Senior Finance Manager

Job Title: Senior Finance Manager
Location: Sheffield (3 days onsite per week)
Salary/Rate: £430-480 per day inside IR35
Start Date: 15/09/2026
Job Type: Initial contract until 28/02/2027

Company Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading consultancy clients! They are currently looking for a skilled Senior Finance Manager to join our client in a Tier 1 Bank in Sheffield on a hybrid basis.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

A key role within the CTO COO team, the Senior Finance Manager will lead all financial management activities for the Enterprise Infrastructure area - across an annual P&L budget of ~$1bn+ USD spanning ~18 countries.
Enterprise Infrastructure sits at the heart of HSBC's Chief Technology Office (CTO) - operating, maintaining & transforming the technology infrastructure used by the rest of the bank to run applications & services (Servers, storage, databases, Mainframe, Middleware, internal cloud & automation technologies amongst others).

• Lead all financial management activities for Enterprise Infrastructure - across both expenses & internal customer charges:
• o Annual planning/budget/target setting process
• o Monthly financial forecasting to a high level of accuracy
• o Monthly tracking of actuals vs. forecast vs. target - investigating, explaining & resolving variances
• o Monthly management reporting
• o Accrual management
• o Cost optimisation planning & tracking
• Collaborate & engage with a range of stakeholders - Managing Director & Executive Committee, COO, CTO CFO, Local Financial Controllers/Operations, Cost Management & Procurement amongst others.
• Continuously improve COO processes.

Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Finance business partnering (or similar) experience.
• Experience managing financials across multiple countries.
• Comfortable working independently & proactively to solve problems.
• Proficiency managing & reporting on large data sets.
• Proficiency with financial analysis tools (Excel a must-have, Apptio IT Planning experience or similar desired)
• Collaborative, engaging, credible and methodical; being able to bring the numbers to life (eg, presenting).
• Experience of building and maintaining strong relationships with senior stakeholders (all levels of seniority).
• Experience within Financial Services and/or Technology functions (nice to have).

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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