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SalaryFriday 15 March 2024
Salary Range
£80,206 - £94,360
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Flexibility in when hours are worked, Hybrid Working, Job Share, Reduced Hours
Job Description Summary
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Group Finance Support Senior Manager (FTC)
SALARY: £78,634 - £92,510
LOCATION(S): Edinburgh
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in our Edinburgh office
About this opportunity
We have an opportunity for a Senior Finance professional to join our team in Edinburgh in a 12 month contract. You’ll join us in Group Finance Support (GFS), a key function within the Finance community of Lloyds Banking Group. We’re a team of c.300 colleagues, with responsibilities including financial reporting and control, people and culture initiatives and strategy implementation.
The team is at the start of a significant Transformation journey, and you'll be part of influencing, designing and implementing Finance Transformation. You'll lead and develop a small team and as a Senior Manager, you’ll role model strong financial control behaviours; influence key senior partners and contribute to broader strategic direction and business decision making by providing insight, control and thought leadership.
Day to day you’ll be:
- Leading the operations of the team, including managing capacity, ensuring monthly and quarterly control and reporting deadlines are met.
- Ensuring completion of a number of subsidiary statutory accounts, liaising extensively with the Group’s external auditors.
- Co-ordinating the Group’s Legal Entity Financial Control framework.
- Interpreting and implementing financial accounting matters and transaction impacts.
- Providing SME knowledge and collaborating with the Platforms to support requirements & delivery of change programmes.
- Establishing effective relationships with partners, including presenting at senior level meetings.
- Leading on issue management, communicating and facilitating resolution.
- Actively contribute to the GFS extended leadership team by driving activity on one of our people pillars.
About 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. Including you.
What you’ll need
A qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) or have alternatively gained a similar level of expertise acquired through substantial experience in a finance function
- Excellent communicator, able to influence and articulate complex issues, building strong diverse working relationships across different parts of the Group.
- Passion for Financial control and reporting and questioning mindset.
- Experience of leading and developing a team.
- Strong background of delivery and driving continuous improvement against a constantly evolving landscape.
- Bring a problem-solving approach with the ability to challenge and constructively debate key issues.
- Works collaboratively with a diverse group of partners, utilising well-developed relationship 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
- 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.
