End Date
Monday 03 February 2025
Salary Range
£62,874 - £69,860
Flexible Working Options
Flexibility in when hours are worked, Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description
JOB TITLE: Finance Manager - Retail Planning & Stress Testing
SALARY: £62,874 - £69,860
HOURS: Full time
LOCATION(S): Halifax, Bristol, Cardiff & Leeds
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
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.
An exciting and unique opportunity has arisen to join the Retail Divisional Planning team to lead Executive insight for the largest Retail Banking Business in the UK.
We pride ourselves on continuing to build an outstanding planning and analysis team. We're looking to recruit a new team member with drive, curiosity and the ability to deliver an outstanding service.
This role is within the team that produces the consolidated Retail forecasts and leads the Stress Testing exercises, where you'll communicate key story points to Finance Directors. It offers a fantastic opportunity to build a deep understanding of Retail products, work closely with senior colleagues within finance, and use your skills to really make a difference!
You'll need an appetite to work in a fast paced and changing environment and be comfortable working under pressure while maintaining excellent analytical, presentational, verbal and non-verbal communication skills. You'll also need to be able to build strong relationships, work well in a team and deliver through others.
Key responsibilities:
* Shape and deliver high quality Executive consolidated planning decks covering the Profit & Loss and Balance sheet, demonstrating advanced storytelling capability and ensuring accuracy and completeness, through each forecasting round.
* Co-ordinate and lead effectively the Stress Testing for Retail Finance, facing into a broad range of customers across Group, GCT, Finance Business Partners, and of course the Divisional Finance Director.
* Lead and deliver other planning activities including income waterfalls, margin evolution and other ad hoc analysis for Finance Directors and Divisional Finance Director, ensuring governance and control throughout.
* Demonstrate commercial understanding, sound judgment and a questioning attitude with the ability to manage multiple customers, through the planning and stress testing cycles.
* Provide a pragmatic approach to problem solving and a desire to deliver solutions, which are essential to lead these activities.
* Actively develop the current stress testing process, to improve efficiency, output and enhance collaboration across the multiple functions.
* Embed the Group’s culture and vision through visible leadership, being a role model for the Group’s leadership behaviours.
What you’ll need
We're looking for a Finance professional with a proven record gained in a range of roles, ideally with experience of Financial Services. Plus, you'll need to have/be:
* Display strong leadership skills, comfortable taking ownership and leading through others, along with responsibility for their own work.
* Effective verbal and written communication skills, with a consistent track record in creating and sharing clear and tailored communications, at all levels of the organisation.
* Capability to influence - using compelling arguments to gain the support and dedication of others to drive forward actions.
* Experience of building and establishing positive relationships.
* Upbeat and pro-active approach with the ability to act on your own initiative.
* Aptitude to thrive in a fast-paced environment and under pressure, whilst delivering accurate outputs.
* Eager to learn and have a curious attitude, whilst enjoying being challenged by new opportunities that arise.
* Accounting qualification preferable (ACCA, CIMA, ACA)
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’re committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.
We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you’d like an adjustment to the recruitment process 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
If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch! We’d love to hear from you!
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.
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