Finance Business Intelligence Manager - NatWest Group

Join us as a Finance Business Intelligence Manager

In this role you'll provide financial insight and decision support through the provision of commercial and financial MI, ensuring compliance with the bank's governance framework

You'll support with the provision of timely, reliable, and insightful financial support that will drive senior and executive financial and commercial discussions

Through professional collaboration across the function, you'll raise your profile and build your network while honing your business management capabilities

You'll attend the office in person a minimum of two days per week, with the rest of your time working from home

What you'll do

We'll look to you to develop and maintain professional, effective relationships with customers, stakeholders, and colleagues at all levels, while delivering reports such as financials, hierarchy, budgeting, and forecasting, and providing commentary explaining data movements and the outlook for future periods.

You'll also ensure consistency in design, approach, and principles of reporting and optimisation of the existing reporting processes, creating and maintaining the relevant process documentation.

Key aspects of your role will include

Actively providing value-adding expert services, including advice across monthly actuals, budgeting, forecasting, and performance monitoring

Working with finance partners or business stakeholders to draw out actionable insights

Regularly managing the end-to-end delivery of requested financial processes and analysis, taking responsibility for overall outputs and insights

Actively working with internal customers and business partners to identify opportunities for process efficiencies through the production and analysis of available MI

Providing robust analytical support and commercial insight to the business

The skills you'll need

To be successful in this role, you'll need to hold a professional accountancy qualification, or at least have comparable and relevant work experience history. You'll also benefit from an analytical and enquiring nature and skillset, with good problem-solving skills, and technical knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, and modelling.

We'll also expect you to

Be data-driven, able to translate complex financial and operational data into clear insights that support business decisions

Have strong analytical skills and be highly proficient in analysing large and complex datasets, identifying trends, drivers, anomalies, and opportunities for improvement

Be control- and governance-focused, maintaining strong financial controls, data integrity, and auditability while ensuring compliance with internal policies and regulatory requirements

Have a process excellence mindset, focused on leading, designing, standardising, and continuously improving finance processes to enhance efficiency, control, and scalability

Be able to build strong relationships across Finance, Technology, and business teams, translating technical concepts into business outcomes

Demonstrate attention to detail with a strategic perspective, balancing detailed analysis and governance requirements with the ability to see the broader business implications