Location: Solihull; a flexible hybrid working model which supports you as well as enabling you to work collaboratively with your colleagues
Contract: Full-time, Permanent
About Us
At BNP Paribas Personal Finance, we’re part of a global banking group with a simple mission: to provide straightforward consumer finance solutions that help customers make responsible financial decisions. We partner with leading UK retailers and brands to support their customers finance purchases responsibly.
The Role
Reporting to the Director of Finance, the Senior Financial Controller will provide senior leadership across financial accounting, statutory reporting, group consolidation, regulatory reporting and financial control activities for the UK entities. The role will take ownership of complex reporting and control topics, leading delivery through finance teams, influencing stakeholders across the business and supporting transformation activity to improve quality, efficiency and control.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the Director of Finance in delivering the Core Finance control agenda, ensuring financial accounting, statutory reporting, regulatory reporting, Group reporting and operational finance control activities are joined up, well governed and delivered to required standards.
- Provide senior oversight of financial accounting, management accounts, statutory accounts and Group consolidation reporting for the UK entities, ensuring outputs are accurate, controlled, complete and delivered to agreed deadlines.
- Responsible for leading and coordinating month-end, quarter-end and year-end reporting processes across relevant finance teams, influencing contributors to deliver high-quality submissions and resolving issues in a timely manner.
- Review complex accounting, reconciliation, reporting and control matters, ensuring key judgements, risks and issues are clearly documented, challenged and escalated to the Director of Finance with appropriate recommendations.
- Act as a senior point of contact for auditors, external advisors, Group finance teams, Finance Operations and wider business stakeholders on financial accounting, reporting and control matters.
- Lead, coach and develop direct reports and colleagues involved in financial accounting and control activities, promoting high performance, technical quality, ownership and continuous improvement.
Skills & Attributes
- Leadership, coaching and workload management skills
- IFRS, statutory accounting and financial reporting
- UK Taxation methodology and financial control frameworks
- Experience leading reporting cycles and coordinating deliverables across teams
- Group consolidation, balance sheet control and audit processes
Could this be you?
Making a positive impact is at the heart of everything we do. We’re looking for people who live by our values, who are positive, brave, and own it. Don’t let confidence hold you back. You don’t need to meet every requirement – if you have around 75% of the skills and the right attitude, we’d love to hear from you.
What’s in it for you
As a Top Employer UK, we offer a supportive, inclusive environment and a flexible benefits package that you can tailor to your lifestyle. Highlights include:
- Competitive salary and comprehensive package, contributory pension, and health cash plan
- Opportunity to buy/sell holiday giving you even more control over your work-life balance
- Flexible benefits including private medical insurance and lifestyle discounts
- A culture that values collaboration, development, and wellbeing
Learn more about careers with us: https://www.bnpparibas-pf.co.uk/careers
Your Application Journey
- Call with our Talent Acquisition team
- Informal chat with the Hiring Manager
- Competency-based interview
We aim to complete the process within 3-4 weeks, depending on availability. If you’re not shortlisted, we’ll still let you know the outcome.
We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace and ensuring equal opportunities for all, regardless of age, disability, gender, identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, or background.
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