Strategic Finance Partner, Data and AI

Closing date for applications: 28/07/2026

Location Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Job typePermanent | Contract typeFull Time

Remote / On-site Hybrid

You’ll spend some of your time at home, working with your team digitally. You’ll also regularly work at your office or hub to collaborate with your colleagues.

Senior Manager

This is a general indication and doesn’t always reflect day-to-day responsibilities. Check the job description for full details.

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Job description

This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

Join us as a Strategic Finance Partner, Data and AI

Join us in Digital X Technology to support and challenge the business in achieving its strategic goals by applying strong financial, cost and investment knowledge, alongside a strong understanding of technology, data and AI

You’ll play a key role in managing the relationship between Finance and the Digital X business, partnering closely with our franchise Chief Information Officers, Data & Engineering, and the Chief AI Research Officer

It’s a chance to develop your leadership profile as you lead and manage a strategic finance team, while benefiting from valuable exposure and recognition in one of the bank’s most forward-looking and innovative areas

What you'll do

As a Strategic Finance Partner, you’ll ensure decisions are economically sound, aligned to strategic priorities, and deliver measurable value while maintaining strong financial control in a highly regulated environment. You’ll shape and influence outcomes, applying a combination of commercial insight, financial acumen, and broader analytics, alongside a strong understanding of technology, digital platforms and AI-driven transformation.

Acting as a credible and trusted partner within a highly technical environment, you’ll also be:

Shaping and influencing the bank’s resource prioritisation choices, balancing growth, resilience, regulatory compliance, and cost efficiency with a customer-first mindset

Providing insight and appraisal on key transformation initiatives, such as platform modernisation, cloud migration, and vendor strategies

Supporting long‑term financial planning, including understanding the impact of multi‑year investment roadmaps and run‑the‑bank vs change‑the‑bank trade‑offs

Translating complex technical and investment strategies into clear financial insights and implications

Owning the oversight of the full P&L and balance sheet impacts of the technology cost base, for the areas you partner

Driving all business finance requirements, including month end requirements, strategic planning, functional reporting and insight requirements and ensuring the timely escalation of issues

Leading and developing a finance team and building strong relationships with Group and Franchise Finance teams as well as broader enterprise networks

Acting as a trusted adviser in various forums across Digital X

Actively partnering to ensure the business delivers on its financial and resource targets

The skills you'll need

To succeed in this role, you’ll be a qualified accountant with strategic awareness and the ability to apply business and technical knowledge, expertise and challenge to support the business, particularly in a fast-evolving digital, data and AI landscape. You’ll bring the credibility to engage and influence senior technology leaders, including the Group CIO and their leadership team, and the ability to translate between finance and technical domains to support better decision making.

In addition, you’ll have strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to communicate, influence and resolve conflict at executive level.

You’ll also demonstrate:

Deep experience of partnering with technology, digital, data or AI functions, with the ability to understand and influence management decisions in an increasingly fast paced environment

The ability to deal with ambiguity, uncertainty and risk in a dynamic, innovation-led environment

Strong finance functional knowledge, accounting knowledge and market segment knowledge

The ability to provoke and lead strategic change within senior executive and technology leadership teams

The ability to lead, motivate and develop a team of finance professionals and play an active role in leading on the Finance Function’s evolution

Your benefits breakdown

Here’s a quick look at what your pay package and annual leave could look like if you get accepted for the role. We have a wide range of benefits to support you in your working life and beyond.

Tap each segment for details.

Your pay package

100% Base pay This is your base pay package that you take home every month.

+10% Pension funding This is monthly funding paid towards your pension.

up to +10% Benefit funding This is monthly funding paid towards a range of benefits you can choose from.

Your leave allowance

30 days Annual leave You’ll also have the opportunity to purchase up to 5 additional days off.

3 days Volunteering Take time off to support the causes you’re passionate about.

3 days Training Take time to build the skills you need to grow your career.

Total rewards package

Welcome to our Gogarburn hub

Set in large grounds including beautiful woodland, Gogarburn offers a conference centre, a business school with hotel bedrooms, a restaurant, relaxing zen gardens, onsite parking, and excellent transport links.

Key facts:

Surrounded by 85 acres of woodland

Our carparks provide electric vehicle charging

Opened in 2005