Finance Manager

JOB TITLE: Finance Manager

SALARY: £65,385 - £72,650

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh

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

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

This role sits within the Transaction Support team in Group Finance Support (Reports into the Head of Finance) who are responsible for the implementation of significant and complex transactions.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and hardworking candidate to lead a small team looking after a portfolio of entities within the LBG investments division.

Day to day you’ll:

• Build out and implementation of a model to govern and control transactions across GFS for retail, commercial, Insurance & CGT transactions.

• Managing stakeholder relationships across a wide range of finance, operations and business partnering teams.

• Reviewing complex accounting opinions and performing impact assessments for the Impairments, Regulatory Reporting and Group Finance Support teams.

• Managing the GMS9 preparation and sign off for significant and complex transactions.

• Taking ownership of the control environment for the end-to-end transaction including documentation of the risks and controls.

• Developing personal capabilities using existing formal and informal training opportunities, while also coaching others as the need arises.

• Proactively identifying improvements to existing processes, systems and procedures, including the running of post implementation review meetings and driving continuous improvement initiatives.

• Leading and coaching colleagues.

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:

• A qualified accountant, preferably with experience of financial control and reporting and transactions. 

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

• Passion for Financial control and reporting and questioning mindset.

• A leader with drive, energy and a growth mindset, who leads by example.

• Strong background of delivery and driving continuous improvement with a focus on automation solutions and driving innovation.

• Proven ability to build, influence, and maintain effective cross-functional relationships.

• Able to plan ahead and organises work in a systematic and organised way to ensure that personal, team and functional objectives are achieved

• Bring a problem-solving approach with the ability to challenge and constructively debate key issues.

• Works collaboratively with a diverse group of partners, utilising well-developed relationship skills.

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Experience of regulatory reporting or impairments would be advantageous.

• Experience of capital optimisation transactions such as synthetic risk transfers, asset backed securitisations and capital issuances would be advantageous.

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

• 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!