Finance Ledger & Consolidation Development Lead

Join us as a Finance Ledger & Consolidation Development Lead

• In this role, you'll support our delivery of end to end financial control activity
• Manage and lead the team responsible for the development of the bank's consolidation and external disclosure reporting application
• We'll look to you to proactively establish and maintain strong working relationships with key customers and stakeholders across Finance, as well as our Oracle Cloud product partners
• Hone your financial control expertise and enjoy a collaborative and supportive culture

As a Finance Ledger & Consolidation Development Lead, you'll be managing and implementing a wide range of data and system development deliverables, from standard BAU disclosure changes and accounting standard and regulatory driven changes such as IFRS18, to Finance and bank wide strategic programmes of work like the Risk & Finance Data Transformation programme and its external financial reporting automation multi-year workstream.

Through the course of your work, you'll:

• Assist in establishing, documenting and following operating procedures which include controls to meet policy requirements
• Act as a key partner, proactively contributing to decision making on complex or specialist issues, demonstrating judgement and a thorough understanding of the business
• Review business proposals and projects to make sure that all accounting considerations are captured and implemented
• Lead a global team to provide and manage vital development and data support in the use of Oracle FCCS, the bank's statutory and regulatory legal entity reporting system, to meet external reporting requirements
• Manage and deliver data and system solutions change executed within the appropriate governance framework to maintain data integrity and data quality standards throughout the change process, through effective engagement with key stakeholders

To succeed in this role, you'll bring previous financial control experience, preferably gained in a global financial services environment and have experience in building and maintaining strong working relationships with a variety of stakeholders in a changing environment. You'll also have an understanding of data and reporting tools used to provide effective solutions to complex requests and problems, such as Oracle Cloud, SmartView or JIRA. Holding a professional accounting qualification or Master Data or Metadata Management certification is beneficial but not essential.

We'll also look to you to bring:

• Up to date knowledge of accounting standards
• Demonstrable commitment to continuous improvement activities
• The ability to collaborate and build strong working relationships with a variety of key stakeholders and customers across the bank and geographical locations to influence and challenge as required
• Experience in a system and data development background with strong knowledge of finance systems and data, in particular Oracle Cloud EPM products