Head of Cost Control in London/Hybrid - National Employment Savings Trust (NEST)

London/Hybrid

£110,000

Permanent

Not Specified

37.5 Working Hours - (Flexible)

12 Dec 2025

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Role Overview

Reporting into the Director of Financial Control, this new role within the Finance Directorate will be responsible for cost management across the Corporation (expenditure within Nest Corporation associated with the Nest Scheme and the Trustee). The role will engage with stakeholders across the business, promoting budgetary control, cost synergies, value of money - helping to maximise outcomes for our members and meeting our Managing Public Money (MPM) obligations. The role will incorporate management and oversight of the accounts payable team (2-3) and cost control resource (1); and assume responsibility for operational tax matters i.e. PSA and VAT returns. The role will also have an element of change responsibility to implement new cost control related enhancements. A key responsibility is to ensure strong working relationships with strategic partners and all suppliers.

The minimum criteria for this role are:

› Proven experience as a Senior Cost Manager within the Financial Services industry.
› Good IT skills particularly with MS Office (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint etc.)
› Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret complex financial data and identify cost drivers.
› An attention to detail with strong organisation skills.
› People management skills, with proven experience in supporting the development of team members.

Don't worry if you think you don't have all the key skills, it might be worth taking the few minutes to apply as we're good at spotting potential and offer a generous training budget.

Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal attributes required for this role.

Flexible and agile working

Everyone's personal situation is different.

To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):

hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required)
reduce or vary working hours
reduce or vary the days worked
work compressed hours
job share

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Directorate/Department Overview

The Finance Directorate, led by the Chief Financial Officer and their leadership team, is made up of three distinct teams:

• Finance
• Commercial Management
• Procurement

Within the Finance team there are multiple disciplines including the core financial control activities, including cost control, for which this role would be responsible. It is an exciting time to join the Finance function as the CFO is looking to make a significant amount of change and enhancement in each of the areas but also looking for synergies and alignment across the Directorate.

Organisational Overview

Nest is an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country.

Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you’d expect to find in a thriving business. We’re committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, race, religion/belief, sex, sexual orientation or socio economic background.

We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.

Nest is a Disability Confident Leader, which is the highest level of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you have a disability, please declare that you’re applying through the scheme.

We aim to offer an interview to those applicants who apply through the Disability Confident Scheme and best meet the minimum criteria. However, there may be some circumstances where this is not possible due to the volume of applications.

Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications.

If you have any difficulty in sending your application or need the application pack in an alternative format, or you require any reasonable adjustments please contact: [email protected].

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