Head of Cost Analytics & Reporting

Please note, this role can be based in our Manchester or London office.

Let us tell you a bit about the opportunity:

This is your opportunity to shape how a leading bank understands, manages and delivers against its cost ambitions. As Head of Cost Analytics & Reporting, you’ll take on a high-profile senior finance role, leading cost reporting, forecasting, budgeting and allocation modelling across our products and business areas. You’ll own the month-end cost position, deliver clear insight for ExCo and help turn complex financial information into confident decisions that support our cost targets and savings initiatives.

Working closely with ExCo and ExCo-1 stakeholders, you’ll be a trusted partner to leaders across our business lines including Motor, Savings, Business Finance, Property and Partner Lending as well as support functions such as Finance and Risk. By combining high-quality financial insight with clear reporting and constructive challenge, you’ll make complex information easy to understand and enable informed cost and investment decisions.

This is an opportunity to bring together strategic business partnering, advanced Excel expertise and excellent organisation in a role with real visibility and influence. You’ll create structure, accuracy and momentum across core finance cycles, build trusted relationships at the highest levels and confidently challenge thinking to help the organisation achieve better outcomes.

What will your day look like?

• Lead month-end cost reporting, delivering accurate, timely insight and clear reporting for ExCo.
• Own budgeting, forecasting and cost allocation modelling across products and business areas.
• Partner with ExCo and senior leaders, translating complex financial information into clear commercial insight and constructive challenge.
• Support the delivery of cost targets and savings initiatives by modelling proposals, managing timelines and identifying opportunities.
• Develop robust business cases, Excel models and reporting with transparent assumptions, strong controls and measurable benefits.
• Contribute to the leadership of Cost & Transformation and wider Finance, building capability, navigating ambiguity and deputising when required.
  
  

What do we expect from you?

• A qualified accountant, or an experienced senior finance professional with a strong background in business partnering, FP&A, commercial finance or cost leadership.
• An established finance leader with experience in a complex organisation, ideally within regulated financial services.
• A credible business partner who can influence senior leaders, communicate complex financial information clearly and provide constructive challenge.
• Strong expertise in cost management, month-end reporting, budgeting, forecasting, cost allocation and executive-level reporting.
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills, with a focus on robust assumptions, effective controls and accurate outputs.
• An inclusive and collaborative leader who brings structure through ambiguity, develops capability and delivers at pace across competing priorities.
  
  

What can you expect from us?

• A friendly and flexible culture, the same as how we work with our customers. Hybrid working model – 3 days a week in the office
• A growing organisation that means there’s lots of opportunities to progress
• A drive for continuous improvement, which you will be empowered to get behind from day one.
• And of course, you will be rewarded competitively, with a good range of core benefits and bonus potential.