Senior Finance Manager - Financial & Regulatory Reporting - Banking

A leading international bank is seeking a qualified Senior Finance Manager to support the Head of Finance across its London operations.

This is a broad, hands-on banking finance role covering financial and management reporting, regulatory reporting, risk reporting, taxation, reconciliations, controls and finance systems. The successful candidate will act as a senior member of the Finance team, ensuring reporting is completed accurately and on time while supporting process improvement and finance-related projects.

Key responsibilities

• Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual management reporting for Head Office
• Produce risk asset reporting and perform associated data-quality checks
• Support regulatory reporting and testing of regulatory-reporting system changes
• Complete daily market-risk and liquidity-risk reporting
• Prepare quarterly VAT returns and annual corporation tax returns
• Support HMRC reporting requirements
• Oversee and check purchase-ledger activity
• Complete and review Nostro reconciliations
• Maintain the integrity of finance management information systems
• Perform UAT for finance and regulatory-reporting system enhancements
• Support the annual budgeting process
• Complete internal control attestations, including RCSA and RRSA
• Maintain and reconcile the fixed-asset register
• Support audit confirmations and external audit requirements
• Maintain finance procedures and disaster-recovery documentation
• Identify and implement improvements to finance processes, controls and reporting
• Provide cover for other members of the Finance team and support ad hoc projects

Requirements

• Qualified accountant, such as ACA, ACCA or CIMA
• At least five years' experience within a Finance department
• Strong banking or financial-services experience
• Experience in financial, management or regulatory reporting
• Knowledge of liquidity, market-risk or risk-asset reporting
• Experience of financial controls, reconciliations and taxation
• Strong Excel and Microsoft Office skills
• High attention to detail and a methodical, analytical approach
• Comfortable working across a broad range of hands-on finance responsibilities
• Able to support and deputise for the Head of Finance when required
• Experience with regulatory-reporting systems, UAT, Regnology or Access would be advantageous.