Head of Retail, Insurance Control & Reporting

JOB TITLE: Head of Retail, Insurance Control & Reporting

SALARY: £115,000 - £140,000

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 one of our office sites

About this opportunity

This exciting role offers the opportunity to lead, build and motivate a team of c.60 finance professionals in the Retail & Insurance Financial Control and Reporting Team, partnering with Retail and Insurance Finance to deliver a robust control environment which gives confidence in reporting to your stakeholders.

You’ll join us in Group Finance Support (part of 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.

The team are in the middle of a significant Transformation journey and you will be part of influencing, designing and implementing Finance Transformation over the next few years, both within Group Finance Support and beyond!

Day to day, you will:

• Drive and positively influence key internal and external partners including Divisional Finance Directors, Risk Partners and our external auditors

• Provide challenge, insight and decision support to the Retail and Insurance Finance teams to improve business controls and performance

• Responsible for ensuring robust risk management processes, including SOX and Risk OpenPages, 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 the team to support Transformation, including leading and influencing the design and delivery into the key areas of activity

• Build, lead and develop a successful professional, resilient and driven Finance team.

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

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

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.

What you’ll need:

• Experienced leader with drive, energy and a growth mindset, who leads by example and has experience of leading a large team

• Qualified finance professional with significant post qualification experience in control and management and statutory reporting

• Strong Risk and Control understanding, including LBG Risk OpenPages and SOX framework; with an awareness of the key risks facing LBG Finance

• 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 and high performing team actively managing performance to realise potential and retain talent.

• Qualified finance professional with significant post qualification experience in control and management and statutory reporting

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

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

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.