What is the opportunity?
This role offers the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues across Group Finance, UK Treasury and UK Risk to deliver the regulatory reporting requirements for the UK. The role holder will gain an overall understanding of the UK business and develop knowledge of the UK regulatory reporting regime set by BOE, PRA and FCA.
Working at Bank of Ireland doesn't have to mean working in an office to have an impact. Our commitment to enabling colleagues to thrive means that depending on role type you can have choice and flexibility in where you work and live, subject to your role, customer needs and our requirements. We have a hybrid working model, with home, agile hub and office based options available. We will always list a primary location which can be where you go for in person collaboration, and a location where you can best perform your role.
Please note you must live in the jurisdiction for the business to which you are contracted. This job can be done anywhere in the UK with the primary office location as Belfast to which travel will be required for in person collaboration. Exact frequency to be agreed with manager.
In this role, you will:
- Provide a robust review and challenge process over certain of the outsourced regulatory reporting deliverables for the UK, thereby ensuring accurate, timely and complete delivery of reporting to the UK Regulatory bodies (PRA, FCA and BOE);
- Compliance with NI Note issue rules for accurate and timely daily reporting;
- Provision of daily balance sheet MI to support liquidity and capital management;
- Support the financial reporting for NIIB Group Ltd;
- Support ad-hoc projects and requests in support of team goals and the UK CFO strategic priorities.
What will make you stand out?
Strong organisational skills with the ability lead a range of contending priorities and tight delivery timelines;
Ability to work both independently on own initiative and within a collaborative team environment;
Flexible team member; sharing knowledge and proactively supporting continuous improvement to deliver process efficiencies, while also ensuring the delivery of changes arising;
Strong interpretative and analytical skills with the ability to constructively challenge both outputs and processes;
Ability to build strong relationships both within the immediate team and wider Finance and UK teams.
Essential Qualifications
Qualified Accountant or Part-Qualified Accountant working towards qualification; with relevant finance experience.
More about the team
The role holder will work within the Office of the BOIUK Chief Financial Officer, which has the overall responsibility for driving the business's forecasting process, developing focused financial insight and analysis and delivering all statutory, regulatory and external financial reporting thereby providing effective financial support to the UK management team.
This is a hybrid role, based primarily at the 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 24 days annual leave and excellent pension contributions. Family can mean different things to different people; we offer 6 months paid 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.
