Senior Manager Finance Business Partner

JOB TITLE:  Senior Manager Finance Business Partner 

SALARY: £85,493 - £100,580 

LOCATION(S): Leeds, Edinburgh, Halifax, Newport 

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. 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 
This role involves serving as a trusted Finance Partner to Lloyds Banking Group’s Retail business. It includes offering commercial insight, constructive challenge, and clear financial storytelling to help the division deliver its objectives efficiently and effectively for customers. 

Collaborating closely with senior partners, develop and lead the direction of financial and commercial performance. Translate complex cost data and management information into meaningful insights, clear risks and opportunities, and actionable recommendations. 

Contribute to setting and delivering business goals by providing high-quality decision support, proactive analysis, and robust forecasting across quarterly, monthly, and longer-term planning cycles. Continuously improve cost insight and promote opportunities for greater efficiency. 

As a Finance representative on central initiatives, you will support investment decisions, ensure benefits are clearly defined and tracked, and maintain alignment between objectives, outcomes, and payback. 

Throughout the role, collaboration across teams is essential, providing constructive feedback to the business and exemplifying Lloyds Banking Group’s values and behaviours. This supports the organisation’s fast adaptation and transformation in response to evolving customer needs. 

Why join us? 

If you think all banks are the same, you’re wrong. We’re a pioneering, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. If you’re after a role where you can have an impact and do the best work of your career, you’ve just found it.  
 

What we’re looking for? 

• Over 8 years of experience in Finance Business Partnering or an equivalent role, with skills to influence and support business goals. Contributions include cost management, preparing cases for decisions, and financial reporting. 

• Strong collaborator skills, building effective relationships across Retail Banking, Retail and Group Finance and wider partners. 

• Commercial and analytical capability, using good judgement to understand the financial and economic impact of decisions. 

• Confidence working with multiple data sources and tools such as Excel and Power BI, turning data into clear insight. 

• A curious, growth focused approach, comfortable with change, taking ownership and working collaboratively. 

• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to make complex information easy to understand. 

• A proactive approach to development, aligned with our belief in developing ourselves to deliver better. 

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 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 

Ready for a career where you’ll learn and thrive? Apply today and find out more.