Senior Manager – Financial Control & Reporting (9-Month FTC)

JOB TITLE: Senior Manager – Financial Control & Reporting (9-Month FTC)

SALARY: £83,411 - £98,130

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

At Lloyds Banking Group, we have a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper and to become the best Financial Services provider for our customers. Through our brands, our Group has a relationship with just about every household and community in the UK. We underpin the lives of millions of individuals and businesses and play a key role in helping to build a growing UK economy.

You’ll join us in Group Finance Support (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 is at the start of a significant Transformation journey, and you'll be part of influencing, designing and implementing Finance Transformation over the next 5 years, both within GFS and beyond!

You'll lead on particular projects within financial control and reporting for the Head of Finance Transactions, GCT & Investment. As a Senior Manager you’ll role model strong financial control behaviours; influence key senior partners and contribute to broader strategic direction and business decision making by providing insight, control and thought leadership.

Day to day your accountabilities will include:

• Establishing effective relationships with stakeholders and partners across GFS and Business finance teams, including presenting at senior level meetings and supporting strategic aims

• Leading project work to enhance and drive a strong financial control & risk framework across the team

• Leading project work to help shape the operating model within the team

• Leading project work to find opportunities to develop and implement automation and process improvements that strengthen our control framework and increase the effectiveness of our time and processes.

• Actively contribute to the GFS extended leadership team by driving activity on one of our people pillars.

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 (ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) or have alternatively gained a similar level of expertise acquired through substantial experience (c10 years) in a finance function

• 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 mentality

• Experience of leading and developing a team

• Strong background of delivery and driving continuous improvement against a constantly evolving landscape

• 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

• Ability to assess the impact of change on products, systems, processes and people.

It’s desirable that you have experience in power automate and/or power query or other automation tools where you have made effective process, control and cultural changes.

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!