UK CFO Governance & Strategy Lead

The Governance Manager will support the UK CFO in ensuring robust governance oversight and control across the UK finance organisation. This role includes leading coordination of governance forums maintaining oversight of key finance risks and actions supporting ICARA and wind-down planning activities (including associated governance and project management) and driving high standards of accountability decision-making and documentation across the function.

The role requires a highly organised and commercially aware individual who can operate effectively across senior stakeholder groups bring structure to complex topics and ensure the UK finance team maintains strong governance in a fast-paced and regulated environment.

Key Responsibilities

Governance and Committee Management

• Lead the planning coordination and smooth running of UK finance governance forums committees and working groups chaired or attended by the UK CFO.

• Prepare high-quality meeting materials including agendas papers action logs decision logs and minutes.

• Ensure governance forums have clear terms of reference objectives participants and escalation routes.

• Track actions and decisions to completion ensuring accountability and timely follow-up with stakeholders.

• Drive consistency in governance standards templates and documentation across the finance organisation.

Executive and Board Support

• Support the UK CFO in preparing materials for Executive Committees Board meetings Audit Committees and other senior governance forums.

• Coordinate inputs across Finance Risk Compliance Legal and the wider business.

• Review papers for quality clarity and completeness before circulation.

• Prepare briefing points summaries and key messages for senior leadership meetings.

Risk Control and Oversight

• Maintain oversight of governance actions finance risks control issues remediation plans and audit or regulatory commitments.

• Support governance and delivery of ICARA (tracking assumptions risks scenarios outputs).

• Oversee wind-down planning governance including ownership timelines and milestone delivery.

• Support governance of theannual external audit including deliverables requests findings and remediation tracking.

• Ensure appropriate escalation and accountability for actions.

• Collaborate with Risk Internal Audit Compliance and Financial Control to maintain a strong control environment.

ICARA Wind-Down and Regulatory Governance

• Support governance processes linked to ICARA and wind-down planning (inputs documentation approvals).

• Manage ICARA and wind-down as structured programmes (deliverables dependencies timelines).

• Support governance of the annual audit process including tracking timelines and cross-functional inputs.

• Coordinate responses to audit findings and ensure remediation is owned and delivered.

• Coordinate responses to regulators auditors and internal control functions.

• Maintain governance artefacts (committee calendars ICARA docs wind-down plans policy logs decision records).

• Promote adherence to internal governance policies and continuous improvement.

Planning and Coordination

• Build and manage an annual governance calendar aligned to Board committee audit ICARA and reporting cycles.

• Coordinate ICARA wind-down and audit timelines alongside broader finance deliverables.

• Apply strong project management discipline across ICARA wind-down and audit activities.

• Identify opportunities to improve governance processes and reporting quality.

• Support strategic and ad hoc projects for the UK CFO and finance leadership team.

Key Relationships

• UK CFO

• Head of Regulatory Finance

• UK Finance Leadership Team

• Global Financial Controller

• Risk and Compliance

• Wider UK business stakeholders

Candidate Profile

Experience

• Experience in governance COO finance operations business management or chief of staff roles in financial services or a regulated environment.

• Experience supporting senior executives and governance / Board / ExCo processes.

• Experience with ICARA wind-down planning or similar regulatory programmes (highly desirable).

• Strong track record of managing complex cross-functional regulatory or finance projects.

• Experience supporting or coordinating external audits including managing timelines requests and stakeholder engagement.

About FNZ

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