Senior Manager - Retail Transport Financial Reporting & Control

JOB TITLE: Senior Manager - Retail Transport Financial Reporting & Control

SALARY: £83,411 - £98,130

LOCATION(S): Bristol

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 our office site.

About this opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity to join us in Group Finance Support (GFS), a key function within the Finance community of LBG. We’re a team of c.300 colleagues, with responsibilities including financial reporting and control, people and culture initiatives and strategy implementation.

You will lead and motivate a team of c.18 finance professionals, in the Retail & Insurance Financial Control & Reporting team, partnering with Retail Transport to deliver a robust control environment which gives confidence in reporting to your customers. In addition, you will have a key role to play in the delivery of Legal Entity reporting including responsibility for leading the production of subsidiary financial statements, quarterly external reporting and entity board reporting.

Day to day you’ll:

• Lead and develop the Retail Transport Reporting & Control team, leading and influencing the delivery into the key areas of activity across daily, monthly and quarterly control & reporting

• Responsible for ensuring robust risk management processes are embedded within the team, and provide a ‘no-surprises’, high quality Financial Control environment

• Own and be accountable in driving resolution of issues at pace, collaborating effectively across teams to get the best solution for LBG

• Lead delivery of Retail Transport subsidiary statutory accounts, liaising extensively with the Retail stakeholders and the Group’s external auditors and interpreting and implementing financial accounting matters

• Provide SME knowledge and collaborating with the Platform teams to support requirements & delivery of transformation and change programmes

• Drive an environment of continuous improvement, in particular through data improvement and the use of automation and AI tools

• Drive and positively influence key internal and external GFS partners including Divisional Finance senior stakeholders, Risk partners and our external auditor

• Lead a development focused team, demonstrating continuous learning and self-development together with an active contribution to the wider team

• As a key member of the GFS Senior Management team, drive the cultural change to ensure that GFS is well placed to deliver for now and for the future

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:

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA).

• Significant post qualification experience in financial control.

• Statutory accounting technical experience with delivery of statutory accounts.

• Strong risk and control understanding, including RSCA and SOX framework; with an awareness of the key risks facing LBG Finance.

• Leader with drive, energy and a growth mindset, who leads by example and has experience of line management and leading a team.

• Excellent communicator, able to influence and articulate complex issues at all levels across LBG, building strong diverse working relationships across different parts of the Group.

• Strategic thinker, with a passion for creating and driving future transformation and continuous improvement within Finance.

• Attract, inspire and lead a successful, diverse professional team actively managing performance to realise potential and retain talent.

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

• 30 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!