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Location

Chatham, Kent | United Kingdom

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Job description

Location: Bradford, Chatham, Petersfield or London

Working Pattern: Our working style is hybrid, but we recognise the importance of

collaborative working with our colleagues often 2 days per week in one of our offices

Benefits: Discretionary annual bonus, 25 days holiday up to 30 days (depending on service), pension scheme with matched company contributions up to 10%, 1 paid day to ‘give back’

Don’t hesitate to apply for a role even if you don’t meet all the criteria; your unique strengths and eagerness to learn can be just as valuable.]

You and Your Team:

As a Senior Finance Analyst you will support the Senior Finance Business Partner in guiding the relevant business areas and making strategic decisions, as well as ensuring robust strategic planning is in place and driving the business to deliver against these plans. In this role, you will develop to become an expert in multiple products.

In your day-to-day role, as a Senior Finance Analyst, you will:

• Provide decision analysis for strategic, financial and commercial decisions for the relevant products, using the NPV models and other tools to advise the business on the impacts of decisions – helping to ensure high quality decisions are made.
• Seek to drive continuous improvement of processes and procedures.
• Month end activity, including journal posting, cost reporting and supporting the wider team with cost partnering conversations with SLT.
• Analyse and summarise performance and key drivers for each of the relevant products at month end.
• Provide ad-hoc support and analysis for the business areas or other areas of Finance, whilst also effectively identifying when a request should be owned by another team
• Build and maintain models and other tools (predominantly Microsoft Excel).
• Support Model Monitoring Forum inputs and discussion, for NPV and other models.
• Exercise strong control practices and continuously look for ways to improve the control environment, including robust documentation of planning assumptions, version control of files and identifying and flagging risks.
• Collaborate with both internal and external audit to provide information where necessary

What will make you stand out?

• Very high level of attention to detail (critical)
• Ability & drive to set up processes that allow for quick turnaround whilst maintaining accuracy.
• Ability to adapt and work under pressure in order to meet tight deadlines.
• Self-motivated, takes ownership and proactively tracks actions through to resolution
• Strong organisational skills
• Time management skills, effective prioritisation of tasks.
• Experience in Finance role
• Part qualified or fully qualified chartered accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) preferred
• Previous experience of working in financial services preferred

Our average process takes up to 4 weeks but we will always work around your availability. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team throughout the process.

As this role involves working within a regulated environment any offer will be subject to satisfactory background checks including criminal record check, credit check, fraud check and employment references.

Your working life: If you prefer to work part-time, we'll make this happen whenever we can - whether this is to help you meet other commitments or strike a great work-life balance. A fear of losing your current working flexibility shouldn't hinder you from applying for new opportunities, which is why we aim to match your existing flexible working arrangements where possible.

Why work for us?

Back in 1880, our founder, JK Waddilove started to provide factory workers in Bradford, with essentials, when others wouldn’t, like coal and clothing.

Times have changed since then, society has moved on, and our market and customer needs have evolved. What has not changed though, is our long-established desire to help put people on a path to a better everyday life.

Today we have stayed true to our purpose, just as we’ve always done, in our communities, for our customers, in an evolving and changing world.

It’s why we are here, it’s how we will stay, and asVanquis Banking Group , we can look to the future, and look back at our past with pride.

At Vanquis Banking Group we believe in looking after our colleagues, so we do our best to create a rewarding, engaging, and supportive work environment across our various divisions.

We let our colleagues know we appreciate their hard work by offering competitivesalaries, benefits, and a Group wide recognition scheme. All colleagues are eligible to join a pension scheme, and, after six months’ service, youcan join our ‘Save as you Earn’ and 'Buy as you Earn' schemes.

We offer a range of training and development opportunities to help each of our colleaguesmaximise their potential, whatever their role. From your first day working with us, we’ll help you settle into your new role and are happyto talk to you about your career aspirations.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Here at Vanquis Banking Group, we embrace everyone’s unique strengths and identities to be themselves at work. Regardless of how you identify yourself, your sexual orientation, martial or civil partner status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national background, faith, disability, or age – your experiences and background help enrich our teams, and most importantly help support our customers in the best way possible. At the end of the day, its our people that help us to fulfil the reason why we’re here in the first place: to help put people on a path to a better everyday life.

If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it’s a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we’re available to help. You can contact us [email protected]

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