Description
JOB TITLE: Finance Chief Control OfficeManager
SALARY: £67,023 - £74,470
LOCATIONS: Edinburgh, Bristol
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. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.
Whatyou’llbe doing
This role sits within the Finance Chief Control Office (FCCO) and plays a key part in strengthening the non‑financial risk and control environment across Group Finance. The FCCO provides specialist risk and controlexpertise, enabling Finance to manage risk effectively, meet regulatory expectations, and deliver its strategicobjectivessafely.
You’llpartner with our Group Finance colleagues, providingexpertiseto implement our risk strategy and ensure management can effectively discharge their accountabilities.
There are alwaysnew issuesto investigate and resolve, starting every single day with a desire to learn and improve is critical for success in role.
Day to dayyou’llbe:
1. Partnering with key Finance stakeholders to oversight and challenge the Finance risk and control environment.
2. Supporting the review & challenge of the Finance risk and control environment, ensuring alignment to Group frameworks, policies, and risk appetite.
3. Critically reviewing and challenging the Finance Risk Profile, including risks, controls, issues, and action plans.
4. Managing relationships with risk and control owner teams and acting as their risk and control business partner
5. Providing guidance, review and challenge to process and control owners in the application of the Risk Management framework for the Finance teams.
6. Leveraging insights andexpertiseto help risk and control owners to improve the control environment
7. Provide input to governance and committee reporting, including clear articulation of risk themes, emerging issues, and areas requiring management action.
Why join us?
We’reinvesting billions in our people,placesand tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers.We’regrowing, andwe’dlove you to be part of the journey.
Whatwe’relooking for?
8. Finance risk and control awareness of Operational (Non-Financial) risk categories across accounting processes and systems, with the skills to challenge risk and control owners on the end-to-end management of risk.
9. Understanding of how Risk Management framework interlocks with Group Policy requirements in the context of Finance operationally, or candemonstratewhere this experience has been held within a similar function / business area
10. Understanding of control management and the practical implementation across relevant business area with a record of leading control design, optimisation, automation,testingand monitoring activities.
11. Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet sharedobjectivesat pace - working effectively with all other lines of defence and understands the different but complimentary roles.
12. Experience with Power Apps, or a strong willingness and aptitude to learn.
And any experience of these would be great
13. Professional Finance qualification – ICAS (or equivalent), ACCA or CIMA
We know thatgreat talentcomes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.
This is a place for you:
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, andwe’recommitted to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive,learnand 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 theminimumcriteria for the role with a disability, long-termhealthor 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:
14. A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
15. An annual performance-related bonus
16. Share schemes including free shares
17. Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
18. 30days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
19. A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Ready to do the best work of your career? Apply today.
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.