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Our purpose is Helping Britain Prosper.
We have an important role to play in creating a more sustainable and inclusive future.
Lloyds Banking Group incorporates many household names.
As with all necessary struggles it’s often the actions of brilliant and tenacious individuals that create lasting change.
Charlie Nunn meets our clients at Newlyns Farm, to talk about the part they play in their local community.
Our colleagues' health and wellbeing is our number one priority.
Lloyds Banking Group and Crisis have announced that they are extending their partnership, in response to the clear societal need for more affordable homes across the UK.
Disclosures relating to our strategic, financial, operational, environmental and social performance.
Latest and archived results for Lloyds Banking Group and its main subsidiaries.
See all the key dates in the financial year.
Higher, more sustainable returns as we continue to Help Britain Prosper.
Information and key documents for the wide range of securities issued by Lloyds Banking Group and its entities.
Lloyds Banking Group is the first FTSE 100 company to implement Signly on its job search pages.
It's the alphabet that no child should have to learn.
If you want to bring your knowledge and skills to a truly transformative, widescale digital environment, we’d love to hear from you.
Xinyi is pioneering AI and advanced analytics at the Group alongside her part-time role as a concert pianist.
Lloyds Banking Group is best known for its portfolio of financial services brands.
JOB TITLE: Senior Pensions Lawyer - Group Corporate Treasury
LOCATION(S): London, Edinburgh, Bristol, Chester, Halifax, Leeds or Cardiff
HOURS: Full Time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which means spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.
Group Legal has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Pensions Lawyer to join the Group Corporate Treasury legal team on a secondment for 6 months. The role will support Group pensions matters and related transactions and require the delivery of high quality legal and strategic advice, guidance and support to a range of partners within the Group, operating as a senior SME, within a supportive and collegiate team.
We're a mix of capital markets and pensions senior lawyers and lawyers who share a common goal of providing insightful and strategic legal advice and innovative solutions. A friendly, open and lively team, we love to collaborate and pride ourselves on providing an excellent service. We partner with GCT business, Risk, People & Places and Legal & Secretariat colleagues to support matters which are core to the Group’s strategy. We’re an experienced and encouraging team, and there’ll be lots of opportunity to upskill.
You'll provide specialist legal support to GCT Pensions and People & Places. GCT manages the Group’s balance sheet and capital to support our Group strategy and P&P’s priority is making LBG a place where people love to work, so that we can keep supporting our customers and communities. The work we do has genuine breadth and variety. Examples of areas we support include:
Strategic and technical advice to senior management and executives across the various business areas of the Group dealing with Group pensions matters.
Negotiate with the Trustee advisers in relation to the schemes and external counsel in relation to corporate transactions and restructurings.
The Group’s governance processes in respect of decisions relating to the Group’s pension liabilities.
Pension documentation including pension scheme rules and supplementary deeds, scheme booklets, product terms, funding documentation, settlement agreements, correspondence with members, court documents.
Correspondence with the Pensions Regulator, the Pensions Ombudsman and the PRA.
Reviewing media and company related statements.
Corporate programmes/projects and products.
Pension-related disputes/complaints and litigation in conjunction with the Group's litigation specialists.
We ask you also to make a positive contribution to our people, culture, and strategy and to bring your energy and ideas to help us improve and future-proof our ways of working.
What we need from you!
You’ll need a current UK legal practicing certificate to qualify for this role, with ideally 5+ years’ PQE.
We're also looking for these key attributes:
Experienced in providing commercially focused advice on complex transactions and occupational pensions law, strategy and governance
Knowledge of the wider legal and regulatory environment, ideally with a good understanding of the regulatory landscape for occupational pension schemes
Comfortable navigating ambiguity, adept at prioritising in a fast-paced high impact environment, willing to be agile, resilient.
Builds effective relationships and partners collaboratively in and across teams; able to work independently.
Impactful communication and influencing skills; emotional intelligence; comfortable to speak up and challenge when needed.
Creativity, innovation, critical thinking, a “growth mindset” and passion to learn and broaden skills; self-aware, uses feedback to inform areas for development.
Demonstrates leadership skills or potential, our values and behaviours, promotes diversity and inclusivity and shares our Purpose.
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all 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. It’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
An annual discretionary performance-related bonus
Share schemes including free shares
Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
30 Days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
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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'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.