Finance Change Manager

Join one of the UK’s fastest growing and award-winning banks.

We are a team of ambitious, passionate, hardworking, and committed people who have successfully created and launched one of the UK’s newest specialist property finance banks. As we embark on an exciting journey of growth, we are seeking exceptional new team members who possess both the ambition and drive to contribute to our vision. At GB Bank, we believe that career progression should not only be achievable but accelerated, enabling our employees to reach their potential in a supportive and dynamic atmosphere.

Our environment is fast-paced and collaborative, where your efforts are recognised, rewarded, and make a tangible impact. We take pride in fostering and open and inclusive culture that not only embraces change but also encourages continuous learning and professional development.

The Finance Change role is responsible for delivering strategic and operational change across the Finance and Regulatory function, improving processes, systems, data and controls. The role works collaboratively with Finance, Regulatory reporting, Change, Technology and wider business teams to document requirements for Finance team solutions, manage delivery risks and dependencies, and embed sustainable improvements that enhance efficiency, accuracy, governance and regulatory compliance.

• Support the delivery of strategic and operational change initiatives across the Finance and Regulatory functions, ensuring alignment with business priorities and agreed outcomes.
• Work with Finance, Reg, Change, Technology and wider business stakeholders to define scope, capture requirements and translate them into clear and practical solutions.
• Document future-state processes, identifying opportunities to simplify activities, remove inefficiencies and strengthen controls.
• Coordinate Finance input into system implementations, upgrades and data initiatives, ensuring solutions meet accounting, reporting, control and regulatory requirements.
• Support solution design, testing, reconciliation and implementation, including coordination of user acceptance testing and resolution of defects.
• Ensure appropriate governance, controls and audit trails are embedded throughout the change lifecycle and that solutions comply with relevant policies and regulatory requirements.
• Prepare clear progress updates, management information and decision papers for project governance forums and senior stakeholders.
• Support business readiness, training, communications and handover to ensure new processes and systems are understood, adopted and sustainably embedded.
• Monitor delivery against agreed objectives and assess post-implementation outcomes, identifying lessons learned and further improvement opportunities.
• Build effective working relationships across the organisation and act as a trusted point of contact for Finance change matters.

• Demonstrable experience delivering finance and regulatory change, transformation or continuous improvement initiatives, preferably within financial services or another regulated environment.
• Strong understanding of core finance processes, including financial control, management reporting, statutory and regulatory reporting, planning and forecasting.
• Experience gathering, analysing and documenting business requirements, processes, controls and data flows.
• Practical experience supporting finance system implementations, upgrades, data migrations, testing and business readiness activities in a regulated entity.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess complex information, identify root causes and develop pragmatic solutions.
• Sound knowledge of project and…