Deputy Manager - Finance

Finance Business Partner supporting the Technology Office, providing financial leadership, insight, and challenge to operational, product, technology, and leadership teams. Responsible for management accounting, month-end reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning, ensuring accurate reporting, robust controls, and compliance with finance policies. Partners with stakeholders to manage key cost drivers including headcount, contractors, cloud, technology, and project spend, while delivering clear visibility of financial performance, risks, opportunities, and future commitments. Provides commercial support for business cases, transformation initiatives, and strategic vendor arrangements, and continuously improves reporting, dashboards, and finance processes through tools such as Excel, Power BI, SAP, and Copilot.

Job title: Deputy Manager - Finance

Job Description:  Act as a Finance Business Partner for the Technology Office, working closely with operational, product, technology and leadership teams to provide financial insight, challenge and decision support.  Lead management accounting activities, including month-end close, journals, accruals, prepayments, allocations, reconciliations and review of P&L results to ensure accurate financial reporting.  Prepare monthly reporting packs, variance analysis and commentary for senior finance and business stakeholders, clearly explaining key movements, risks, opportunities and financial performance trends.  Support budgeting, forecasting and planning cycles by consolidating inputs, validating assumptions, reviewing run-rate impacts and ensuring financial plans align with operational priorities.  Partner with stakeholders to manage headcount, contractor, cloud, technology, project and other key cost drivers, providing clear visibility of actual spend, commitments and future financial implications.  Maintain financial controls and governance across management accounts, balance sheet reconciliations, cost reporting and audit evidence, ensuring compliance with Group finance policies and accounting standards.  Provide commercial finance support for business cases, transformation initiatives and strategic vendor or technology service arrangements, highlighting financial risks, benefits and value drivers.  Develop and improve management information, dashboards and finance processes using tools such as Excel, Power BI, SAP and Copilot to enhance visibility, accuracy and efficiency.