Join us as our Chief Operating Officer, Finance
What you’ll do
As Chief Operating Officer (COO), Finance, you’ll provide integrated leadership across Finance, ensuring the function runs safely, efficiently and in line with strategic ambitions. Reporting to the Group Director of Finance, you’ll operate as a core member of the Finance Executive Committee and play a pivotal role in enabling high‑quality decision making, delivery and operational resilience.
You’ll be accountable for strategic leadership and execution, providing clear operational and governance oversight across the portfolio. You’ll also bring together finance and risk accountabilities with change leadership, people and culture ownership, and a strong focus on unified business management and stakeholder engagement.
The skills you’ll need
We’re looking for an experienced senior leader with a strong track record of running complex operations and delivering large‑scale transformation within a Financial Services environment.
You’ll also be able to demonstrate:
A qualified accountant background is desirable, but not essential
Hours
35
Job Posting Closing Date:
22/05/2026Ways of Working:Hybrid
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate.
As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these.
Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence.
One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025.
We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
