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SalaryWednesday 27 March 2024
Salary Range
£62,874 - £69,860
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Job Description Summary
This is a 12 month fixed term contract opportunity.
Job Description
JOB TITLE: Manager, Group Planning & Reporting
SALARY: £61,641 - £68,490
LOCATION: Edinburgh
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days a week) in our Edinburgh site.
This is an exciting and challenging role for a high calibre individual, providing the opportunity to gain a unique insight into LBG Group results. This will encompass the delivery of monthly and quarterly management reporting for LBG and it’s related sub-groups, playing a key role in external messaging and market guidance. A key focus of the role will be to analyse Group results and to provide insight to senior management on performance against forecast, providing an opportunity to influence Group decision-making.
Central Finance is a Finance Partner for the Group and operates at the heart of the finance community providing analysis, insight, strategic direction and control to a range of senior stakeholders. It is an excellent opportunity for colleagues to challenge and stretch themselves, personally driving and shaping the function, and to ensure that LBG, as an organisation, continues to progress towards its strategic aims.
Within Central Finance, The Group Planning and Reporting team is responsible for producing the Group’s key financial results including the regular management results, the quarterly forecasts, and the annual budget and 4 year operating plan. In addition the team is responsible for providing support to the Group Chief Executive and Chief Financial Officer in the presentation of the Group’s results, internally and externally.
The team is key to ensuring high quality outputs and leads the development of the Group’s reporting processes. The timely and accurate provision of this information, together with insightful analysis of business performance, to senior executives, Group Executive Committee and Board, facilitates decision making and control across the Group.
Our team promotes a positive, empowered culture. You’ll enjoy contributing to a diverse and inclusive team and thriving in an innovative and exciting work environment!
What would you get involved in?
Evaluating and developing a deep understanding of drivers behind divisional and Group results. You'll support us with:
- Insight and analysis of key Group metrics including return on tangible equity, tangible net asset value, below the line reporting and economic value add reporting.
- Development of sub-group legal entity reporting and collaboration with the planning team to improve understanding of legal entity results.
- External results communication including market messaging through Q&A.
- Month-end actuals reporting to the GEC and LBG Board.
- Assist in Finance transformation programmes and the implementation of Oracle Fusion.
- Ad hoc and deep dive analysis on results.
This will involve:
- Preparation of reporting packs and ad hoc analysis to support Senior Group stakeholders including GEC and LBG Board.
- Understanding and effective communication of LBG Results from Divisional, Legal Entity and LBG Group perspective.
- Building trusted relationships across divisional and central teams.
- Use of Planning Analytics tool.
- Supporting the Group’s transformation workstreams, including the implementation of Oracle Fusion ledgers to support Group management reporting.
- Contribute to team development activities including identifying and driving opportunities for process improvement.
- Working in a fast-paced environment
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:
It would be ideal if you were a qualified accountant and had experience in:
- You'll be a qualified accountant or part-qualified accountant with significant experience.
- Intellectual curiosity and analytical ability.
- Self-starter attitude and comfortable dealing with ambiguity and working at pace.
- Ability to form positive relationships with stakeholders.
- Experience using Planning Analytics desirable.
- Good knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint including how to effectively present financial and written information in a persuasive way.
- Acts in accordance with the Group’s values and contributes to sit within our organisation.
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
- 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.
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.
