End Date
Friday 14 February 2025
Salary Range
£114,810 - £135,070
Flexible Working Options
Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description
JOB TITLE: 128385 Group Finance Support – Head of Accounting Operations Control & Reporting
SALARY: £114,810 - £135,070
LOCATION(S): Bristol
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the Bristol office
About this opportunity
This exciting role offers the opportunity to lead, build and motivate a team of circa 90 finance professionals, in the Accounting Operations Control & Reporting Team, partnering with the wider business and other parts of Finance to deliver a robust control environment. In this role, you’ll be responsible for driving an environment of curiosity, continuous improvement and automation initiatives to enhance efficiency and effectiveness within Accounting Operations.
Day to day you’ll be:
* Overseeing and leading the day-to-day operations to ensure accuracy, timeliness and compliance with internal SLAs and regulatory requirements.
* Leading the team to build and maintain accounting policies and procedures to ensure the integrity of operations and compliance with relevant accounting, regulatory and internal requirements.
* Responsible for ensuring robust risk management processes, including SOX and RCSA, are embedded within the team, providing a ‘no-surprises’, high quality Financial Control environment.
* Building out a reporting framework to enhance oversight and issue identification.
* Coordinating the daily, monthly and annual processes and associated reconciliations and analysis, ensuring balances are substantiated to appropriate standards.
* Ensuring compliance with the relevant consumer codes of practice such as PPP, continually driving better results.
* Driving and positively influencing key GFS partners including Divisional Finance Directors, Risk Partners, our external auditors and external suppliers.
What you’ll need
* A qualified accountant with significant PQE preferably in the financial services industry.
* Experienced leader with drive, energy and a growth mindset, who leads by example and has led a large team.
* Proficient in P2P, AR, reconciliation and controls processes and tools; combined with team leadership experience in this area.
* Ability to attract, inspire and lead a successful, diverse professional team actively managing performance to realize potential and retain talent.
* Strategic thinker, with a passion for creating and driving future transformation and continuous improvement within Finance teams.
* Strong Risk and Control understanding, including LBG RSCA and SOX framework; with an awareness of the key risks facing LBG Finance.
* Prior experience of leading through system, process or cultural change.
* Excellent communicator, able to influence and articulate complex issues at all levels across LBG, building strong diverse working relationships across different parts of the Group.
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.
Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.
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