Are you a qualified finance professional with a passion for leading high-performing teams and driving excellence in financial control? We’re looking for a dynamic and inclusive leader to join our Finance team and take ownership of our financial accounting processes, ensuring the integrity of our general ledger and delivering accurate, timely product accounting across all divisions.
What You’ll Be Doing
As Finance Manager, you’ll lead a talented team of Accountants and Assistant Accountants, fostering a culture of collaboration, development, and continuous improvement. You’ll be responsible for:
- Managing and mentoring your team to deliver high-quality financial information and reconciliations.
- Overseeing product accounting and reporting for all divisions, ensuring compliance with accounting standards.
- Building strong relationships across Finance, Operations, and other key internal stakeholders.
- Driving process improvements, automation initiatives, and supporting change programmes.
- Ensuring robust documentation and audit trails for all financial control activities.
- Supporting system and product implementations, including user acceptance testing (UAT).
- Maintaining performance KPIs and contributing to strategic projects.
What You’ll Bring
We’re looking for someone who combines technical expertise with strong leadership and communication skills. You’ll have:
- ACCA, ACA or CIMA qualification with at least 5 years’ post-qualification experience.
- Proven success in UK Financial Services, ideally within a Financial Control environment.
- Strong general ledger and reconciliation experience.
- Solid understanding of IFRS and statutory reporting principles.
- A track record of delivering process improvements and automation.
- Advanced Excel skills and confidence using MS Office.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving and stakeholder management skills.
Why Join Us?
We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. You’ll be part of a supportive team that values innovation, integrity, and continuous learning. We offer:
- A collaborative and flexible working environment.
- Opportunities for professional development and career progression.
- A competitive salary and benefits package.
- A chance to make a real impact in a regulated, purpose-driven organisation.
Everyone is different. Everyone is valued
As part of our vision to become the most trusted specialist lender in the UK, we’ve been helping customers and businesses fulfil their ambitions since 1952. In that time, we’ve learned that we’re more than the sum of our parts. We’re a strong Group because of our people and our strengths; specialist, expert, ambitious and also diverse. All of our people are different and this is something we celebrate.
Every one of our employees brings unique talent, ability and perspective to their role.
That’s why Secure Trust Bank Group nurtures differences. We understand that we perform better because we’re not cast from the same mould. We actively embrace and support diversity, work with leading industry bodies and promote initiatives that reinforce our philosophy of giving you the freedom to be who you are.
We’re an award-winning bank providing savings accounts and lending services to over one million customers. We’re Secure Trust Bank Group. We embrace difference.