Description
Key Details
JOB TITLE: Assistant Finance Manager
SALARY: as per pay range
LOCATION: Newport/Cardiff
OTHER LOCATIONS: Bristol, Halifax, Manchester
HOURS: Full Time, 35 hours per week
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
The Transport business is undergoing a significant period of change supported by a strategic programme to migrate legacy customer platforms to new cloud based systems. At the same time the Transport industry is facing into significant economic and market challenges with the transition to ‘Electric’ and the recent uncertainty in the used car market.
Finance plays a vital role in helping the business achieve its goals, and our Transport Reporting and Development team is at the centre of this partnership. This is your chance to be part of an ambitious team where your contributions will make a significant impact!
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.
Day to day responsibilities
Fully own aspects of Financial Reporting: Including delivery of monthly financial results along with supporting analysis. In addition, will consult on inputs/assumptions with forecast activity.
Financial Control: Take responsibility for reconciliation and control activity of all owned P&L lines.
Develop Relationships: Build and maintain strong and effective working relationships with key collaborators across Transport and the wider Retail Finance community.
Support team activities: Contribute to development, learning and process improvement within the team, fostering culture of continuous improvement.
Invest in Personal Growth: Actively respond to individual and team objectives, by enhancing personal performance and growing your skills and capabilities.
What you’ll need
1. Ideally a qualified/part qualified Finance professional (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or qualified though experience.
2. Good attention to detail with strong analytical skills.
3. Strong stakeholder management skills and highly collaborative with the ability to work cross multiple finance teams.
4. A curious mindset with an eye for process improvement & automation opportunities.
5. Strong problem-solving skills, using experience to address critical risks/issues/dependencies as they arise and ensuring resolution within agreed timescales.
6. Demonstrate the right values and behaviours and encouraging this in team members.
And any experience of these would be really useful
7. Power Query/Power Bi
8. Ability to use/interrogate Oracle/Fusion
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:
9. A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
10. An annual performance-related bonus
11. Share schemes including free shares
12. Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
13. 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
14. 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.