Senior FP&A Lead

Senior FP&A Lead (Planning, Performance and Cost)

📍 Birmingham/Hybrid | Permanent

We are seeking a highly capable Senior FP&A Lead to play a pivotal consolidating and integrating role within our Financial Planning & Analysis function.

Sitting alongside two Senior Finance Business Partners and reporting to the Head of FP&A, you will ensure the integrity, cadence, and presentation of the Bank’s financial planning, performance reporting, and cost management outputs for internal stakeholders, including Executive and Board audiences.

This role brings together inputs across the Bank into a single, coherent financial picture—across the short, medium, and long term—and ensures it is delivered with the clarity, governance, and consistency expected of a regulated financial institution.

You will be central to the delivery of the planning and performance cycle, the cost management framework, model governance, and the production discipline that turns numbers into insight.

### What You’ll Be Doing

As our Senior FP&A Lead, you will:

• Bring together the Bank’s financial story for stakeholders (short, medium, and long term), ensuring clarity, accuracy, and meaningful insight;
• Coordinate the planning and forecasting cycle;
• Consolidate financial data across the organization with governance, consistency, and audit-readiness;
• Lead monthly performance reporting, transforming data into meaningful insights to support Executive and Board decision-making;
• Partner on cost management and profitability, helping budget holders interpret their data, driving cost discipline, and supporting product and segment profitability views;
• Champion model governance and data integrity, ensuring alignment with a single trusted financial standpoint;
• Drive continuous improvement by refining processes, templates, and tools for stronger, sharper, and more agile FP&A.