Join us as an Investment Finance Business Partner, Digital X & Functions

• Build strong relationships and influence a range of senior business stakeholders as you advance your career in this high profile partnering role
• You’ll provide commercial and financial insights and analysis to help influence key business decisions
• You’ll be reviewing and providing input for plans, forecasts and scenario modelling for investments 
• We offer a hybrid way of working where you’ll be based in our Edinburgh office two days a week, with the rest of your time working from home

What you'll do

The Investment Finance team looks after the investment spend across the bank. In this key partnering role, you’ll help to drive value for the business and assist leadership teams to make key investment decisions by providing insight and commercial knowledge, whilst driving benefits and cost savings. This role will provide the opportunity for you to develop your finance partnering experience as you help to manage the financial decisions in the ‘change the bank’ arena.

You’ll also be:

• Partnering senior leaders in the delivery of the bank’s investment strategy and influencing spend and investment priorities, by understanding their business and bringing a strong commercial acumen
• Understanding and challenging financial performance, providing relevant and meaningful insight to the business including internal and external MI
• Collaborating with other Finance teams to provide specific financial plans, forecasts and analysis
• Using a data-led approach to solve strategic problems and contributing towards automation and simplification of key Finance-wide services
• Reviewing and challenging to ensure the optimum use of resources presented in investment decisions

The skills you'll need

To succeed in this role, you’ll be a qualified chartered accountant with excellent stakeholder management skills and the confidence to build influential relationships founded on trust. Along with planning and organisation capabilities, you’ll be able to deal with ambiguity, uncertainty and risk and work at pace in a demanding, fast-paced environment.

You’ll also demonstrate:

• Good data analysis and modelling skills
• The ability to communicate complex financial information in a concise and non-technical manner
• Strategic awareness and the ability to apply business knowledge, expertise and challenge to support the business