JOB TITLE: Assistant Manager - Retail Financial Control and Reporting
SALARY: £43,803 - £48,670
HOURS: Full time
LOCATION(S): Newport and Bristol
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 and to become the best Financial Services provider for our customers. Through our brands, our Group has a relationship with just about every household and community in the UK. We underpin the lives of millions of individuals and businesses and play a key role in helping to build a growing UK economy.
You'll join us in Group Finance Support (GFS), a team of approximately 350 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, responsible for the financial control and reporting of subsidiary legal entities within Lloyds Banking Group. Within this team, we are largely responsible for Consumer Lending products including Credit cards, Personal Loans, and Mortgage 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.
Key responsibilities:
* 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;
* Proactively identifying improvements to existing processes, systems, and procedures, including taking 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;
* Developing personal capabilities using existing formal and informal training opportunities.
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;
* 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’re committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive, and perform at their best.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.
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
If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch! We’d love to hear from you!
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