Senior Finance Associate - Finance Transformation

About This Role

This senior finance associate role is a 12-month fixed-term contract focusing on finance transformation within the UK Finance team. It requires a dynamic, self-motivated finance professional to drive the end-to-end technical execution of complex strategic initiatives, translating finance data and systems requirements into scalable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Act as the lead resource for finance-based projects, navigating governance routines and managing RAIDD (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies, and Decisions) items
• Drive key project testing cycles, managing UAT and Close Simulation (SIM) test scenarios efficiently to strict deadlines
• Identify system blockers early (such as issues with financial dashboards and reports), develop workarounds, and clearly communicate the impact to other Lines of Business
• Partner closely with UK and enterprise teams to resolve issues and represent UK Finance's interests
• Focus and highlight key points with transparency when communicating complex project statuses to stakeholders
• Go beyond surface-level analysis to generate meaningful insights, analysing qualitative and quantitative data to ensure data integrity
• Provide general finance support and remediations as priorities are balanced during this transition

Requirements

• Proven experience in traditional finance processes (forecasting, variance analysis) combined with a strong project management or systems implementation background
• Experience with general finance concepts, tools and financial systems is highly preferred
• Strong aptitude and adaptability to learn new systems
• Ability to navigate difficult stakeholder situations and comprehensively consider the impact of decisions on other partner groups
• Proactive mindset to identify problems, drive independent solutions, and influence your team to shape better outcomes
• Collaborative approach, focused on building strong, connected working relationships
• Strong focus on driving process improvement and a willingness to embrace new technology and AI to unlock operational efficiencies

Nice to have:

• Experience specifically with Workday Financials

Important Details

• Schedule: 3 days in-office (Tuesday-Thursday) and 2 days remote (Mondays and Fridays)
• Contract: 12-month fixed-term, with potential to explore a permanent role
• Team: The role sits at the intersection of financial strategy and project delivery

About the Company

Capital One is on a mission to be a force for good in lending and has been recognised as a great place to work. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is building a leading information-based technology company, aiming to help customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. It operates several different entities, including Capital One Canada, Capital One Europe, and Capital One Philippines Service Corp. (COPSSC).