Senior Finance Business Partner

Job description

**Senior Finance Business Partner, UK Finance** **About us:** We built ClearBank on the belief that banking infrastructure would no longer slow down progress. Instead, it would be a catalyst that unlocks the potential to innovate. It would adapt to different needs so a new era in financial services could begin. We’re here to challenge the status quo in banking, are you? We all know that transforming banking forever is not an easy mission, but we’re more than ready to rise to that challenge. We all do it every day; navigating new, unexpected and sometimes even daunting challenges. But we believe in ourselves and trust we can do it. Want to innovate? Go for it. Push for a better way? You Can. If you think you have it in you, this is Where You Can. **Role Purpose** As Senior Finance Business Partner, you’ll play a key strategic and operational leadership role within our UK Finance team, reporting to the UK CFO. You’ll provide independent financial oversight and insight across the UK Bank, deputise for the UK CFO when required and connect UK Finance with Group Finance teams. The role combines financial control, regulatory oversight, planning and commercial finance to support effective decision-making and sustainable performance. This is a visible senior role requiring strong technical expertise, commercial judgement and the confidence to influence and constructively challenge senior stakeholders. **Key Responsibilities** - Deputise for the UK CFO, including supporting interactions with the Board and Executive Committee. - Lead the relationship between UK Finance and Group Finance, ensuring services meet UK regulatory and operational requirements. - Maintain independent oversight of the UK Bank’s financial position, constructively challenging and validating Group Finance outputs. - Lead UK financial planning and analysis, including budgeting, forecasting and performance reporting. - Partner with the UK leadership team on business cases, profitability and strategic decision-making. - Support the review of regulatory submissions and the preparation of Board and Executive Committee papers. - Monitor compliance with UK regulatory and prudential requirements, escalating risks and control weaknesses appropriately. - Improve financial processes and reporting to strengthen clarity, accuracy and timeliness. - Act as a trusted adviser to the UK CFO and senior stakeholders, providing clear financial insight and challenge. - Contribute financial leadership to strategic initiatives, including growth planning and operational resilience. **Skills & Experience** - A recognised accountancy qualification, such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA or an equivalent, with significant post-qualification experience in financial services. - Broad finance experience covering financial control, reporting, planning and commercial finance. - Strong knowledge of UK GAAP and IFRS. - Experience of regulatory and prudential requirements, including PRA and FCA frameworks, ICAAP, ILAAP, and recovery and resolution planning. - Experience working within a regulated UK banking environment. - Strong budgeting, forecasting, performance analysis and business-case development skills. - Experience working effectively across a matrix organisation. - Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the confidence to engage and constructively challenge at Board and Executive level. - Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to simplify complexity and focus on material issues. - Sound professional judgement, independence and professional scepticism. - A collaborative, outcome-focused approach, with the ability to take ownership, identify risks early and support shared goals. **Ways of Working & Culture** **Build Trust Together**: Take ownership of outcomes, maintain high standards of integrity and create confidence through reliable delivery and strong controls. Work effectively as part of a small, hands-on team, taking accountability for delivery while helping to improve and scale processes as the Finance function grows. **Care Like We Mean It**: Support colleagues, provide constructive challenge and create an environment where people can perform at their best. **Grow With The Challenge**: Embrace change, continuously develop expertise and proactively seek opportunities to improve ways of working. **Succeed As One**: Work collaboratively across teams and functions, recognising that the best outcomes are achieved together. **Clear A Bold New Path**: Challenge existing processes, champion innovation and help build scalable finance capabilities for the future. **If this sounds like you, then we encourage you to dust off that CV and apply!** ***\*Please note that we are not currently able to sponsor applicants for immigration purposes.*** **A little bit more about us!** **ClearBank is Where You Can belong:** At ClearBank we think about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) a lot. Not because we think we should. But because we know we should – how else can we build a happy workforce and be successful as a business. We’re committed to making sure our teams reflect society. And we put energy and effort into making this a place where everyone feels at home, where they’re given the trust and encouragement to do their very best work. Here are some of the things we’re most proud of: - 42% of our senior management roles are held by women - Our enhanced family leave policies - Launching our partnership with Code First Girls - Increasing awareness of neurodiversity in the workplace through our partnership with the Inclusive Group **Our hiring process and what you can expect:** **Application:** a member of our talent acquisition team will review your application against the key requirements for the role and let you know within two weeks whether you’re moving forward to the next stage; **Screening:** You’ll spend 30-45 minutes speaking to one of our recruiters learning more about the role and ClearBank, and we’ll get it know more about you, your experience and how your skills align with the role (this will be via phone or Teams video call). You can expect to hear back from us within seven days following this meeting (if things are taking longer than expected, we’ll let you know that too); **First Interview:** You’ll spend one hour with a member of our hiring team focusing on your skills, competencies and your ways of working at the same time we’ll give you time to ask more questions about the role, the team and learn more about the ClearBank culture. This will be via Teams. **Second Interview:** This will be a competency-based interview with one or more members of our team. **Final Stage:** You will have a final meeting with the Head of Department. This will be around 45-60 minutes. **Offer:** Congratulations! Get ready to transform banking forever! **Our commitment to you as a candidate:** We will always try our best to get back to you within seven days of your interview whether you’ve been successful or not and provide you with feedback. Sometimes things take a little longer, so we may not have a decision to share but we will get it touch to let you know we need a little more time. We’re unable to provide specific individual feedback at the application or screening stage but know that your application was reviewed and considered carefully. We wish you the best of luck with your application and maybe we’ll be celebrating your new role at ClearBank soon! **Equal Opportunities** ClearBank is committed to ensuring equal opportunities throughout every stage of the recruitment process. ClearBank recognises that diversity is vital to the long-term success of the business in the communities and markets in which it operates. ClearBank is also a firm believer that an inclusive culture fosters greater employee engagement and collaboration. ClearBank strives for diversity and inclusion of all forms, including (but not limited to): gender, age, educational and professional background, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief and sexual orientation. As part of the Company’s commitment to equal employment opportunity, we provide reasonable adjustments, to candidates during the recruitment process, including to individuals with disabilities. We want to create a safe space that welcomes everyone so please let us know how we can accommodate you. In case you have any accessibility requirements you can share that with our Talent Acquisition team prior to your interview stage, if applicable. **The legal bit** By submitting your CV to ClearBank Limited you are providing your consent for us to use the information you provide for recruitment purposes. For more information on how we manage your data go and check out our Candidate Privacy Notice on the ClearBank website to see how we process, manage and look after your data. You are also allowing us to communicate with you by email and telephone for recruitment purposes.