Assistant Manager - Retail Financial Control And Reporting

JOB TITLE: Assistant Manager - Retail Financial Control and Reporting

SALARY: £43,803 - £48,670

HOURS: Full time

LOCATION(S): Newport and Bristol

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 Lloyds Banking Group, 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.

You'll join us in Group Finance Support (GFS), a team of c350 colleagues within the Finance Division, providing centralised support and expertise to the rest of Finance and the Business.

This role sits within the Retail & Insurance Financial Control & Reporting team in GFS, who are responsible for the financial control and reporting of subsidiary legal entities within Lloyds Banking Group. Within this team we are largely responsible for Consumer Lending products including Credit cards, Personal Loans and Mortgage products.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and hardworking finance professional to support financial control and reporting activities for the monthly management and statutory reporting of Retail products, positively challenging current processes and encouraging a growth mindset across the team.

Key responsibilities:

• Preparing a large number and wide range of manual Retail product journals to support the Retail monthly financial reporting;

• Providing support to team managers, specifically when organising and planning Month end deliverables;

• Proactively identifying improvements to existing processes, systems and procedures, including taking the responsibility for the running of debrief meetings and supporting continuous improvement initiatives

• Supporting the wider team to perform the month end process, including the monthly balance sheet reconciliation and substantiation process, including ARC certification and supporting the assurance of the ledger at month end;

• Supporting resolution of control issues or balance sheet breaks;

• Ensuring that a legal entity lens is applied to financial control activity;

• Collaborating closely with a large number of internal teams including stakeholders in Retail Finance, other GFS teams, external auditors and other third parties; and

• Developing personal capabilities using existing formal and informal training opportunities.

About us

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.

What you’ll need

• Accountancy qualification/part qualified accountant or qualified by experience;

• Strong excel skills with experience of Financial systems and a curious mindset that will drive process improvements;

• Passion for Financial control;

• Strong stakeholder management;

• Team collaborator.

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 its forms. We’re committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.

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.

As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.

We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you’d like an adjustment to the recruitment process just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• 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

• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• 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!