Deputy Finance Director
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Financial Control & Reporting
- Lead the monthly and annual close process for all group entities,
- ensuring timely, accurate, IFRS-compliant reporting.
- Maintain strong ledger controls, reconciliations, and balance sheet
- integrity.
- Oversee preparation of statutory accounts and coordination of annual
- financial statements.
- Support delivery of external audits for bank and group entities.
- Taxation
- Lead UK tax compliance, including corporation tax, VAT, and governance
- requirements.
- Oversee group tax operations across the UK, US, and India, managing
- external advisors and ensuring timely submissions.
- Support transfer pricing, intercompany arrangements, and tax
- optimisation initiatives.
- Regulatory Reporting
- Provide senior oversight of PRA, FCA, BoE returns, and Pillar 3
- disclosures.
- Act as escalation point for technical/regulatory matters and policy
- interpretation.
- Oversee improvements to regulatory reporting processes and systems,
- ensuring integration with core finance operations.
- Governance & Controls
- Strengthen the financial control environment through targeted process
- improvements, policy alignment, and control testing.
- Drive consistency in policies, reconciliations, and governance standards
- across the group.
- Leadership & Collaboration
- Functionally lead and mentor finance controllership teams in India,
- ensuring alignment of objectives, processes, and performance standards
- with UK operations.
- Act as the day-to-day lead for finance operations, providing continuity for the Head of Finance & Controls.
- Partner with FP&A, Treasury, Regulatory, and Legal teams to deliver
- aligned outputs and support business-wide priorities.
- Transformation & Strategic Initiatives
- Lead strategic finance projects, capital optimisation, and process
- improvements, including adoption of automation, AI, and system
- upgrades to enhance efficiency, controls, and readiness for new products
- or services.
- Qualifications & Experience
- Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or equivalent) with 10+ years'
- post-qualified experience.
- Strong background in IFRS reporting, tax compliance, and financial
- controls within financial services or banking; knowledge of US GAAP an
- advantage.
- Proven track record in managing close processes, statutory filings, and
- regulatory interactions.
- Experience working across geographies and with senior stakeholders.
- Skills & Attributes
- Hands-on leader with strong technical expertise and a delivery focus.
- Confident communicator, able to engage effectively with senior
- stakeholders, advisors, and regulators.
- Organised, proactive, and resilient in a fast-paced, regulated
- environment.
- Collaborative and capable of developing high-performing teams.
- Equity. We want people to have a stake in the business so that all our interests are aligned.
- 25 days holiday
- Personalized benefits - opt-in to what matters to you
- Subsidised Private Medical Insurance with Bupa
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Wellbeing and social events
- In-house Barista Bar in London office
- Support causes that matter to you - Volunteering time off
- Salary sacrifice schemes (Cycle to work, nursery, gym, electric car scheme)