Planning and Assurance Analyst
| Posting date: | 23 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £30,000 to £43,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 August 2025 |
| Location: | Manchester, Greater Manchester, M4 4EP |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 1 day per week |
| Company: | The Co-operative Bank |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 030622_1753268014 |
Summary
Planning & Assurance Analyst
Manchester - Hybrid 1 day a week in the office
Salary - £34,000 - 43,000 Full time - 35 hours Closing Date - 06/08/2025 Want to change the world? Choose a career that makes a difference At The Co-operative Bank we're proud to be different. We're proud of our values and ethics, and our unique, customer-led Ethical Policy that shapes everything we do. Born out of the co-operative movement over 150 years ago, you could say that doing the right thing has always been our thing. We don't just help people with their money, but help people fight for justice and the causes they care about. We put people at the heart of every decision we make and there's never been a more important time for our Bank to stand up for the causes that matter most to our customers, colleagues and partner organisations. Join us and help us continue to make progress in environmental and societal change, all with the UK's original ethical bank. We promote a hybrid working environment, which means you will work at our office in Manchester roughly once a week and then remotely from home. To enable you to work from home, you will need have a suitable office set up which includes a desk and a chair in a location which is free from the interruptions of day-to-day life. The Role: The position of Planning & Assurance Analyst is a key role within the COO function, to support the Bank's Change Investment Portfolio. The role will report directly to the Portfolio Manager in the COO function, and will have pan-Bank accountability, requiring excellent stakeholder management at all levels. You will create, enhance and continuously improve the Bank Change Methodology (BCM) and associated processes, embedding best practice across COO and Bank wide. You will undertake analysis into MI produced by the projects and programmes across the Portfolio and produce reports into the relevant governance meetings and to the Regulators. Key Accountabilities:
Salary - £34,000 - 43,000 Full time - 35 hours Closing Date - 06/08/2025 Want to change the world? Choose a career that makes a difference At The Co-operative Bank we're proud to be different. We're proud of our values and ethics, and our unique, customer-led Ethical Policy that shapes everything we do. Born out of the co-operative movement over 150 years ago, you could say that doing the right thing has always been our thing. We don't just help people with their money, but help people fight for justice and the causes they care about. We put people at the heart of every decision we make and there's never been a more important time for our Bank to stand up for the causes that matter most to our customers, colleagues and partner organisations. Join us and help us continue to make progress in environmental and societal change, all with the UK's original ethical bank. We promote a hybrid working environment, which means you will work at our office in Manchester roughly once a week and then remotely from home. To enable you to work from home, you will need have a suitable office set up which includes a desk and a chair in a location which is free from the interruptions of day-to-day life. The Role: The position of Planning & Assurance Analyst is a key role within the COO function, to support the Bank's Change Investment Portfolio. The role will report directly to the Portfolio Manager in the COO function, and will have pan-Bank accountability, requiring excellent stakeholder management at all levels. You will create, enhance and continuously improve the Bank Change Methodology (BCM) and associated processes, embedding best practice across COO and Bank wide. You will undertake analysis into MI produced by the projects and programmes across the Portfolio and produce reports into the relevant governance meetings and to the Regulators. Key Accountabilities:
- Drive improvements and maintenance of the Bank Change methodologies (agile & waterfall) through continuous improvement activity, workshop facilitation and process optimisation to enable the embedding of refreshed documentation and ways of working.
- Support the creation of Board & ExCo submissions on a monthly, quarterly & yearly basis
- Support the risk management activities and reporting
- Excellent experience of a range of Change methodologies and delivery approaches including Prince 2, Agile and Scrum.
- Excellent analytical skills and ability to assimilate, interpret and then communicate information from many different sources.
- Excellent written and communication skills with proven ability to define and adapt new and existing processes and documentation/templates/ process maps etc.
- Proven presentation skills, both written and verbal to senior level audiences
- Highly organised, with an acute attention to detail
- Good understanding of project controls and standards within the risk management framework
- Good understanding of Business strategy, design and planning, desirable
- Highly motivated with proven ability to work both as part of a team and independently as required.
- Advanced skills in MS office applications - Word, PowerPoint, Excel, MSProject.
- SQL and / or VBA skills an advantage
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