Description
JOB TITLE: Software Asset Manager
SALARY: £39,825 – £44,250
LOCATION(S): Manchester or Leeds
HOURS: Full-time – 35 hours per week
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Manchester or Leeds office.
About this opportunity
We’re looking for a Software Asset Manager to join our dynamic Operations & Service Enablement team. This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in managing software assets across one of the UK’s largest financial institutions. You’ll help build and evolve the service, drive compliance and optimisation and grow your own expertise in an encouraging, forward-thinking environment.
What you’ll do
1. Building and delivering high-quality data and actionable insights to interested parties across the organisation who are accountable for software compliance, optimisation, and risk management.
2. Using Flexera One as the primary tool for software asset discovery, license tracking and reporting, supplemented by additional data sources when needed.
3. Integrating and employing data from the ServiceNow CMDB to ensure accuracy and completeness of software asset records.
4. Collaborating with teams in procurement, technology, and governance to help guide informed decision-making and future planning.
5. Contribute to audit readiness and support internal and external reviews with robust data and reporting.
6. Growing the breadth of software licence reporting scope and depth.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!
What you’ll need
Interest is sought from potential candidates already working in roles supporting software licence management and able to demonstrate the following:
7. Experience in software asset management, constructing and delivering actionable software licence reporting within a large enterprise environment.
8. Strong understanding of different software licensing models across server and client estates, Cloud and SaaS.
9. Hands-on experience with relevant tooling, ideally Flexera One and familiarity with ServiceNow CMDB.
10. Data compilation, analysis and reporting skills.
11. Strong communication and customer engagement capabilities.
12. A growth mindset with appetite to keep learning.
About working for us
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.
We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.
We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
13. A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
14. An annual performance-related bonus
15. Share schemes including free shares
16. Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
17. 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
18. A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.