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SalaryThursday 28 March 2024
Salary Range
£26,980 - £28,400
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Job Description Summary
This is a 12 month fixed term contract opportunity.
Job Description
JOB TITLE: Finance Analyst
SALARY: £26,980 - £28,400
LOCATION: Edinburgh
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days a week) in our Edinburgh (New Uberior House) Office
About this opportunity
An exciting secondment opportunity has arisen in our Reporting & Controls (R&C) team, delivering Cost & Investment Reporting, although there is an expectation that the role will be flexible and support across the wider team, where demand requires.
Finance is key to that success by securing and building the financial strength and performance of the Bank. In the Centre of Excellence (CoE) we provide a service dedicated to enabling and serving Finance Business Partners, made up of three teams: the Planning and Analysis (P&A) team, the R&C team, and the Performance Improvement (PI) team.
Our ethos of Building The Best Team in Finance promotes a positive and empowered culture where you’ll enjoy a diverse, innovative, and exciting place to work!
What you'll be doing:
- Produce standard reporting and management information packs for both BAU & Investment cost base including Flash, Month End, Planning.
- Maintain a robust financial control framework including preparation of Month End Journals, Reconciliations and Reporting & Control
- Continuously promote and embed a culture of process improvement within the team, look for opportunities to further standardise, centralise and improve the reporting output
- Build and maintain regular contact and strong working relationships with key partners.
Team values are important to us, so we are looking for someone will want to get involved in wider team activities and craft the culture of the team
About us:
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:
- Good technical and numerical skills, including Microsoft Excel.
- Highly organized with a keen attention to detail and the ability to prioritise effectively in a fast-paced environment.
- Some prior exposure to process improvement activity.
- Competent user of Finance systems and software.
- A self- starter who can prioritise their work efficiently
- An adept communicator, with well-honed written, presentation and verbal communication skills
About working for us:
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.
We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
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.
And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.
We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
- Share schemes including free shares
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- 24 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.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
