Performance and Corporate Reporting Lead

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Performance and Corporate Reporting Lead

Contract: fixed term contract 12 months

Working hours: 35 hours per week is full time.

Salary: From 68250 (Coventry) or 78550 (London)

Location: London or Coventry (Hybrid)

Reporting to: Head of Performance and Corporate Reporting

By joining our team youll enjoy the best of both worlds hybrid working and the collaboration of a great office environment. Our permanent hybrid policy sees us all working at least four days across a fortnight in the office. As well as extensive opportunities for personal and career development.

About Us:

The Financial Ombudsman Service is an independent not-for-profit organisation that plays a vital role in UK financial services. Every day we help resolve disputes between consumers or small businesses and their financial service providers.

This role exists to provide senior technical and analytical leadership for performance and corporate reporting during a critical period of transition in the organisations data and reporting landscape. The postholder is accountable for ensuring Executive Board and external reporting requirements are clearly defined technically robust and delivered at pace while longer-term data warehouse solutions are being developed.

Operating with a high degree of autonomy the role bridges business executive and technical teams. It translates complex and often ambiguous questions into clear reporting requirements data logic and interim solutions while shaping and assuring sustainable reporting capability delivered through the enterprise data platform.

What Youll Do:

Youll own executivelevel performance and corporate reporting ensuring a clear consistent view of performance from Board to operational level. Youll define the metrics narrative and reporting structure build interim solutions using SQL and Power BI and assure the quality logic and transparency of all reporting. Working closely with Data BI and Technology teams youll ensure reporting meets senior stakeholder needs and aligns with business intent.

This is a highimpact role with real influence at senior levels. Youll bring clarity to complex and evolving data shape how leaders understand performance and help drive better decisions. Youll navigate ambiguity align stakeholders on measures and definitions and proactively manage risks in the reporting landscape making this a rewarding challenge for someone who thrives on ownership complexity and visibility.

To be considered for this role youll need to show us that youve got the skills and capabilities. Youll have to meet the following minimum criteria:

Minimum Criteria:

• Strong technical capability with handson experience using SQL Power BI and Excel to interrogate transform validate and model data for complex performance or corporate reporting.

• Experience of communicating complex data to senior stakeholders including Executive or Boardlevel audiences using clear narrative to tell a compelling story with data and explain performance drivers and risks.

• The ability to communicate confidently in both technical and nontechnical ways translating ambiguous business or executive questions into structured reporting requirements and clearly explaining logic assumptions and limitations.

• Experience of operating at senior specialist level in analytics performance reporting or business intelligence with accountability for highprofile businesscritical reporting outputs and sound judgement on data quality and tradeoffs.

It would also be nice for you to have:

• Ability to demonstrate strong stakeholdermanagement and influencing skills evidenced by working across multiple functions and aligning senior stakeholders on reporting definitions measures or approaches.

• Ability to show sound judgement and confidence when challenged including defending analytical approaches data assumptions and tradeoffs with credibility and clarity.

• Proven experience partnering effectively with data engineering BI or technology teams contributing to the design or embedding of reporting within enterprise data platforms.

• Ability to demonstrate an interest in improving data maturity including designing interim or prototype reporting solutions where data structures are still evolving.

• Evidence of behaviours and ways of working that align well with our organisational values demonstrated through collaboration accountability curiosity and a commitment to highquality outcomes.

Why Youll Love Working With Us:

We are a values led organisation. Our values define our culture influence our decisions and underpin our vision and strategy. They set out how we play our PART through Purpose Ambition Respect and Trust. You can learn more about our values here: Work your way hybrid or in-office

We also offer an attractive competitive salary and flexible benefits to suit our people. Heres a list of some of the many benefits and perks you can get for working with us:

• 25 days holiday entitlement with the option to buy extra or sell days
• Generous pension
• Various Family Friendly Policies including enhanced maternity pay carers and dependants leave
• Employer provided benefits such as Private medical insurance virtual GP Critical illness cover Life assurance cover to name a few
• Choice of voluntary benefits including Technology scheme Cycle to work scheme Will-writing service amongst others
• Gym membership discounts and a fully equipped on-site gym open 24/7 in London only

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Applications need to be submitted by 23:59 on 26 May 2026

Longlisted applicants will be asked to complete an online assessment

Due to high application numbers this advert may end earlier than the date specified so please dont delay and apply now!

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The Financial Ombudsman is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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