, costs, and benefits while ensuring that delivery outcomes meet strategic objectives and support Finance and Reg Reporting transformation.
- Work closely with delivery teams to assign and optimise resources across Finance, Data, and Change communities.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders, influencing decisions to maximise business value.
- Be accountable for programme-level risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, including impacts arising from other programmes.
- Coach project managers and act as escalation point for delivery challenges.
- Track and report programme costs and benefits, ensuring delivery within budget and proactive variance management.
- Lead investment governance activities, including business case reviews, benefit realisation, and post-investment appraisals.
- Drive adoption of data governance standards and ensure consistent data collection and reporting across the programme, working collaboratively with the Chief Information Office & Data & Analytics colleagues.
- Partner with customer experience teams to embed improvements enabled by Finance and Reg Reporting change.
The skills you'll need:
- Programme management qualification such as MSP, PgMP, or APM, along with proven experience delivering strategic Finance and Reg Reporting transformation initiatives.
- Experience managing complex programmes with multiple dependencies across Finance, Data, and Change portfolios.
- Strong financial acumen, including investment appraisal, budgeting, forecasting, and benefits tracking.
- A solid understanding of end-to-end Finance processes such as FP&A and regulatory standards and risk and dependency management, as well as data governance principles.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence at senior levels across multiple business areas.
- Experience with hybrid delivery approaches, including Agile and Waterfall, along with enterprise change standards.
- An understanding of finance systems, data management principles, and emerging technology including RPA and AI.
- Strong analytical capabilities.
Hours: 35
Ways of Working: Remote First
Location: Douglas-IOM; St Helier-Jersey; Manchester; Edinburgh; London
Type: Full time
Finance & Reg Reporting Change Lead in Manchester employer: NatWest Group
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