Senior Finance Manager

End Date
Friday 19 January 2024
Salary Range
£78,634 - £92,510
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Job Description
JOB TITLE:Senior Finance Manager
SALARY: £78,634 - £92,510
LOCATION: Edinburgh
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

About this opportunity:
The Group Finance Support team (GFS) has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Manager to join the team in Edinburgh.
We're a team of c400 colleagues within the Finance Division, providing centralised support and expertise to the rest of Finance and the Business.
You'll lead a team that prepares and submits consolidated Bank of England (BofE) Statistical Returns and a team that is responsible for the Intercompany monthly close process.
The BofE Statistical Return team is responsible for submitting FCA / PRA Regulatory and Retail Regulatory returns to UK Finance for the three main Banking Entities and Bank Holding Companies within the Group together with associated queries and governance.
The Intercompany team is a central financial control team who are responsible for ensuring that intercompany balances are recorded, identified, matched and eliminated to produce solo and consolidated reporting.

What you'll be doing:
You'll lead and develop a team (approx. 20 colleagues) and as a Senior Manager, you'll role model strong financial control behaviours; inspire and drive change and influence key senior stakeholders.

Accountabilities will include:

• Leading the operations of the team including managing capacity, ensuring daily/monthly/quarterly deadlines are met, managing reconciliation issue/s and reporting deadlines are met
• work alongside colleagues to ensure results are achieved within a robust control framework.
• Impact assess regulatory changes on BofE reporting.
• Proactively engage with relevant change projects to ensure delivery is maintained.
• Visibly lead, take ownership and be innovative in finding opportunities for improvement and redefininging Finance.
• Build and continuously develop a successful team, ensuring colleagues are provided with opportunities to develop and fulfil potential.
• Effectively handle relationships with key internal partners
• Actively participate in the Group Reporting & Insurance senior management team and the wider GFS leadership 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:

• A qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) or have alternatively gained a similar level of expertise acquired through substantial experience in a finance function
• Experience of leading 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 stakeholders, utilising well-developed relationship skills
• Ability to assess the impact of change on products, systems, processes and people.
• Experience in external reporting in a large group and BofE statistical reporting desirable but not essential

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.