Description
1. JOB TITLE: Junior Product Controller
2. SALARY: £29,460
3. LOCATION(S): Edinburgh – Uberior House
4. HOURS: Full-time
5. 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
Lloyds Banking Group is the UK’s largest Digital, Retail and Commercial Bank with a focus on Helping Britain Recover. Our Finance teams sit at the heart of the organisation. Group Finance Support (GFS) is a team of c600 colleagues within the Finance Division (c2600) with responsibility for the core platforms, processes, financial reporting and controls for Finance. It also supports the Finance through provision of Divisional responsibilities, People & Culture initiatives, Systems & Data capabilities and Strategy development.
Product Control
The Product Control team is a control function responsible for the production of the daily/weekly P&L across the suite of Commercial Banking and Treasury products. This includes providing analysis of the P&L at the appropriate level of granularity, ensuring rigorous controls are in place around the completeness, accuracy and presentation of reserves.
Product Control is a team culture and you're expected to work effectively as part of the wider team, helping even out workload, collaborating to solve problems and sharing knowledge. There are always new issues to investigate and resolve, starting every single day with a desire to learn and improve is critical for success in role.
This is an exciting opportunity within Product Control. You’ll become a member of the Trading Book team, an agile and supportive team with a desire to further all of its colleagues development goals, via learning opportunities, knowledge sharing and cross training. The successful candidate will be actively involved in managing the day to day operation of the team, particularly the daily P&L and monthly deliverables and adhoc project work.
Overview of the role
6. May have or be keen to commence studying towards a professional finance qualification
7. Develop an understanding of relevant business systems, along with practical understanding of financial systems and processes
8. Ability to use and manipulate spread sheets, produce formatted charts and use sophisticated formulae and pivot tables
9. Customer focus in line with SLA
10. Develop or have an awareness of market and industry environment (commercial awareness)
11. Ability to plan, coordinate and prioritise workload
12. Good interpersonal skills
13. Presentation skills
14. Ability to implement change
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.
Who are we looking for
A hard working Team player who is enthusiastic and keen learn with an interest in financial markets and current affairs.
15. Recently graduated with a qualification in Finance, Accounting, Math, Science or IT.
16. Actively demonstrate core Lloyds Banking Group values and behaviours
17. Support the implementation of robust processes aligned to business objectives, recommending improvements where appropriate. Minimising operational risks using judgement to determine where issues require partner concern
18. Establish and build relationships with partners to support the provision of quality and timely information and analysis to advise business decisions
19. Participate in Resource Sharing, demonstrating collaboration and teamwork across the department, support and drive continuous improvement in behaviours and processes
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 performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
•24 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
This is a once in a career opportunity to help shape your future as well as ours.
Join us and grow with purpose.
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.