Finance Manager

Key Details

JOB TITLE: Finance Manager – 12 month Fixed Term Contract

SALARY: as per pay range

LOCATION(S): 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

This fixed term contract role offers the chance to lead a team within Invoicing & Expenses, ensuring accurate reimbursements and driving process improvements across Finance. You’ll play a key part in delivering efficiencies and shaping change initiatives—are you ready to make an impact?

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 responsibilities

These include and aren’t limited to:-

Supporting colleagues with the reconciliation of bank and general ledger accounts.

Authorising journals for processing in core Finance systems.

Managing deliverables for the team to ensure allocated and completed in a timely manner to a high quality.

Ensuring service levels are met and tasks are completed on time and to our high standards with suppliers paid quickly.

Lead on change initiatives to ensure I&E continues to deliver excellent service to our customers.

Drive improvements to our processes.

Lead by example on utilising new technology and upskilling on skills for the future.

What you’ll need

• Qualified accountant (or qualified by experience) with strong financial and analytical expertise with a meticulous eye for detail, ensuring reconciliations and journal authorisations are accurate and compliant.

• Effective time management and organisational skills, consistently meeting deadlines and maintaining high standards of service for colleagues and suppliers.

• Proactive leadership and collaboration, inspiring the team, fostering a positive culture, and working closely with stakeholders to achieve shared goals.

• Customer-focused mindset, committed to delivering excellent service and handling ad hoc requests with professionalism and care.

• Change and improvement orientation, driving process enhancements and championing initiatives that deliver efficiency and innovation.

• Tech-savvy and future-ready, embracing new technologies, upskilling continuously, and encouraging others to develop skills for the future.

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

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