Assistant Finance Manager – Financial Control & Reporting

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.

About this opportunity

This role sits within the Retail Financial Control & Reporting team in Group Finance Support (GFS) Yorkshire/Bristol, who are responsible for the financial control and reporting of subsidiary legal entities within Lloyds Banking Group.

Responsibilities (day to day tasks of the role) 

• Delivering the monthly EIR automated solutions for Consumer Lending and Consumer Relationships, focusing predominantly on Cards and Mortgages models [effectively spreading the costs/income of certain products over the determined life of that product].
• Delivering prescribed monthly management accounts and conducts trend analysis on actuals to provide assurance for Retail Finance products.
• Conducting research into actuals using a wide variety of existing processes and procedures to interpret data and identify possible trends.
• Implementing a robust control environment over inputs and outputs – developing standard methodology which aligns with audit requirements and rolling out across the reporting teams.
• Building a wide network of contacts across Finance to better understand the customer transaction journey through to ledger to enable swift resolution to ledger investigations and aid collaboration.
• Proactively identifying improvements to existing processes, systems and procedures, including participating in debrief meetings and supporting continuous improvement initiatives.
• 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 

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:

• 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;
• Strong analytical skills and a good attention to detail. EIR is an important process within the team and requires Governance controls, SOX testing and is looked at in detail by the auditors. As such, candidates must be confident in communicating their understanding and the controls in place to key stakeholders;
• Passion for Financial control;
• Strong stakeholder management;
• Team collaborator.

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 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

This is a once in a career opportunity to help shape your future as well as ours. Join us and grow with purpose.

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.