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SalaryMonday 04 March 2024
Salary Range
£62,874 - £69,860
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Flexibility in when hours are worked, Hybrid Working, Job Share, Reduced Hours
Job Description Summary
This is a 12 Month fixed term contract opportunity.
Job Description
JOB TITLE: Strategic Finance Business Partner
SALARY: £61,641 - £81,690 (pro-rated & location dependant)
LOCATION(S): Bristol or London
HOURS: Part time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% of your time in either our Bristol (Harbourside) or London (25 Gresham Street) office.
About this opportunity
Central Finance is the Finance Business Partner to the Group, helping to deliver a safe and successful business. Responsible for Group level reporting to internal and external audiences, including risk and control and performance management, the team focuses on cost and investment support, as well as conduct and impairment.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a team who are guiding and advising a number of areas of our business as they develop Products and propositions to meet customer needs. The role focuses on supporting progress against 2 of our key market commitments which are focused on customer needs and efficiency.
What you'll be doing
The team includes Finance Business Partners who support individual product areas or customer outcomes. This role works across the ‘platforms’, guiding to a consistent approach and interpreting monthly results and forecasts. Given the strategic subject matter, the thinking and outputs are used by a number of key customers including the Chief Information Officers and the Divisional Finance Director. The role includes an element of co-ordination but is increasingly focused on interpreting the numbers.
Additional elements of the role are:-
- Engaging with the Centres of Excellence, improving the flow of communication and the standards of inputs/outputs
- Linking in with the Retail Finance team to ensure that we have a complete and accurate set of benefits numbers
- Helping the Platform Partners to influence forward forecasts
- Creating the monthly storyboard around the two key priorities
- Embedding the Group’s culture and vision, being a role model for the Group’s leadership behaviours
- Making an impactful contribution to the development and objectives of the team
About Lloyds Banking Group
We’re an innovative, fast-paced business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. We empower our people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.
What you'll need
- To be an active, constructive and engaged member of a purpose driven team
- Prior experience of Finance Business Partnering, influencing and driving improvement in Business results
- Able to interact with customers at all levels across Finance and Business teams
- To listen, join the dots and summarise the story
- To challenge constructively and help to produce better quality outputs and outcomes
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.
