End Date: Friday 29 November 2024
Salary Range: £42,120 - £46,800
Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working
Job Description Summary
Interpret complex processes and manage the efficient and effective production of high quality output and analysis, anticipating stakeholder needs.
Job Description
JOB TITLE: Assistant Finance Manager
SALARY: From £42,120
LOCATION(S): Bristol or Edinburgh
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in our Edinburgh office
About this opportunity
An exciting 9 month FTC/ secondment opportunity has arisen for a motivated individual to join the Commercial Banking Cost Centre of Excellence. The purpose of this role is to support and deliver insight, advice, and exercise control. Providing timely cost insight and equip key decision makers to utilise cost resources in the most valuable way using forward looking and historical financial information and analysis to support Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB) and Business & Commercial Banking (BCB) teams.
This is an exciting and varied role, which will enable you to thrive in a supportive, diverse & dynamic team with prospects to really develop your capabilities and career.
Key Responsibilities
* Reviewing of business area reporting, challenging where necessary and providing commentary and CoE analysis & insight
* Liaising with Business Partners (BPs) and Planning & Analysis Manager for information relating to movements and month end exceptions; produce the Flash and trigger required adjustments to be actioned by the Controls team
* Supporting BPs for key meetings if appropriate
* Communicating with BP and Control teams on non-standard assumptions, review accounting outputs during month end and challenge
* Supporting the analysis and communication of unexplained variances and non-standard business driven changes related to 4 Year Operating Plan / Quarterly and Monthly Rolling Forecast
* Supporting structure changes and provide guidance on the Restatement process
* Continuously promote a culture of Process Improvement within the team
What you’ll need
* Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Excel)
* PowerBI, SAP and TM1 experience
* Energetic, tenacious in the achievement of goals. Has a 'can / will do' approach and must be prepared to be hands on.
* A part qualified accountant or qualified by experience in a Finance environment.
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.
Benefits
* 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. 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.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
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