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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Assistant Manager - Retail Financial Control and Reporting (12 Month FTC/Secondment)
SALARY: £43,803 - £48,670
LOCATION: Halifax, Bristol, Newport or Leeds
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

You'll join us in Group Finance Support (GFS), a team of c350 colleagues within the Finance Division, providing centralised support and expertise to the rest of Finance and the Business.

This role sits within the Retail & Insurance Financial Control & Reporting team in GFS, who are responsible for the financial control and reporting of subsidiary legal entities within Lloyds Banking Group. Within this team we are largely responsible for Consumer Relationship products including Savings, Current Accounts and Private Banking products.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and hardworking finance professional to support financial control and reporting activities for the monthly management and statutory reporting of Retail products, positively challenging current processes and encouraging a growth mindset across the team.

What will you be doing?

• Preparing a large number and wide range of manual Retail product journals to support the Retail monthly financial reporting;

• Providing support to team managers, specifically when organising and planning Month end deliverables;

• The candidate requires strong excel skills and continuous improvement mindset;

• Proactively identifying improvements to existing processes, systems and procedures, including taking the responsibility for the running of debrief meetings and supporting continuous improvement initiatives;

• Supporting the wider team to perform the month end process, including the monthly balance sheet reconciliation and substantiation process, including ARC certification and supporting the assurance of the ledger at month end;

• Supporting resolution of control issues or balance sheet breaks;

• Ensuring that a legal entity lens is applied to financial control activity;

• Collaborating closely with a large number of internal teams including stakeholders in Retail Finance, other GFS teams, external auditors and other third parties; and

• Developing personal capabilities using existing formal and informal training opportunities.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.

What you'll need

• Accountancy qualification/part qualified accountant or qualified by experience.

• Strong excel skills with experience of Financial systems and a curious mindset that will drive process improvements.

• Passion for Financial control.

• Team collaborator with strong stakeholder management.

• Risk and control understanding, including LBG RSCA and SOX framework knowledge advantageous.

• Desire to consistently improve the control environment through use of automation and AI tools.

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

We also offer a wide ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 28 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.