Finance Assistant - Jersey or Isle of Man

• JOB TITLE: Finance Assistant
• SALARY: £30,609 to 38,257
• LOCATION(S): Jersey or Isle of Man
• 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 one of our office sites.

About this Opportunity

With more than 250 years of history behind it Lloyds Banking Group is important to Britain and a major employer on Jersey and Isle of Man. 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.

This is an excellent opportunity to make a difference and join our Crown Dependencies Finance team. Our team is responsible for financial control and regulatory reporting across a number of banking platforms and business areas and your day will be varied and challenging.

This role is based in either the Isle of Man or Jersey, Channel Islands and cannot be carried out from another location (although working from home within the Islands is supported). Due to local employment regulations 5 years residency in Jersey or Isle of Man is required.

As a Finance Assistant within our financial control team you will be responsible for supporting the whole team in the end to end production of a range of deliverables, conducting critical oversight and control processes over a core banking platform and providing detailed analysis and reports. You’ll be working closely alongside other financial control and regulatory reporting colleagues.

This role is an ideal opportunity for an ambitious and well organised candidate looking for a first role in Finance. Full training will be given. It is a great opportunity to learn about how a finance team works within a large organisation.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

Key capabilities

•            Quality focus: The ability to produce work of high quality with sharp attention for detail.

• Data Analytics: Analyse operational data to identify trends, support decision-making, and improve processes.

• Team Collaboration: Comfortable working within a team to meet our delivery targets and resolve operational challenges.

• Adaptability: Ability to learn and apply concepts quickly.

•            Excel Expertise: Proficiency in Excel, including use of formulas and pivot tables.

Key accountabilities

Provide dedicated support to department managers to enable effective operation of the department responsibilities:

•            Check and authorise system transactions

•            Performance of daily source system reconciliations

•            Validation checking of daily source system automated reports

•            Production of daily monitoring reports

•            Review, analysis and posting of daily accounting movements

•            Monitoring ledger accounts for inconsistencies, logging queries and producing corrections

•            Assist in completion of department administration including the updating team checklists and resource planners

 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 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 under-represented 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

• 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

•22 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready to start growing with purpose?

Apply today.