Product Control

Key Details

Job title: Product Controller: Finance - Commercial Banking

Location: Edinburgh Princes Exchange

Hours: Full time 35 hours per week

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

Lloyds Banking Group is the UK’s largest Digital, Retail and Commercial Bank with a focus on Helping Britain Prosper. Our Finance teams sit at the heart of the organisation. Group Finance Support (GFS) is a team of c600 colleagues within the Finance Division (c2600) with responsibility for the core platforms, processes, financial reporting and controls for Finance.

The role sits within the Product Control team; a control function responsible to produce the daily/weekly P&L across the suite of Commercial Banking and Treasury products.

Product Control is an agile and encouraging team with a desire to foster all its peoples development goals, via learning opportunities, knowledge sharing and cross training! You're expected to work effectively as part of the wider team, helping even out workload, collaborating to solve problems and sharing knowledge. There are always new issues to investigate and resolve, starting every single day with a desire to learn and improve is critical for success in this role.

We’re looking for a team player who is enthusiastic, keen to learn with an interest in financial markets and current affairs.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

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.
 

Day to day you’ll be involved in:

• Preparation of daily P&L production, reconciliations, signoffs and issue resolution.

• Supporting the month end close processes associated with accurately reporting and independently validating the bank’s balance sheet in a timely manner through the posting of journals and preparation of reconciliations.

• Preparation of analysis and in-depth commentary on P&L and balance sheet movements.

• Supporting a robust control framework for all processes within remit.

• Undertaking ad hoc work and investigation arising from partner requests.

• Supporting delivery of efficiencies and a culture of continuous improvement.

• Establishing and building relationships with partners.

What you’ll need:

• Qualified or part qualified accountant, or recently graduated from an accounting degree or similar.

• Knowledge of Financial Instruments.

• Relationship building and Stakeholder management

• Numerate and competent with MS Office applications especially Excel.

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Experience of working in Product/Financial Control or Audit

• Experience of SQL and Macros

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

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

Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today.