Commercial Accountant / Management Accountant / Decision Support Manager recruitment

Business Services make it happen 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, for the Group's customers. It is the backbone of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group, providing a diverse range of high quality services to the customer-facing operations of the Group. The Business Services model is recognised as delivering a key competitive advantage for the RBS group by providing common platforms and processes for multiple brands.  Business Services is the power behind our brands. Business Services Finance's mission is to support Business Services in defining and achieving its objectives, by influencing decisions through the provision of business and financial expertise whilst ensuring compliance with the Group governance framework.

Business Services Group Centre Finance is responsible for influencing decisions through the provision of commercial and financial expertise and ensuring compliance with the group governance framework. The Finance team provides analytical support, pan Business Services (BS) to the BS Executive in respect of financial and management information and reporting, divisional financial management and developing and appraising prospective information such as budgets, forecasts and investment appraisals.

Within these Commercial / Management Accountant (Decision Support) roles, you'll pro-actively support, challenge and influence the senior management of Business Services in their decision making process. As well as contributing to the delivery of Group objectives, you'll also provide accurate, timely, and relevant information and analysis to the Group, together with appropriate levels of interpretation. Additionally you'll provide guidance and direction to enable the business to make informed decisions from a financial perspective. Raising appropriate levels of challenge to business assumptions and performance criteria, will be key.

You'll need to be a business focussed qualified accountant / management accountant (ACCA, CA, CIMA or equivalent), to be successful in this Commercial / Management Accountant (Decision Support) role. Naturally, you'll have strong business acumen and experience within either financial services or the commercial sector. You'll have a proven ability to communicate at the highest level in a large organisation, coupled with strong analytical skills and experience assimilating information and formulating solutions.

In return, we offer an excellent employee salary and 30% cash and benefit funding programme which can be tailored to suit your individual needs. In addition to financial benefits, we offer a wide selection of exclusive lifestyle offers, development and learning programmes, services and support designed to help you manage and balance your own work-life priorities.

Please note as part of our referencing process credit checks will be undertaken.

If you'd like to discuss this role in confidence please contact Laura Adams on 0131 626 2413