Head of Banking Product Control

Responsibilities

• Through the course of your work, you'll be:
• Reviewing, challenging, and escalating the adequacy and effectiveness of the business's controls
• Leading high-quality analytical review of product, franchise, and legal entity outcomes, providing clear insight and commentary on financial movements, judgements, notable items, and emerging risks
• Leading delivery across BAU and change priorities, ensuring high-quality outputs, resolving issues at pace, and balancing short-term deadlines with longer-term operating model improvement
• Building strong cross-location and cross-functional partnerships, creating a clear, consistent, and well-controlled service for stakeholders
• Driving automation, simplification, and standardisation of product control, eliminating non-value-add work and improving transparency, control quality, and future-ready capability across the team
• The skills you'll need
• In addition, we'll look to you to bring:
• Experience in providing senior management with high-quality financial insight and control information
• The credibility to build and sustain strong relationships with senior stakeholders, while providing effective review, challenge, and escalation on technical, control, and delivery matters
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex accounting, control, reporting, and change issues clearly and succinctly to senior management
• A proven ability to deliver high-quality outputs in a complex control environment, while meeting demanding deadlines
• Hours
• 35
• Job Posting Closing Date:
• 22/06/2026
• Ways of Working:Hybrid

Additional Information

Join us as the Head of Banking Product Control In this senior leadership role, you'll lead Banking Product Control, with accountability for product-level ledger integrity, substantiation, analytical review, disclosure input, and control outcomes We'll look to you to build and maintain strong, trusted working relationships with key stakeholders across Finance, providing insight, review, and challenge where it matters most As a key member of our team, you'll have high visibility across Finance, with the opportunity to shape how Banking Product Control evolves You'll spend some of your time working from home, and come into the office a few days per week

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