Location: Alderley Edge
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing date: 2nd June 2026
Role overview
We are seeking an experienced Finance Manager to play a key leadership role within Group Finance. While operating as a senior people leader, the successful candidate will also adopt a highly hands-on approach, proactively rolling up their sleeves to resolve issues, drive delivery, and ensure high-quality outcomes. This role is responsible for managing and developing a finance team, ensuring the accurate maintenance of the accounting ledgers, delivery of high‑quality financial outputs, and providing insight and analysis to senior stakeholders. You will work closely with the Senior Finance Close Manager and Head of Finance Operations, contributing to key reporting, governance, risk management and change initiatives while driving continuous improvement across processes and controls.
Skills required
* Professionally qualified accountant, educated to degree level or comparable experience
* Strong understanding of UK Life and Pensions accounting principles and regulatory environment
* Extensive experience of working on Fusion Accounting Ledger or equivalent and working with multi-currency ledgers
* Experience interpreting and applying accounting standards, finance methodologies and regulatory requirements
* Demonstrated experience managing and developing finance teams
* Ability to analyse complex financial data and turn it into clear, meaningful insight
* Experience working with financial systems and advanced Microsoft Office capability
* Strong operational and commercial focus with an understanding of key business drivers
* Experience contributing to risk management, financial controls and governance frameworks
About you
* A confident people leader with the ability to set clear objectives and drive high performance
* A strong communicator who can explain complex financial matters clearly to both finance and non‑finance stakeholders
* Collaborative in approach, with the ability to build strong relationships across Finance and the wider business
* Proactive and improvement‑focused, with a mindset geared towards efficiency, quality and control enhancement
* Comfortable operating in a changing environment and supporting both operational delivery and change initiatives
* Values‑driven, with a commitment to fostering a positive, inclusive and high‑performing team culture
* Well organised, with strong planning skills and the ability to balance multiple priorities effectively
About Royal London
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits
Inclusion, diversity and belonging
We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.