Description
JOB TITLE: Strategic Finance & Workforce Planning Assistant Manager
SALARY: The salary banding is £39,825 - £44,250
LOCATION: Halifax, Newport/Cardiff, Birmingham, Chester, Manchester
HOURS: 35 hours, full time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.
About this opportunity
Become part of a new and exciting team dedicated to shaping the future of Consumer Lending.
This role supports financial and workforce planning activities across the Consumer Lending business, with a focus on data analysis, reporting, and operational execution. You’ll work closely with the rest of the Finance & Workforce Planning team to ensure accurate data insights and reporting that enable informed decision-making and strategic alignment.
What will I be doing?
1. Create, maintain and update workforce data reporting and dashboards using tools such as Power BI, which will enable regular CL finance and workforce governance forums.
2. Assist in financial planning cycles for CL business areas, including FTE tracking and cost reporting.
3. Support recruitment governance processes and ensure data accuracy in workforce systems.
4. Collaborate with Finance and People teams to monitor workforce trends.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.
What you’ll need
5. Strong analytical skills with experience in data reporting and visualisation.
6. Proficiency in Power BI and other reporting tools (e.g., Excel, Workday, Oracle).
7. Ability to interpret workforce and financial data and present findings clearly.
8. Strong attention to detail and organisational skills.
9. Comfortable working in a hybrid environment and collaborating across teams.
Desirable Experience
10. Experience in financial services or regulated industries.
11. Exposure to strategic planning cycles (e.g., 4YOP, 6YOP).
12. Understanding of job architecture, skills taxonomy, or talent analytics.
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 underrepresented 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:
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. 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
18. 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.