Overview
This Fixed Term Contract role offers the chance to join the Group Finance Support (GFS) Retail Financial Control & Reporting team, partnering with Retail Transport to maintain a strong control environment that supports confident reporting. You will play an active role in the Transport team, directly managing assistant finance managers, modelling strong financial control behaviours, and working with senior partners to shape strategy through clear insight, sound guidance, and fresh thinking. You will lead the production of subsidiary financial statements, quarterly external reporting, and entity board reporting as part of the Legal Entity reporting delivery.
Responsibilities
* Lead and manage a team of 2 colleagues in Retail Transport Reporting & Control, ensuring timely, accurate daily, monthly, and quarterly reporting and strong financial controls.
* Lead delivery of key Transport subsidiaries statutory accounts, working closely with Retail partners and external auditors on financial accounting matters.
* Embed robust risk management and maintain a high-quality, no-surprises control environment, resolving issues quickly through effective collaboration.
* Champion continuous improvement, focusing on data quality and automation.
* Build strong partnerships to deliver accurate, insightful reporting for Group and subsidiary needs.
* Act as SME, supporting transformation and change initiatives in collaboration with Platform teams.
* Foster a development-focused culture, promoting continuous learning and contributing to wider team growth to ensure GFS is well placed to deliver now and for the future.
* Contribute to the organisation’s diversity, equity and inclusion goals and ensure an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive, learn and develop.
Qualifications
* Professional finance qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with post-qualification experience in financial control and statutory reporting. Knowledge and experience of Group reporting & control systems or other external financial software, and understanding of IFRS accounting standards.
* Experience leading the delivery of statutory accounts and understanding of Legal Entities.
* Strong risk management experience in financial control. For internal candidates, experience with LBG RSCA and SOX framework, with awareness of key risks facing LBG Finance.
* Behavioural: Passion for financial control and statutory reporting with drive, energy and a growth mindset; ability to lead by example and demonstrate values and behaviours.
* Experience in coaching and mentoring colleagues to perform at their best.
* Excellent communicator, able to influence and articulate complex issues at all levels, building collaborative, diverse relationships across the Group.
* Strategic problem solver with a passion for driving transformation and continuous improvement in Finance.
* Experience with Power Platform and/or automation tools is useful.
About Us
You’ll join Group Finance Support (GFS), a team of approximately 350 colleagues within the Finance Division, providing centralised support and expertise to the rest of Finance and the business. This role sits within the Retail Financial Control and Reporting team in Group Finance Support, partnering with Retail Transport to maintain a strong control environment that ensures confidence in reporting. You’ll have direct line management responsibility for 2 colleagues within the 18-person Transport team.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business shaping finance as a force for good. We are committed to building a values-led, inclusive culture and offering a wide range of benefits and development opportunities. We keep your data safe and will explain what we need and why during the recruitment process. We provide reasonable adjustments for applicants with disabilities and offer flexible working wherever possible.
We offer a wide-ranging benefits package, including:
* 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
* 30 days of holiday, with bank holidays on top
* A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
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