Job Description
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Contract type: Permanent
Location: London
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Reporting to the RLAM CFO, this is a senior leadership role responsible for overseeing the delivery of statutory and regulatory financial reporting across the Royal London Asset Management (RLAM) group in the UK and internationally. The role ensures the effective execution of month-end accounting processes, maintains a robust financial control environment, and provides technical expertise and analytical insight on regulatory reporting, ICARA, and capital and liquidity matters.
Working closely with senior Finance stakeholders, you will play a key role in supporting Board and regulatory submissions, helping to ensure compliance and high-quality financial reporting across the business. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced finance professional to influence strategic decision-making and contribute to the continued strength and governance of RLAM's finance function.
About the role
- Lead the delivery of statutory and regulatory financial reporting across Royal London Asset Management’s UK and international legal entities, ensuring accuracy, compliance and timely submission.
- Own the end-to-end statutory accounts and external audit process, managing relationships with auditors and escalating significant issues to the CFO where appropriate.
- Oversee month-end close activities, ensuring financial reporting is delivered accurately, on time and within a robust financial control framework.
- Maintain and enhance the Finance risk and control environment, ensuring reconciliations, controls and supporting evidence are effective and compliant.
- Act as the Finance subject matter expert for regulatory reporting, coordinating prudential returns and providing technical guidance on evolving regulatory requirements.
- Support ICARA, capital and liquidity activities through the production of financial analysis, stress testing insights, management information and Board-level reporting.
- Lead, develop and inspire a high-performing Statutory & Regulatory Reporting team, fostering a strong control-focused culture and driving continuous improvement across the reporting function.
About you
- Fully qualified accountant (ACA preferable), with strong post‑qualification experience.
- Strong technical accounting capability, including UK GAAP and regulatory reporting within a regulated financial services environment.
- Background in audit or equivalent experience, providing a strong understanding of accounting standards, controls and assurance requirements.
- Solid working knowledge of FCA regulatory requirements, gained through experience within asset management or a comparable regulated sector.
- Experience supporting ICARA, capital or prudential processes, including financial analysis, modelling or regulatory disclosures.
- Proven experience leading and developing operational teams, with a track record of delivering high‑quality outcomes to demanding deadlines.
- Strong people leadership skills, with the ability to manage, motivate and develop teams to deliver high‑quality outcomes.
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About Royal London Asset Management
Royal London Asset Management (RLAM), part of the Royal London Group, is one of the UK's leading fund management companies working with a wide range of clients across the globe to achieve their investment goals. Our long-term, client-driven focus means that we have a long-standing commitment to responsible investment. We act as responsible stewards of our clients’ capital, exercising their rights and influencing positive change.
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.
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.
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Royal London is a purpose-driven mutual. Our Purpose, ‘Protecting today, investing in tomorrow. Together we are mutually responsible’, defines the impact we want to have. It shapes what we do on behalf of our members and customers, financial advisers, our colleagues and the communities in which we operate. Our People Promise is our collective commitment that our workplace will be inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling where all colleagues can thrive and experience a sense of belonging. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
Our inclusive values and people promise are core to who we are and how we work. It’s good for our people, and good for our customers too, because with an inclusive workplace and a diverse workforce we will reflect our members, customers and communities to deliver the best outcomes.
We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across our organisation. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected– whatever their background.
Workplace Initiatives
Program for parents returning to work after Parental Leave? |
No |
Leadership development programmes? |
Yes |
Mentoring programmes? |
Yes |
Coaching programmes? |
Yes |
Employee-led diversity networks? |
Yes |
Internal women’s networking groups? |
Yes |
Open to discussing flexible work arrangements at interview stage? |
Yes |
No. of weeks paid maternity leave at full salary: |
26 weeks (followed by 13 weeks half pay) |
Minimum weeks tenure required to be eligible for paid maternity leave: |
Open to all regardless of length of service |
No. of weeks paid paternity leave at full salary: |
4 weeks |
Minimum tenure required to be eligible for paid paternity leave: |
Open to all regardless of length of service |
Gender pay gap reporting information 2022: |
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Mean pay gap: |
35.3% |
Median pay gap: |
33.9% |
Mean bonus gap: |
70.4% |
Median bonus gap: |
48.5% |
Signatory of the UK Women in Finance Charter? |
Yes |
Targets to raise the number of women in leadership? |
Yes |
Targets to raise the number of BAME individuals in leadership? |
No |
Listed in the Bloomberg Diversity & Inclusion Index? |
No |
Graduate Programmes
We have a number of graduate programmes designed to deliver technical experts and future leaders.
Royal London Career Confidence programme
Our hybrid programme focuses on equipping you to feel empowered in your career and supported to explore new opportunities as they arise.
Apprenticeships
We offer a wide range of Apprenticeships that are targeted at both new joiners and existing colleagues.
Inclusion
We promote an inclusive culture at Royal London and have a range of inclusion networks for our colleagues to get involved with.
Our Women's Network is a community that celebrates and supports its members, helps everyone to learn more and inspires all of us to aim higher. Confidence and development are strong themes here and our events focus on three key areas of team working, finance, and wellbeing. There are two sub-groups to the Women’s Network – Women in Technology and our Periods and Menopause Group – focused on actions such as supporting over 20 new Periods and Menopause champions and launching guidance and training for leaders.