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Retail Banking Services (RBS) Finance acts as a partner to the RBS business and other business units (our customers) to help them succeed with achieving the Bank’s goals and fulfilling their business unit responsibilities. RBS Finance provides financial information and business advice to support our business units to build sustainable shareholder value. RBS Finance forms part of the Financial Services (FS) support unit, whose vision is to make a difference on the things that matter.
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The RBS Finance team operates as a business partner integrated with the management of the product and distribution businesses yet with a one step removed status to promote objectivity and independence of analysis and advice. Major work functions are planning, reporting and decision support to line management to promote operational and financial efficiency, productivity delivery and customer service quality.
The RBS Performance Management team is responsible for providing financial support and advice to the RBS business, with the goal of being a trusted business partner through providing valuable advice that drives business performance. The RBS Planning & Decision Support team sits within the Performance Management team and is responsible for the delivery of annual business plans, monthly forecasts, competitor analysis together with financial modelling and advice to drive RBS performance and strategy.

This role reports directly to the Senior Manager Planning & Decision Support, RBS Financial Services.

• The Manager Decision Support is a key partner to the RBS business in providing integrated financial support and reporting to the RBS business and leadership team. The role involves:
• Preparing time critical business review of strategic investments and transactions for RBS;
• Performing analysis on the RBS investment spend portfolio;
• Performing financial modelling and strategic analysis to facilitate decision making by the business; and
• To support outstanding customer service, the role requires stakeholder management, across a wide range of stakeholders

The responsibilities of the Manager Decision Support include:

• Ability to articulate key business drivers, provide critical insights to drive debate, and deliver value-add analysis across the RBS portfolio of products and businesses;
• Advice and review of strategic investments and transactions (including working closely with M&A);
• Production of detailed financial models, analysis and insight to drive RBS performance and strategy;
• Delivery of analysis on the RBS investment spend portfolio;
• Preparation of high quality presentations and supporting analysis / insight for senior management (RBS Group Executive, CFO, Retail Leadership Team and Group Finance);
• Act as a point of contact for RBS CFO, Performance Management GM, and Group Finance in relation strategic transactions and investment spend;
• Answering ad hoc queries from the RBS CFO, Group Finance, RBS business and strategy;
• Build and maintain productive relationships with Finance and Non-Finance stakeholders including RBS Finance Teams, M&A, Treasury, Group Finance, Group Accounting Policy, RBS Strategy and RBS Risk Management;
• Help drive out productivity improvements across our key RBS processes;
• Support the co-ordination and management of financial controls across the Retail Bank;
• Actively contribute to process improvement, simplification and cross skilling across the RBS Business Performance team;
• Promote a customer-focused high performing team culture, including ongoing knowledge transfer of the drivers of the retail banking portfolio;
• Contribute to team culture and nurturing work environment;
• Risk Mindset –All CommBank employees are expected to proactively identify and understand, openly discuss and act on current and future risks