Join us as a Finance Business Intelligence Analyst
- You’ll work in the Planning & Performance team within Finance which is our centre of excellence for strategic planning, forecasting and performance management
- You’ll be supporting and challenging our franchises to drive sustainable and purpose-led value for the bank’s broad stakeholder groups providing insight and guidance to the bank’s executive team
- You’ll work in a broad and diverse high performing team, anticipating and adapting to new challenges and opportunities, ensuring that we continue to help people, families and businesses to thrive
As a Finance Business Intelligence Analyst, you’ll play a supporting role in the planning of core strategic and financial processes such as the annual budget, monthly forecasting, quarterly external reporting and other external investor requirements.
You’ll be working with customers and strategic finance partners to identify and define opportunities for income improvement, cost efficiencies and effective deployment of balance sheet and capital across our franchises and divisions.
Through the course of your work you’ll be:
- Influencing cost management decisions through your commercial and financial expertise
- Creating forecasts and budgets and working with others to align them with business aspirations
- Providing business reports along with commentary to explain data movements together with the outlook for future periods.
- Working with technology partners to deliver information and simplification of financial models and management dashboards
- Developing financial planning models that delivery timely, robust, action-oriented outputs that can drive commercial discussions and decisions.
To be successful in this role, you’ll need strong financial, analytical and logical skills together with good problem solving skills. You’ll need a degree level qualification, ideally within Accounting & Finance or be studying for a CIMA, CA, ACCA, or CFA qualification with evidence of application in a business environment.
Additionally, you’ll need:
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
- A demonstrable ability to work well with teams in different locations and in different departments
- Strong process and systems skills, with an understanding of how to improve existing systems and challenge existing processes
- Practical experience of forecasting and budgeting as well as both technical and non-technical communication of findings