Capital and Financial Planning Lead (12mth FTC) bei ClearBank

Capital and Financial Planning Lead (12mth FTC)

About you

You’ll be joining the Commercial Finance team as a Capital and Financial Planning Lead. You’ll be a part of a fast-growing business that is challenging the market and doing things differently.

Your Mission:

As Capital and Financial Planning Lead covering a maternity leave working a 12- month fixed term contract, you’ll be working with senior leaders across all departments of the Bank as well as the Finance team to help to deliver on the capital strategy of the bank. The team are responsible for the compilation of annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and management reporting.

Responsibilities:

• Leading on and delivering the annual capital macroeconomic stress testing cycle for the Group and UK

• Embedding and supporting the EU stress test

• Accountable for proactive capital planning, reporting and forecasting on a regular basis

• Managing of capital planning across new corporate structure, liaising with finance, treasury, risk and wider business stakeholders to ensure efficient communication flow and understanding of reporting requirements

• Inputting into compilation of key regulatory documents (e.g. ICAAP, ILAAP, Solvent Wind down plan, Recovery plan)

• Producing board level presentations

• Owning and leading the end-to-end forecasting, budget and 5-year planning process

• Building partnerships and maintaining strong relationships with the Finance, Regulatory, Treasury and Risk teams as well as executive committee

• Managing investor Support

• Inputting into FP&A optimisation - working with the Finance Change team to implement new systems and tools to automate and streamline planning process

What we are looking for:

• Substantial experience as a qualified accountant

• Experience of banking or financial services environment with a good understanding of the UK and European regulation and the PRA/FCA regulatory framework

• Capital planning and experience of coordinating a Stress testing cycle embedding the results into risk appetite

• Demonstrable previous experience in an FP&A planning role, stress testing, and financial modelling, capital management

• Someone who is motivated, proactive and a self-starter who wants to make a difference

• A willingness to improve processes and procedures with excellent attention to detail

• Resilience with the ability to deliver under pressure and to tight deadlines

• The ability to work on your own as well as liaise with stakeholders across the business at all levels

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

If this sounds like you, please apply.

Regretfully, we are not able to sponsor applicants for immigration purposes at the current time.

A little bit more about us! 

ClearBank is Where You Can belong: 

At ClearBank we think about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) a lot. Not because we think we should. But because we know we should – how else can we build a happy workforce and be successful as a business. We’re committed to making sure our teams reflect society. And we put energy and effort into making this a place where everyone feels at home, where they’re given the trust and encouragement to do their very best work. Here are some of the things we’re most proud of: 

• 42% of our senior management roles are held by women 

• Our enhanced family leave policies

• Launching our partnership with Code First Girls 

• Increasing awareness of neurodiversity in the workplace through our partnership with the Inclusive Group 

Our hiring process and what you can expect:

Application: a member of our talent acquisition team will review your application against the key requirements for the role and let you know within two weeks whether you’re moving forward to the next stage; 

Screening: You’ll spend 30-45 minutes speaking to one of our recruiters learning more about the role and ClearBank, and we’ll get it know more about you, your experience and how your skills align with the role (this will be via phone or Teams video call). You can expect to hear back from us within seven days following this meeting (if things are taking longer than expected, we’ll let you know that too); 

First Interview: You’ll spend one hour with a member of our hiring team focusing on your skills, competencies and your ways of working at the same time we’ll give you time to ask more questions about the role, the team and learn more about the ClearBank culture. This will be via Teams.  

Second Interview: This will be a competency-based interview with one or more members of our team.

Final Stage: You will have a final meeting with the Head of Department. This will be around 45-60 minutes.  

Offer: Congratulations! Get ready to transform banking forever! 

Our commitment to you as a candidate: 

We will always try our best to get back to you within seven days of your interview whether you’ve been successful or not and provide you with feedback. Sometimes things take a little longer, so we may not have a decision to share but we will get it touch to let you know we need a little more time.  

We’re unable to provide specific individual feedback at the application or screening stage but know that your application was reviewed and considered carefully.  

We wish you the best of luck with your application and maybe we’ll be celebrating your new role at ClearBank soon!  

Equal Opportunities

ClearBank is committed to ensuring equal opportunities throughout every stage of the recruitment process. ClearBank recognises that diversity is vital to the long-term success of the business in the communities and markets in which it operates. ClearBank is also a firm believer that an inclusive culture fosters greater employee engagement and collaboration. 

ClearBank strives for diversity and inclusion of all forms, including (but not limited to): gender, age, educational and professional background, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief and sexual orientation. 

As part of the Company’s commitment to equal employment opportunity, we provide reasonable adjustments, to candidates during the recruitment process, including to individuals with disabilities. We want to create a safe space that welcomes everyone so please let us know how we can accommodate you. In case you have any accessibility requirements you can share that with our Talent Acquisition team prior to your interview stage, if applicable. 

The legal bit

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