Finance Manager

JOB TITLE: Finance Manager

SALARY: £67,023 - £74,470

LOCATION(S): Bristol, Halifax or Leeds

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. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.

What you’ll be doing

We have a fantastic opportunity for a naturally curious and analytically minded individual to join Retail Finance, supporting the Branch Transformation programme.

The Branch Transformation Programme is a major, multi‑year strategic initiative focused on reshaping Lloyds Banking Group’s physical presence, cost base, and colleague deployment across the branch network. It is highly analytical, commercially significant, and deeply cross‑functional, drawing in Finance, Property, HR, Community Banking, Customer Engagement & COO teams. The programme also plays a central role in delivering benefits for the Group’s wider multi‑year operating plan.

This role will be front and centre of the programme, providing high-quality finance support to key stakeholders across the group. In this role you will be helping the business to model, shape and forecast the financial impacts of the programme; ensuring costs, benefits, operational changes and FTE impacts are accurately modelled, tracked & delivered.

This will involve partnering closely with finance, platform and operational teams by providing insightful & well considered analysis, enhancing forecast accuracy, and ensuring robust financial governance throughout programme delivery.

You will interact & influence a broad range of customers and will communicate directly with finance business partners & a large network of colleagues across the Retail business.

Why join us?

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.

What we’re looking for?

We're looking for someone who can learn subject matter expertise quickly, is driven, curious, and enjoys the challenge of working in a fast-paced environment.

Skills and Background that are important for this role are:

• High degree of numeracy and ability to understand, analyse and process complex data into a clear succinct story
• Proven delivery in strong analytical & modelling capabilities
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Consistent record of managing stakeholders, including preparation and delivery of high-quality analytical insight
• The ability to build strong relationships and demonstrate a passion for solving problems with technology and data
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Excel, PowerPoint) knowledge of Power BI would be advantageous
• 2+ years of relevant finance experience is beneficial

Desirable

• Having a financial qualification, or proactively working towards one, is considered helpful

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

This is a place for you:

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

Like what you hear? Join us!