Job Role: Finance Analyst (12 months FTC)
Location: Solihull (with hybrid working)
Salary: £45,000-55,000 per annum
Hours: 35 per week
About the company
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, but we can’t achieve our customer focused strategy without the right people in our team.
At Secure Trust Bank, we know that people are our biggest Asset, which is why a career with us is not just a job. It’s the chance to be part of something bigger, to add real value to the Bank and help us constantly improve. We believe in giving our staff autonomy, with initiative and exceptional performance recognised through a variety of individual and team awards and incentives. All our employees have a tangible impact on the Group’s core values, and we are looking for candidates who are enthusiastic, proactive and enjoy working in a fast paced environment.
Why Join Us?
- A competitive salary and benefits package including discretionary bonus
- Matched pension contributions
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and your birthday off, on us!
- A monthly wellbeing[PS1] hour to spend doing whatever makes you happy
- A wide range of flexible benefits from Cycle2Work to private healthcare
- Life assurance
- Paid volunteering days and matched charity fundraising
- A collaborative and flexible working environment.
- Opportunities for professional development and career progression.
- A chance to make a real impact in a regulated, purpose-driven organisation.
What you`ll be doing
In this role, you’ll play a key part in supporting the FP&A team on a high-profile strategic project. You’ll help shape and evaluate business cases, while driving the tracking, reporting, and realisation of project benefits to ensure measurable impact. Alongside this, you’ll provide valuable analytical insight across month-end reporting, variance analysis, and cost tracking. Your work will help maintain strong financial discipline, deliver clear visibility, and support informed decision-making throughout the project lifecycle.
- Support the development and ongoing refinement of business cases for a key strategic project
- Track and report on financial and non-financial benefits, highlighting variances and risks
- Maintain clear documentation of benefits, assumptions, timelines, and ownership
- Monitor project spend against budget and forecast, identifying trends and cost pressures
- Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure accurate cost capture and allocation
- Support month-end processes, including variance analysis and performance reporting
- Provide clear financial insights and commentary on key cost drivers and trends
- Assist in preparing reporting packs for finance teams and senior stakeholders
- Support forecasting activities, including data input, validation, and system uploads
- Work cross-functionally to improve data quality, reporting processes, and financial transparency
What we`re looking for
- Experience in a finance, FP&A, or management accounting role
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret financial data and explain insights clearly
- Experience with variance analysis, budgeting, and cost tracking
- High attention to detail and a structured approach to analysis
- Strong Excel skills and confidence working with financial models and data sets
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
- Experience supporting business cases and/or benefits realisation
- Exposure to project financial reporting or programme finance
- Experience working with stakeholders outside of finance
Everyone is different. Everyone is valued
As part of our vision to become the most trusted specialist lender in the UK, we’ve been helping customers and businesses fulfil their ambitions since 1952. In that time, we’ve learned that we’re more than the sum of our parts. We’re a strong Group because of our people being our strengths; specialist, expert, ambitious and also diverse. All of our people are different and this is something we celebrate.
Every one of our employees brings unique talent, ability and perspective to their role.
That’s why Secure Trust Bank Group nurtures differences. We understand that we perform better because we’re not cast from the same mould. We actively embrace and support diversity, work with leading industry bodies and promote initiatives that reinforce our philosophy of giving you the freedom to be who you are.
We’re an award-winning bank providing savings accounts and lending services to over one million customers. We’re Secure Trust Bank Group. We embrace difference.
