JOB TITLE: Head of Product Control
SALARY: £124,653 - £181,610
LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, London
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
At Lloyds Banking Group, we have a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. What we do makes a genuine difference to families, businesses, and communities as we play a central role in creating a thriving UK economy. Using the Group Values, together we will deliver our strategic vision of Helping Britain Prosper. We do this by creating a more sustainable and inclusive future for people and businesses, shaping finance as a force for good!
Finance Valuation Control (FVC) supports the purpose by creating and maintaining effective control and governance over the valuation and disclosures associated with all Fair Value products held on the LGB balance sheet. This involves daily reporting of profit and loss, verifying prices independently, and overseeing core valuation meetings with internal and external customers.
The Head of Product Control is responsible for coordinating a team of technical finance specialists. They are in charge of leading all aspects of the daily P&L production for both the trading desks and treasury desks of LBG. They report to the Finance Director for Finance Valuation Control. Using your keen eye for detail and strong technical knowledge you'll lead a team that brings together, interprets, and analyses multiple streams of financial information to calculate, explain and provide commentary on all daily P&L associated with a busy trading desk. You will also represent the function at senior internal and external meetings discussing daily P&L and trading controls.
The role is a Key Leadership role within FVC, requiring strong leadership skills to actively support and contribute to the delivery of the Group and FVC strategy. This includes shaping operating models, influencing important team members, and contributing to planning and business decision-making by providing insight, control and thought leadership.
Day to day, you will:
* Being the trusted advisor to senior stakeholders for all product control activities, controls, and practices;
* Owning the production of daily P&Ls and explaining movements whilst maintaining outstanding levels of documentation and governance
* Using your expertise in technical accounting, valuation methodologies, and industry standard processes for product control to craft the future vision of FVC.
* Leading on the support of business process reviews across FVC.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.
What you'll need:
* We are looking for a qualified accountant who has demonstrated their expertise through a diverse range of senior roles in the banking and financial services industry;
* The ideal candidate should possess significant experience in traded products, valuation methodologies, and daily P&L production / explanation. This should include expertise in Fixed Income, Credit, xVA, and medium- and short-term Funding.
* The ability to develop strong working relationships and influence at senior levels internally and externally; and
* Proven leadership skills, with a track record of managing and leading successful teams; and
* An inquisitive personality with a desire to challenge how we do things
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
* 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.
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