Description
JOB TITLE: Assistant Manager - Retail Financial Control and Reporting (12 FTC/Secondment)
SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £43,803 - £48,670
LOCATION: Halifax or Leeds
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
You'll join us in Group Finance Support (GFS), a team of c350 colleagues within the Finance Division, providing centralised support and expertise to the rest of Finance and the Business.
This role sits within the Retail & Insurance Financial Control & Reporting team in GFS, who are responsible for the financial control and reporting of subsidiary legal entities within Lloyds Banking Group. Within this team we are largely responsible for Consumer Relationship products including Savings, Current Accounts and Private Banking products.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and hardworking finance professional to support financial control and reporting activities for the monthly management and statutory reporting of Retail products, positively challenging current processes and encouraging a growth mindset across the team.
What will I be doing?
1. Preparing a large number and wide range of manual Retail product journals to support the Retail monthly financial reporting;
2. Providing support to team managers, specifically when organising and planning Month end deliverables;
3. The candidate requires strong excel skills and continuous improvement mindset;
4. Proactively identifying improvements to existing processes, systems and procedures, including taking the responsibility for the running of debrief meetings and supporting continuous improvement initiatives;
5. Supporting the wider team to perform the month end process, including the monthly balance sheet reconciliation and substantiation process, including ARC certification and supporting the assurance of the ledger at month end;
6. Supporting resolution of control issues or balance sheet breaks;
7. Ensuring that a legal entity lens is applied to financial control activity;
8. Collaborating closely with a large number of internal teams including stakeholders in Retail Finance, other GFS teams, external auditors and other third parties; and
9. Developing personal capabilities using existing formal and informal training opportunities.
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
10. Accountancy qualification/part qualified accountant or qualified by experience;
11. Strong excel skills with experience of Financial systems and a curious mindset that will drive process improvements;
12. Passion for Financial control;
13. Team collaborator with strong stakeholder management;
14. Risk and control understanding, including LBG RSCA and SOX framework knowledge advantageous;
15. Desire to consistently improve the control environment through use of automation and AI tools.
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:
16. A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
17. An annual performance related bonus
18. Share schemes including free shares
19. Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
20. 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
21. 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.