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The bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of LHV Group, a listed financial services provider headquartered in Estonia. LHV Bank operates under a full UK banking licence granted in May 2023.\nThe Bank supports over 200 fintech clients with embedded financial infrastructure, provides retail savings products via digital channels, and offers SME credit solutions across the UK. In line with its regulatory responsibilities and growth ambitions, LHV Bank is committed to maintaining a robust and proportionate financial crime control environment.\nExpanding our services, LHV Bank now provides personal banking solutions. Our offerings include current accounts with competitive interest rates, fixed-rate bonds for long-term savings, and debit cards. Customers can conveniently access these services through the LHV App, enabling secure account opening and management.\nThe FP&A Analyst will support the delivery of high-quality financial planning, analysis and management information across the Bank.\nWorking closely with the Senior FP&A Analyst, the role will contribute to monthly management reporting, budgeting and forecasting, cost centre analysis and business partnering. The successful candidate will take ownership of defined reporting and analytical activities while developing their understanding of the Bank’s products, financial performance and key business drivers.\nThis role provides an opportunity for a part-qualified accountant to develop broad FP&A and commercial finance experience within a growing and regulated banking environment.\nResponsibilities\nManagement reporting\nSupport the preparation of monthly financial reports for the Executive Committee, Board and other senior management forums.\nPrepare recurring reporting schedules, variance analysis and supporting commentary.\nInvestigate movements against budget, forecast and prior periods, working with relevant stakeholders to understand the underlying drivers.\nHelp translate financial results into clear and meaningful information for non-financial stakeholders.\nMaintain reporting files, reconciliations and appropriate review controls to ensure management information is complete and accurate.\nCost centre reporting\nPrepare monthly cost centre reports and provide budget holders with clear analysis of actual expenditure, commitments and forecast performance.\nAnalyse cost trends and variances, identifying unusual or unexpected movements for further investigation.\nSupport cost centre owners in understanding their financial performance and maintaining accurate forecasts.\nAssist with the review of supplier expenditure, headcount costs and other key operating expense categories.\nMaintain cost centre structures, reporting mappings and supporting data.\nBusiness partnering\nBuild effective working relationships with stakeholders across the Bank.\nProvide timely financial information and analysis to support operational and commercial decision-making.\nRespond to routine and ad-hoc requests from the business, escalating more complex analysis where appropriate.\nSupport the Senior FP&A Analyst with scenario analysis, margin analysis, investment cases and other business partnering activities.\nDevelop an understanding of the Bank’s products and operational processes in order to explain financial performance and constructively challenge assumptions.\nForecasting, budgeting and financial planning\nSupport the annual budgeting process and preparation of rolling forecasts.\nCoordinate the collection and review of budget and forecast submissions from business areas.\nUpdate financial models and planning schedules for agreed assumptions and business inputs.\nCompare actual performance against forecast assumptions and identify areas requiring refinement.\nSupport the preparation of forecast presentations, analysis and commentary for senior management.\nAssist with the integration of cost, revenue, balance sheet and headcount assumptions into the Bank’s financial plans.\nData, systems and process improvement\nExtract, organise and validate financial and operational data used in FP&A reporting.\nPerform reconciliations between management reporting, financial systems and source data.\nHelp maintain and improve reporting templates, models and documented procedures.\nIdentify opportunities to make recurring reporting more efficient, controlled and reliable.\nSupport the development of automated reports and dashboards where appropriate.\nAbout you\nPart-qualified accountant studying towards an ACCA, CIMA or ACA qualification, or with relevant equivalent experience.\nExperience in management accounting, financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting or a related finance role.\nExperience within financial services or another regulated environment would be advantageous but is not essential.\nStrong numerical and analytical skills, with good attention to detail.\nAble to investigate financial information, identify key movements and present conclusions clearly.\nComfortable communicating with both finance and non-finance stakeholders.\nOrganised and able to manage recurring deadlines alongside ad-hoc requests.\nCurious, proactive and willing to develop an understanding of the Bank’s products and business model.\nGood Excel skills, including formulas, pivot tables and working with structured data.\nExperience of Power Query, SQL or other data and reporting tools would be advantageous but is not essential.\nA commitment to continuing professional development and completing a relevant accounting qualification.\nSome of our benefits (only applicable to UK based roles not Internship programmes) \nCompetitive salary &lots of opportunities to learn, grow and progress professionally.\nOpen and inclusive culture. \nHybrid working.\nFantastic offices and great working environment.\nVitality Health Plan (includes private health insurance, travel insurance, gym discounts) \nHealth cash Plan (Medicash health plan Level 3)\n6% employer pension contribution.\nLife assurance - 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