Description
JOB TITLE: Finance Business Partner
SALARY: £65,385 - £72,650
LOCATION(S): Bristol & Edinburgh
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
This is an exciting opportunity to bring your experience to a finance business partner role to support and drive forward Business & Commercial Banking (BCB) and Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) business.
BCB serves the financial needs of small and medium sized businesses and CIB serves the needs of large clients who have a strong link to the UK, both driven by the Groups purpose of Helping Britain Proposer and ensuring Sustainability and Strategic objectives are delivered. The CB portfolio Business partnering team sits within the wider CB Finance Business partnering community of c.40 Finance Business partners.
The role will partner stakeholders across the BCB & CIB business and finance, providing financial support to business supporting Products, Segments, Investment and Portfolio management, working within a large and diverse business partnering community, supported by a senior manager.
Day to day you’ll
1. Build trusted relationships across business and finance
2. Build and lead regular and ad hoc financial performance updates, interpreting financials and challenging the business
3. Support the business in making strategic decisions around pricing, proposition and Investment
4. Learn in depth about the products we offer across BCB & CIB, needing to show curiosity to understand performance and build new analysis to help drive this forward
5. Forecasting and Planning to help set the direction of the business providing challenge to ensure we meet our financial commitments
6. Collaborate with the wider FBP community to support the BCB Growth Forum and CIB Finance Resource Meeting
7. Build an in depth knowledge on how a bank makes money, including Income, Costs, Capital and Funding & liquidity providing expert advice to the business
Why Lloyds Banking Group
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:
8. Proactivity to interpret performance and clearly communicate key stories and messages to the business
9. A curiosity to learn about the business, performance and our processes to deliver insight, control and courage to challenge
10. An ability to build trusted relationships with a variety of people and teams and work with those teams to support our purpose and goals
11. A desire to improve the way we do things
12. Growth mindset looking at consistently improving the way we operate and the value we add
13. Ability to challenge and influence senior stakeholders to drive business performance forward
And any experience of these would be really useful
14. Experience in Business partnering
15. Experience in Forecasting and Planning
16. Experience of working within a similar team or business.
17. A finance qualification is desirable
About working for us
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and 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 the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or 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:
18. A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
19. An annual performance-related bonus
20. Share schemes including free shares
21. Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
22. 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
23. A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch! We’d love to hear from you!
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.