- To provide strategic financial leadership and commercial challenge to the Business Banking Technology & Digital function, ensuring technology expenditure, investments and architecture decisions deliver measurable business value.
- The role will provide end-to-end financial oversight across technology run costs, infrastructure, cloud, applications, software and licensing, technology vendors and strategic change.
- It will translate complex technology decisions into clear financial and commercial insights that enable informed investment, prioritisation and cost optimisation.
Technology financial management
- Own financial planning, forecasting and performance management for the Technology portfolio.
- Develop transparency of technology costs across applications, platforms, infrastructure, vendors and business services.
- Establish clear views of Run vs Change expenditure and key cost drivers.
- Understand and challenge technology allocations and consumption-based charges.
- Develop Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and unit-cost perspectives for major technology services.
- Identify structural cost optimisation opportunities rather than relying only on tactical budget reductions.
Strategic technology investment and business cases
- Partner Technology executives on investment prioritisation and portfolio decisions.
- Build and challenge business cases across cloud migration, application modernisation, automation, digital platforms and technology transformation.
- Evaluate NPV, IRR, payback, P&L, cash-flow and balance-sheet implications of investments.
- Monitor benefits realisation against approved investment cases.
- Provide financial challenge on build vs buy, migrate vs retain and invest vs decommission decisions.
Cloud economics and FinOps
- Build sufficient understanding of Azure/AWS economics to challenge cloud consumption and optimisation opportunities.
- Understand consumption-based pricing, tagging and allocation methodologies.
- Partner Technology teams to improve transparency of cloud spend and accountability.
- Identify opportunities to optimise cloud utilisation and reduce inefficient consumption.
- Understand the financial implications of cloud migration and architecture decisions.
Application and technology portfolio economics
- Develop financial views at application/platform/service level, not only cost-centre level.
- Integrate application run costs, infrastructure, licences, vendor expenditure and change investment to determine full economic cost.
- Identify duplicate, underutilised or high-cost applications and platforms.
- Support application rationalisation and decommissioning decisions.
- Translate technology architecture choices into understandable financial consequences.
Technology commercial and vendor management
- Provide financial challenge on technology contracts, software licensing, SaaS, outsourcing and professional services.
- Analyse vendor cost trends and commercial commitments.
- Support contract renewal and commercial negotiation decisions.
- Challenge licence utilisation, demand and unit pricing.
- Assess the long-term TCO implications of major vendor and platform choices.
Technology performance and value management
- Establish a stronger connection between:
- Technology spend technology performance customer/business outcome financial value
Data, analytics and management insight
- Develop decision-quality reporting through Power BI and advanced Excel.
- Analyse large datasets to identify technology cost drivers and optimisation opportunities.
- Create executive dashboards linking financial and technology KPIs.
- Perform scenario, sensitivity and driver-based modelling.
- Translate complex technology financial information into concise Exco-level insights.
- Use data to move Finance from retrospective reporting toward forward-looking commercial insight.
Strategic business partnering
- Act as a credible financial adviser to BB CIO and Technology leadership.
- Constructively challenge technology investment, architecture and sourcing decisions.
- Translate technical discussions into financial and commercial implications.
- Influence decisions through fact-based analysis rather than financial control alone.
- Connect Technology priorities to BB strategy, customer outcomes, productivity and financial objectives.
- Critical skills and experience
- Finance and commercial
- Technology financial management
- FP&A, budgeting and forecasting
- Business-case development
- Investment appraisal
- TCO modelling
- Cost allocation and driver-based costing
- Benefits realisation
- Capex/Opex and capitalisation understanding
- Commercial/vendor analysis
- Advanced financial modelling
- Essential / strongly preferred
- Technology Business Management (TBM) concepts
- FinOps / cloud economics
- Application economics
- Technology cost-allocation methodologies
- Software and licensing economics
- Technology vendor management
- Understanding of infrastructure and cloud services
- Technology change/investment lifecycle
- Working knowledge
- APIs and integration
- SaaS
- Databases and compute
- Cloud vs on-premise architecture
- Cybersecurity and resilience
- Digital platforms
- AI and automation economics
- Application rationalisation and technical debt
- Postgraduate Degrees and Professional Qualifications: Financial Sciences (Required)
End Date: November 6, 2026