Commercial & Institutional Financial Controller

Banking & Financial Services
Edinburgh
March 7, 2025
Permanent
Urgent

Job Description

Join us as a Commercial & Institutional Financial Controller

  • This key role will see you leading a team with responsibility for the delivery of end-to-end financial control activity
  • We’ll look to you to proactively establish and maintain strong working relationships with key customers and stakeholders, and the wider Finance team
  • As a key member of our team, you’ll enjoy extensive collaboration and can expect great visibility for you and your work

What you’ll do

As a Commercial & Institutional Financial Controller, you’ll ensure the integrity of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial information, including balance sheet, profit and loss account, internal and external reporting, and other supporting data.

You’ll comply with relevant policies and consider and escalate the adequacy and effectiveness of the business’s controls.

Through the course of your work, you’ll:

  • Help shape the strategy and operating model for financial control, with the overriding objective of establishing and maintaining trust and confidence of customers and stakeholders
  • Provide sound analytical reviews, challenges, and analysis to customers
  • Negotiate the delivery of day-to-day and ad-hoc outputs, and deal with non-delivery issues as and when they arise
  • Act as the key customer relationship manager between the business area and the offshore team
  • Initiate continuous improvement projects to automate and streamline financial control activities

The skills you’ll need

To succeed in this role, you’ll bring extensive post qualification experience in a finance environment, preferably within the financial services industry. You’ll have experience of working at a senior management level, with multiple reporting lines across a global matrix environment.

We’ll also look to you to bring:

  • Experience of providing senior management with detailed financial information
  • The ability to identify, build and enhance key relationships and challenge as needed
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to clearly and succinctly articulate issues to senior management
  • The ability to deliver high quality outputs to tight deadlines

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