Vida Bank Limited
Head of CEO Office
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About Us
Vida Bank provides competitive savings products and specialist mortgage solutions. Our mortgage business supports both Buy to Let and residential borrowers who find themselves underserved elsewhere.
Our business model and strategy are underpinned by our core purpose to ‘Help More People Find a Place to Call Home’.
As a fully regulated UK-based bank with ambitious growth aspirations, we recognise the importance of a strong culture and actively embed behaviours that support it.
We are proud to be a:
- Best Companies Top 75 mid-sized company to work for in the UK
- Top 25 financial services company to work for in the UK
- Strong advocate for diversity, including achieving 50% female representation across senior management roles through our commitment to the Women in Finance Charter.
Our Culture
We have built a culture founded on care, which sits at the heart of our Vida Values. By joining Vida, you’ll experience:
- A collaborative and inclusive environment
- Empowerment to take ownership and drive delivery
- Alignment with our core values: visionary, inclusive, dynamic and authentic
Role Overview
We are looking for a highly capable and commercially astute Head of CEO Office to work closely with our CEO in a pivotal, high-impact role.
This role will act as the central coordination point for executive activity, ensuring:
- The CEO Office operates effectively
- Strategic priorities translate into clear action across the bank
Reporting directly to the CEO, this position enables high-quality decision-making through:
- Exceptional analysis
- Communication
- Executive insight
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Hybrid role:
- Potentially home-based, depending on location
- Regular travel to London and Newcastle
Key responsibilities will include strong financial acumen, ideally from a financial services background, with the ability to:
- Interpret complex data
- Develop executive materials, including:
- Board packs
- ALCO papers
- Business performance scorecards
- Transform insights into concise and impactful deliverables
Key Responsibilities
- Support the CEO in delivering:
- Strategic priorities
- Operational priorities
- Governance objectives
- Manage and coordinate the effective operation of the CEO Office
- Produce high-quality:
- Board papers
- ExCo materials
- ALCO packs
- Executive briefings
- Translate complex financial, operational and strategic data into clear and actionable insight
- Support:
- Strategic planning
- Business performance reviews
- Executive decision-making
- Develop and maintain:
- Business scorecards
- Performance reporting
- Track delivery of operational strategy to ensure strong follow-through across the bank
- Coordinate Executive Committee activities to enhance governance effectiveness
- Challenge and continually improve the quality, clarity, and impact of executive materials
- Build strong, credible relationships with:
- Senior stakeholders
- External partners
- Support the CEO's preparation for:
- Board meetings
- Investor engagement
- Regulatory engagement
Requirements
- Experience in financial services including:
- Banking
- Lending
- Regulated environments
- Background in:
- Consulting
- Strategy
- Executive office operations
- Business management
- Proven experience producing:
- Board-level materials
- Executive materials
- Strong ability to:
- Interpret financial data
- Synthesise insights
- Influence decision-making
- Experience with:
- Creating ALCO packs
- Performance scorecards
- Financial reporting
- Advanced proficiency in:
- PowerPoint
- Excel
- Exceptional:
- Written communication skills
- Presentation skills
- Ability to:
- Simplify complexity
- Distil key insights
- Strong:
- Stakeholder management skills
- Executive presence
- High levels of:
- Organisation
- Attention to detail
- Delivery discipline
- Comfortable navigating a:
- Fast-paced, executive environment
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Qualifications
Preferred:
- Qualified accountant with recognition from:
- ACA
- ACCA
- CIMA
- Degree in:
- Finance
- Economics
- Mathematics
- Related numerate disciplines
Our Values
Our Vida Values shape our everyday work and collaboration:
- Visionary – We innovate and push boundaries
- Inclusive – We recognise and embrace diversity
- Dynamic – We act with pace and challenge complexity
- Authentic – We commit to honesty, transparency and genuine intent
Benefits
We offer a centred benefits package to optimise:
- Professional wellbeing
- Personal wellbeing
Phase details will be shared during the recruitment process.
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