Description
Finance Business Partner X2, The Co-operative Bank, Manchester, 6 months
I have two Finance Business Partner roles based in Manchester working for The Co-operative Bank. You will join a remediation focused programme of work that is compliance Driven.
Qualified Accountant, Stakeholder Management, Analytical, Forecasting.
Background:
The risk and remediation programme is a project set up to look at the various compliance issues the bank faces. This is a high profile project in a fast paced environment and is central to the future plans of the Bank.
We are looking for a general all round Finance Business Partner Support who is willing to be hands on and use their own initiative.
Skills required:
- Excellent excel skills - large reconciliation of data sets, understanding pivots, advanced excel tools
- Strong analytical skills - Understanding, interpreting and reconciling data to ensure accuracy
- Good all round finance experience is required - to understand complex issues around charging interest, statement dates and impact of redressing customers
- Month end analysis, actual v forecast, balance sheet reconciliations
- Attention to detail - The successful candidate will also be involved in financial reconciliations for customer redress payments, in terms of both setting up the process and performing the reconciliation.
- Ability to prioritise and manage stakeholder expectations
- Build relationships with programme/project leadership team - ensure 2 way flow of information and challenge forecasts and model assumptions where necessary.
Tasks include:
- Accurate Forecast project costs, variance analysis
- Month-end processing and accruals/journals for project delivery costs
- Design, document and implement the reconciliation process relating to customer redress payments and suspense accounts for Packaged Accounts
- Purchase order requisitions and reconciliations
- Operational MI/forecasting and analysis of actual cost v plan
- Ad-hoc financial and non-financial requests
- Working with multiple senior stakeholders including Project Managers, Programme Managers, Head of Operations
Qualifications required
- Qualified Accountant
- Financial Services or Similar company exposure
- Analytical in nature
- Strong stakeholder management skills to engage with bank members,
If you wish to apply for the above position, please call me or email
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