Head of Financial Control in Solihull

About The Role

To lead the Financial Control team to deliver accurate, timely and well-controlled financial information, which is used as the foundation of all of the Group's financial reporting, and to maintain efficient and effective financial operations and services.

What you'll be doing

• Key Responsibilities

• Reporting and Close Process
  • Maintain the integrity of the Group's financial information at all times, through managing the team's reconciliation and financial processing activities and ensuring accounting standards are complied with, on a timely and accurate basis.
  • Lead and oversee accounting processes supporting critical technical areas, which include expected credit losses, EIR accounting, hedge accounting and share based payments.
• Balance Sheet Integrity and Control Environment
  • Own the balance sheet reconciliation and substantiation framework, ensuring consistent high-standards are met across the team.
  • Maintaining a strong risk and control framework across the function, ensuring risks are identified where new processes are adopted.
  • Ensure robust management of identified internal or external audit issues.
• Team Leadership
  • Lead, develop and manage a team of between twelve and fifteen people (qualified, part-qualified and non-qualified) to deliver excellent results across all aspects of its operation.
  • Build a culture of ownership, accountability, and disciplined execution, to drive accuracy and efficiency of financial control processes.
• System and Process Optimisation
  • Lead and implement change initiatives (e.g. automation/system changes) to continually improve the department's processes and deliver its services in the most effective way.
• Finance Operations
  • Oversee the Group's Accounts Payable and employee expenses activities.
  • Lead the Group's Treasury Back Office function, ensuring that monitoring and reconciliation processes are undertaken accurately and in line with regulation, and maintaining full segregation of duties from the Group's Treasury front office and middle office.
  • Oversee key tax processes undertaken in the team, to ensure HMRC obligations are met.

What you'll bring

We’re looking for an inclusive leader with both technical expertise and the ability to bring out the best in others. You will have experience of leading people through significant change projects both as a people leader and as a subject matter expert.

• Essential skills & experience

• ACCA / ACA / CIMA qualified.
• Financial services banking experience is highly desirable.
• Previously held a leadership role, overseeing individuals at various levels, supporting and motivating the team through challenging activities.
• Significant experience in respect of financial accounting, general ledger systems, reconciliations, and month end processing.
• Prompt issue analysis and proactive management of resolution.
• Leading and managing large and small change initiatives.
• Proactive in bringing new ideas and improvements to the business area.
• Communicate effectively and robustly challenge stakeholders at all levels.

Why Join Us?

• A competitive salary and benefits package including discretionary bonus.
• Matched pension contributions.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and your birthday off, on us!
• A wellbeing hour to spend doing whatever makes you happy.
• A wide range of flexible benefits from Cycle2Work to private healthcare.
• Life assurance.
• Paid volunteering days and matched charity fundraising.
• A collaborative and flexible working environment.
• Opportunities for professional development and career progression.
• A chance to make a real impact in a regulated, purpose-driven organisation.

Everyone is different. Everyone is valued.

As part of our vision to become the most trusted specialist lender in the UK, we’ve been helping customers and businesses fulfil their ambitions since 1952. In that time, we’ve learned that we’re more than the sum of our parts. We’re a strong Group because of our people and our strengths; specialist, expert, ambitious and also diverse. All of our people are different and this is something we celebrate.

Every one of our employees brings unique talent, ability and perspective to their role. That’s why Secure Trust Bank Group nurtures differences. We understand that we perform better because we’re not cast from the same mould. We actively embrace and support diversity, work with leading industry bodies and promote initiatives that reinforce our philosophy of giving you the freedom to be who you are.

We’re an award-winning bank providing savings accounts and lending services to over one million customers. We’re Secure Trust Bank Group. We embrace difference.

About The Company

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, but we can't achieve our customer focused strategy without the right people in our team. At Secure Trust Bank, we know that people are our biggest investment, which is why a career with us is not just a job. It’s the chance to be part of something bigger, to add real value to the Bank and help us constantly improve, in order to achieve our ambition of becoming the best bank in Britain. We believe in giving our staff autonomy, with initiative and exceptional performance recognised through a variety of individual and team awards and incentives. All our employees have a tangible impact on the Group's core values, and we are looking for candidates who are enthusiastic, proactive and enjoy working in a fast paced environment. So join us as we strive to Grow, Sustain and Love the way we work.