Description
JOB TITLE: Assistant Finance Manager - Commercial Banking Control and Reporting (12-Month FTC)
SALARY: £43,803 - £48,670
LOCATION(S): 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
At LBG, we have a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper and to become the best Financial Services provider for our customers. Through our brands, our Group has a relationship with just about every household and community in the UK. We underpin the lives of millions of individuals and businesses and play a key role in helping to build a growing UK economy.
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.
This role sits within the Commercial Banking Financial Control and Reporting team within Group Finance Support, who are responsible for financial control activity for the Commercial Banking division (“CB”) such as income recognition, reconciliation and substantiation of financial data, guardianship of the ledger and ensuring risks are appropriately recorded, escalated and resolved.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and hardworking candidate to support the Finance Manager in leading a Finance team responsible for ensuring the ledger is complete and accurate for Core Commercial Lending & Deposit platforms. Involves both preparation and review of month end journals, balance sheet substantiation preparation and regular interaction with Finance Business Partners, production of management reporting and other financial control processes.
Day to day you’ll be:
1. Overseeing Finance Analysts who perform daily control and review activity
2. Supporting the Finance Manager with meeting key deliverables and ensuring the ledger is complete and accurate, reducing key person dependencies as well as driving forward resolution of issues.
3. Contribute to Governance, Legal Entity & Risk packs, with a focus on strengthening controls to mitigate risks and reviewing these regularly.
4. Collaborating closely with a large number of internal teams including; other GFS teams and the CB Finance business partner teams (based primarily in London and Bristol). In addition there may be a requirement to liaise with Accounting Policy, Divisional Business and Operations teams, Finance Platform colleagues, internal and external auditors when required.
5. Appropriate involvement in adhoc projects relevant to the Commercial Banking Division
6. A willingness to cross-cover and support other sub teams and confidently deputise for the Finance Manager where required.
7. Coaching and supporting junior colleagues.
8. Developing personal capabilities using existing formal and informal training opportunities, while also coaching others as the need arises.
9. Proactively identifying improvements to existing processes, systems and procedures, including the running of debrief meetings and driving continuous improvement initiatives.
10. Significant contribution to the eventual successful adoption of the new Oracle ledger through regular engagement with Finance Platform, and other Change teams to ensure that Financial Control matters are considered.
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
11. Accountancy qualification – ICAS (or equivalent), ACCA or CIMA
12. Passion for Financial control and a curious mindset
13. Good analytical skills
14. Good stakeholder management skills
15. Confidence to challenge
16. Desire to embrace and emulate LBG’s ethos
Any experience of these would be beneficial but not essential
17. Financial services experience
18. Strong risk awareness
19. LBG systems knowledge
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:
20. A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
21. An annual performance-related bonus
22. Share schemes including free shares
23. Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
24. 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
25. 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.