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Finance Manager | Specialist UK Bank | Circa £80,000 total package | Permanent
A profitable, fast-growing UK specialist bank is looking for a qualified Finance Manager to join its finance team in Mayfair, London.
The bank holds a full UK banking licence and has built a multi-billion pound balance sheet in just a few years. It provides bespoke buy-to-let, bridging and semi-commercial property finance to property professionals, offers funding lines to non-bank lenders, and is funded by a straightforward retail savings franchise. Having reached profitability, the bank's focus is now on growing earnings and making the balance sheet work harder, and finance sits at the centre of that.
This is a broad, hands-on role for a true all-rounder. You'll work across statutory and management reporting, get close to both the lending and deposits sides of the business, and play a key part in building a reporting framework that is robust enough for a bank at this stage of growth.
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What you'll do
- Help design, govern and continually improve the bank's financial reporting framework across statutory and management reporting
- Support and drive the month end close, including journals, reconciliations, accruals and balance sheet review
- Produce monthly management accounts with clear commentary on performance across the loan book, funding lines and retail deposits
- Support the preparation of the annual statutory financial statements and act as a key point of contact for the external auditors
- Strengthen controls, processes and documentation so reporting is accurate, timely and audit ready
- Work closely with Treasury, Risk, Credit and Regulatory Reporting to keep numbers consistent across the business
- Support analysis and projects as the bank continues to scale
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What you'll bring
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or equivalent), ideally trained within a top 10 accountancy firm
- An audit background, ideally with banking or financial services clients
- Around two years' experience in industry since leaving practice, ideally within a bank or lender
- Experience across both lending and deposit products, with a clear understanding of how they flow through the P&L and balance sheet
- A strong all-round grounding in statutory and management accounting
- A track record of improving reporting processes, controls or governance
- Confidence explaining financial performance to non-finance stakeholders
- The appetite to take ownership in a growing finance function
The package
- Circa £80,000 total compensation
- Permanent, full time
- Four days per week in the Mayfair office, one day from home
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