What is the opportunity?
This is a unique opportunity to step into a leadership role. As a manager of the UK Divisional Centre FC team, you'll lead an experienced team through critical processes like month end close and Finrep reporting, while also playing a key role in guiding business and funding decisions.
Through close collaboration with the Treasury team you'll gain first-hand exposure to the funding of UK Plc providing an insight into liquidity management, capital structure, and strategic funding decisions.
You'll be part of a highly collaborative Retail UK finance team with a strong culture of peer support and will gain an opportunity to cross train and experience other areas within the team. This opportunity offers the chance to broaden your skillset across multiple areas of financial control within a plc and regulated bank
In this role, you will:
- Lead the team in successful month end close, managing dependencies across teams and ensuring safe and timely delivery of close process.
- Review key reconciliations, ensure all entries are in line with accounting standards and business logic and review TB before month end close.
- Manage statutory and regulatory reporting processes under a strong control framework and within set timelines
- Work closely with key partners in UK Treasury and present financial results, highlight variances, and explain key movements in P&L and balance sheet.
- Present clear and concise information to external auditors and act as an SME for queries.
What will make you stand out?
Fully qualified accountant with at least 5 years PQE
Experience in Financial Control
Technical accounting acumen, with the ability to apply expertise in a timely manner.
Strong partner management skills.
Essential Qualifications
There are no minimum educational requirements for this role.
More about the team
Bank of Ireland Group's operations in the UK are conducted primarily through Bank of Ireland (UK) plc, which is a PRA and FCA regulated subsidiary.
The BOI UK plc Financial Control team is responsible for the controlling and reporting on BOI UK plc's financial position and performance. The team prepares the statutory accounts and regulatory returns associated with a plc and regulated entity. The team also provides information to internal partners to support business decision making.
Financial Control work closely with partners across the Group and third parties to ensure that there is a continued focus on delivering a culture of service excellence, developing our people and supporting the achievement of the Group's strategic priorities. Financial Control takes lead responsibility in ensuring that the control environment around accounting processes is robust and that reporting delivery is timely and to high standards of accuracy.
This is a hybrid role, based primarily at the Belfast office. We typically ask colleagues to spend a minimum of 8 days per month working in-person to support collaboration and connection. Specific arrangements will be confirmed by your recruiter to ensure they meet the needs of the role and team.
Why work with us?
The Bank of Ireland company culture prioritises work-life balance with an opportunity for flexible working, along with 23 days annual leave and excellent pension contributions. Family can mean different things to different people; we offer 6 months paid maternity leave, an innovative fertility and surrogacy policy and working parent supports.
Your wellbeing is important to us; we have an employee assistance program, WebDoctor and financial wellbeing coaches available. We also encourage and support staff to pursue educational and professional qualifications to grow and enhance your career!
We're on a continuous journey to build an inclusive and diverse workplace. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, lived experience, abilities and perspectives. We provide reasonable accommodations at every stage of our recruitment process for disabilities, neurodivergence or medical conditions. If you require an accommodation please complete this form and one of our recruitment team members will be in touch via email.
Any information provided will be treated as confidential within the recruitment team and used only for the purpose of determining and providing appropriate accommodations for the application and recruitment process.
Where Agency assistance is required Bank of Ireland Recruitment Team will engage directly with suppliers. Unsolicited CVs / profiles supplied to Bank of Ireland by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.
