Description
JOB TITLE: Finance Business Partner
SALARY: £65,385 - £79,915
LOCATION: Bristol or Edinburgh
HOURS: Full time FTC
About this Opportunity
The team acts as trusted advisors to the Group Executive Functions areas including People & Places, Finance and Risk. In this role you will provide insight and analysis to support informed decision making and lead on budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting.
You will enjoy contributing to a diverse and inclusive team and growing in an innovative and dynamic work environment.
We are dedicated to ongoing personal and professional development, helping you to perform at your best and support you in fulfilling your future potential.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.
What you'll be doing
1. Driving development of and presenting insightful Management information with senior stakeholders, ensuring that results and issues are clearly explained and well understood and that follow up actions are clear.
2. Close collaboration with your business areas supporting and challenging the business, creating well-understood robust quarterly forecasts and 6 Year Operating Plans.
3. Horizon scanning for risks and opportunities.
4. Providing commercial and decision support on key projects and contractual commitments, acting as a trusted advisor.
5. Playing an active role in engaging with the COE teams, enhancing the flow of communication and the standards of inputs/outputs.
What you'll need
6. Experience in finance business partnering, influencing, and communicating financial insights.
7. Ability to interact with stakeholders at all levels across Finance and Business teams
8. Listening, joining the dots and summarising the story (across Investment & BAU costs and the resulting financial benefits)
9. Challenging constructively to support better quality outputs and outcomes (e.g. through finding better ways to communicate financial information)
10. Experience of supporting Change / Transformation including the cost impact of different technologies.
11. Strong drive for innovation and continuous improvement
12. Fully qualified accountant (preferable)
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.
We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
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.
And it’s why we especially welcome applications from underrepresented groups.
We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know
We also offer a wide ranging benefits package, which includes:
13. A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
14. An annual performance related bonus
15. Share schemes including free shares
16. Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
17. 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
18. 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.