Lead Manager

Are you passionate about making a difference and using your technical skills collaboratively to deliver real change? If so, we may have the role for you.

We are thrilled to announce an exciting opportunity for a Manager/ Lead Manager to join our Financial Modelling team on a 12 month fixed term contract. In this role, you'll help build and maintain the Society's Liquidity and Market Risk model suites. This is an exciting time to join the team as the Society embarks on an ambitious growth plan. Financial Modelling will be at the heart of enabling that growth by transforming the Finance modelling landscape. This is a hybrid role, with a minimum of one day per week onsite at our central Leeds office.

About the role:

• Design, develop and deliver new models, as well as model redevelopments, to support decision-making across the Society's Liquidity and Market Risk teams.
• Provide strong support and constructive challenge to Analysts and Senior Analysts during model development and review activity, ensuring that key development decisions are made appropriately and efficiently.
• Establish and maintain robust control and review frameworks across the model development lifecycle, providing greater assurance and reducing model risk.
• Demonstrate effective stakeholder management across Balance Sheet Management, Finance, Treasury and Commercial teams, ensuring strong understanding of the models and their application.
• Work closely with the Technical Lead Manager to support capability building, development and knowledge sharing within the team.
• This role may also include people leadership responsibilities, supporting the development, coaching and performance of team members.

About you:

With a proven track record in a similar role, what will you bring to the role?

• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate clearly, concisely and assertively with stakeholders at all levels of seniority.
• A genuine appetite for learning, with the curiosity and adaptability to quickly develop a strong understanding of the Society and its models.
• A collaborative mindset and a willingness to support, coach and develop more junior colleagues.
• Experience of coaching and guiding others.

The following are desirable and can be developed in role:

• Strong understanding of interest rate risk and liquidity risk, including the techniques used to model and mitigate these risks.
• Good knowledge of cash flows, mortgages, savings products and finance processes within a building society or bank, and how these can be modelled.
• Experience with data manipulation using SQL and strong Microsoft Excel skills (including VBA). Python knowledge is preferred but not essential.
• Experience using balance sheet management systems (e.g. BSM).

Our Head Office teams are known as Enabling Functions. They are open, innovative, collaborative and always focused on doing what's right. And they're here to support our colleagues by providing a range of high quality, head office services, including risk, HR, finance and marketing. Whatever team you join, you'll discover that it's a welcoming, supportive and inclusive place to be, with all the flexibility you need to make work a rewarding part of your life.

About Our Benefits:

Everyone's different. That's why we offer a wide range of benefits and rewards that we think you'll love whatever's important to you, and whatever stage of life you're at. Such as:

• Our pension scheme (where you can get up to 11% from us).
• On target bonus of 7% (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%).
• Access to brilliant health benefits.
• Life assurance at 6 times your salary.
• 25 days holiday (and the option to buy more).
• Cycle to work or an interest-free loan for an annual ticket.
• Wellbeing resources and tools.
• Retail and Leisure discounts.