Senior Finance Manager CGEMJP00351505

Role purpose / summary

A key role within the CTO COO team, the Senior Finance Manager will lead all financial management activities for the Enterprise Infrastructure area - across an annual P&L budget of ~$1bn+ USD spanning ~18 countries.

Enterprise Infrastructure sits at the heart of the client's Chief Technology Office (CTO) - operating, maintaining & transforming the technology infrastructure used by the rest of the bank to run applications & services (servers, storage, databases, mainframe, middleware, internal cloud & automation technologies amongst others).

In this role, you will:

• Lead all financial management activities for Enterprise Infrastructure - across both expenses & internal customer charges:
• Annual planning / budget / target setting process
• Monthly financial forecasting to a high level of accuracy
• Monthly tracking of actuals vs. forecast vs. target - investigating, explaining & resolving variances
• Monthly management reporting
• Accrual management
• Cost optimisation planning & tracking
• Collaborate & engage with a range of stakeholders - Managing Director & Executive Committee, COO, CTO CFO, Local Financial Controllers / Operations, Cost Management & Procurement amongst others.
• Continuously improve COO processes.

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Finance business partnering (or similar) experience.
• Experience managing financials across multiple countries.
• Comfortable working independently & proactively to solve problems.
• Proficiency managing & reporting on large data sets.
• Proficiency with financial analysis tools (Excel a must-have, Apptio IT Planning experience or similar desired)
• Collaborative, engaging, credible and methodical; being able to bring the numbers to life (e.g., presenting).
• Experience of building and maintaining strong relationships with senior stakeholders (all levels of seniority).
• Experience within Financial Services and/or Technology functions (nice to have).