GFS Retail Transport Control & Reporting Assistant Manager

Key Details

JOB TITLE: Assistant Manager, Retail Transport Financial Reporting and Control - Fixed Term Contract until November 2026

SALARY: as per pay range

LOCATION(S): Bristol Harbourside

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

Are you enthusiastic to make a significant impact and drive positive change in our Retail Financial Control & Reporting team?

We’re looking for a positive and hardworking person to support our Transport team of c18 colleagues. The role involves daily financial control activity, month end controls, and supporting change initiatives.

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.

Day to day responsibilities

Your role will be varied, and no two days will look quite the same; but some of your key priorities in this role include:

Active involvement in financial control activity to support Retail Entity and Group Reporting: Taking ownership of tasks and deliverables to support timely and controlled Month End close activity. Demonstrate diligence in preparation and review of work, not being afraid to challenge or question inputs or outputs.

Delivery at Pace: Implementing processes that break down work to deliver value more quickly and frequently. Embracing a problem-solving mindset with the curiosity to explore and challenge existing processes.

Innovation: Challenge the status quo to improve the way we do things. Embrace culture of continuous learning. Find opportunities for innovation and technology to improve processes utilising experience in using new technologies; discovering how time can be reinvested in benefiting from change. Ability to advocate and bring new ideas within a diverse team.

Governance and Risk: Prompt escalation of risks and issues providing support to manager to mitigate the impacts of risks. Demonstrate resilience and take ownership and accountability when issues occur. Challenge what and why and show curiosity about the end to end and wider context.

Collaboration and Communication: Proactive engagement with other collaborators across the Group for seamless integration of financial processes with the broader change management initiatives. Opportunity for people management, managing a small team.

What you’ll need

We welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds, and we celebrate diversity in thought and experience.Here’s the minimum we’re looking for in your CV, to be considered for this role.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree or relevant experience in Finance or Accounting, alongside a recognised accounting qualification (e.g., ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or moving towards achieving it.

Technical skills & experience:

• Finance experience: Established experience in a related finance role, preferably within the Retail finance sector.

• Strong technical proficiency: Strong technical competence, particularly in financial software and Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel and Oracle.

Behavioural skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills: Capable of interpreting large and complex financial data.

• Communication skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, adept at building relationships with collaborators at all levels.

• Diligence: Strong attention to detail, organised and a dedication to accuracy in financial reporting.

• Pro-activeness & continuous improvement: Self-motivated and a desire to improve existing processes, systems, and procedures through continuously challenging what we do and how we do it. A willingness to learn new skills is essential in the role.

• Integrity: High ethical standards and a commitment to maintaining confidentiality and integrity in all financial matters.

And any experience of these would be really useful

Power BI, Power Automate, Python, GCP, R, Co-pilot.

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 for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.