End Date
Friday 31 May 2024
Salary Range
£62,874 - £69,860
We support flexible working - click here for more information on flexible working options
Flexible Working Options
Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description Summary
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Insurance Accounting SME (Insurance Reporting feature team)
SALARY: £62,874 - £69,860
LOCATION: Bristol
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days a week) in our Bristol office
About this opportunity:
Lloyds Banking Group is the UK’s largest Digital, Retail and Commercial Bank with a focus on Helping Britain Prosper. Our Finance teams sit at the heart of the organisation. The Finance Platform is a team of c1000 colleagues within the wider Finance Division (c2,600) with responsibility for the core platforms, processes, financial reporting, controls, and transformation for Finance. It also supports Finance through provision of Divisional responsibilities, People & Culture initiatives, Systems & Data capabilities, and Strategy development.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated individual to join the Accounting and Statutory Reporting - Insurance Reporting feature team. The core purpose of the feature team is to support IP&I Finance in developing, enhancing and maintaining a robust, efficient and effectively controlled financial & regulatory reporting environment. To achieve this the team requires to rapidly develop a thorough understanding of the end to end data journey, processes and controls, from source system to reporting outputs. The candidate will be responsible for a range of challenging initiatives to ensure that we deliver customer value through excellence and execution.
The journey to new ways of working across the entirety of LBG has commenced through the Platform 2.0 transition programme. In the immediate future all change will be delivered using Agile practices and principles. Additionally, the Accounting & Statutory Reporting Lab is a dynamic lab with agile ways of working already at the heart of everything we do. As such it is essential to the role that the candidate has either Agile experience or brings with them the ability and desire to learn and adapt at pace.
This role is based in our Bristol hub. As we work in a hybrid way with 2 days per week from the office and from home the rest of the time, we encourage applications from any colleagues if they are prepared to travel.
About us:
If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.
What you’ll need:
Essential:
* Strong analytical and problem solving skills, with the ability to collect, organise, analyse, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.
* Experienced in financial reporting processes and controls, preferably with an insurance background and of IP&I systems.
* Ability to identify underlying business processes critical to e2e reporting data journey and to challenge existing practices to ensure that the processes adequately address the any defined business problem.
* A strong communicator, capable of delivering clear messages to a variety of partners and teams providing clear understanding for colleagues, both verbally and in writing.
* A multifaceted and adaptable self-starter who will, with exposure to financial and operational control frameworks and practices, help to identify meaningful information and challenge the business to understand outcomes that are required to realise the customer and business propositions.
Desirable:
* A flexible approach and a desire to learn and develop themselves both technically and in ways of working.
* A well-developed analysis & communication kit bag.
* A natural facilitator, negotiator and decision-maker, collaborating across all teams within the Lab.
* Ability to influence positively - demonstrating similar values and behaviours to our Group's and encouraging this in team members and across the analysis community.
* Proven track record in effectively delivering independently.
* Experience in business process mapping.
* Risk & Controls experience.
* Proficiency in using Confluence.
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.
We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
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.
And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.
We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
* A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
* An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
* Share schemes including free shares
* Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
* 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
* A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.
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.
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