Description

Senior Finance Manager - Leading UK Bank

£90,000 - £100,000 + bonus + benefits

We are partnering with a leading UK banking group to recruit a Senior Finance Manager. This newly created role will take ownership of the financial oversight of a major ongoing project. You'll work closely with senior leadership, the wider finance function, and key regulatory stakeholders to ensure financial integrity and robust reporting. You'll business partner at a senior level to produce key insights and trends from large quantities of data, and look to automate processes. It's a high-visibility position with CFO exposure, and the opportunity to shape finance processes and frameworks in a business undergoing significant change.

The Opportunity

Role: Senior Finance Manager

Location: London (occasional travel to Yorkshire)

Salary: £90,000 - £100,000 + discretionary bonus + benefits

Working model: Hybrid - 2/3 days in office per week

About the Organisation

Our client is a well-established UK banking group with a strong reputation for integrity, customer focus, and responsible lending. Operating across multiple specialist divisions, the bank combines commercial agility with the scale and stability of a regulated financial institution. You'll be joining a collaborative, values-led environment where finance plays a critical role in driving both customer and regulatory outcomes. Leading a small team of two, you'll report into the Division Finance Director, with strong C-suite exposure.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Control, Reporting & Modelling

• Lead financial provision modelling and design of redress calculations for customer remediation programmes.
• Oversee audit and assurance processes, ensuring all financial and regulatory requirements are met.
• Manage reconciliations of payments and related tax transactions.
• Deliver accurate, timely financial reporting to senior management, regulators, and audit partners.
• Own budgeting and forecasting cycles, ensuring clarity around variances and financial impacts.

Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Act as the Finance lead for a large-scale ongoing project, engaging confidently with senior stakeholders.
• Build and maintain strong relationships across Finance, FP&A, Customer Resolutions, and Risk.
• Lead, develop, and motivate a small, high-performing team, fostering a culture of accountability and collaboration.
• Partner with Risk, Legal, and Compliance teams to support regulatory engagement and responses. Develop, document, and embed redress calculation methodologies aligned with programme and regulatory needs.
• Collaborate with audit and assurance partners to validate assumptions and ensure transparency.

Your Profile

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA).
• Strong background in financial control, commercial finance, or finance leadership within financial services.
• Proven ability to manage complex finance projects in regulated environments.
• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail; comfortable interpreting large data sets.
• Strong communicator and influencer, able to operate effectively at senior level.
• Adaptable, commercially aware, and comfortable leading through change.
• Experience in remediation, financial modelling, or regulatory reporting advantageous.

What's on Offer

• Competitive salary £90,000 - £100,000.
• Discretionary annual bonus.
• Matched pension scheme.
• Private medical and dental cover.
• Hybrid working (3-4 days in office, London or Doncaster).
• High-profile role with exposure to executive leadership and regulatory stakeholders.
• Opportunity to shape financial processes and governance within a respected UK banking group.