Assistant Finance Manager (9 Month FTC) Bristol, England
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
Bristol, England
41292 - 45880 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Monday 11 September 2023
Salary Range
£41,292 - £45,880Agile Working Options
Job Description Summary
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Assistant Finance Manager
SALARY: £41,292 - £45,880
LOCATION(S): Bristol Harbourside
HOURS: Full time (9 month Secondment/FTC)
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site
About this opportunity:
You'll join us in Group Finance Support (GFS), a team of c300 colleagues within the Finance Division, providing centralised support and expertise to the rest of Finance and the Business.
This role sits within the Insurance Financial Control team in Group Finance Support, who are responsible for the financial control activity, primarily reconciliation and Basis of Substantiation of Finance data, within Lloyds Banking Group.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and hardworking candidate to provide efficiencies and improve upon a number of source system and other reconciliation and financial control processes.
What you'll be doing:
- Improving the current reconciliation landscape within the IFC team driving efficiencies and better ways of working through simplification;
- The candidate requires strong excel and PI skills to drive efficiencies quickly in the team
- Taking ownership of control issues or balance sheet breaks, ensuring that these are owned and remediating action plans are in place;
- Collaborating closely with a large number of internal teams including stakeholders other GFS and IP&I Finance teams. In addition there will be extensive liaison with Divisional Business and Operations teams, Finance Platform colleagues and external auditors;
- Taking the responsibility for the running debrief meetings, driving continuous improvement initiatives which will create efficiencies within the IFC team but also downstream Reporting teams.
- Working with Finance Platform, and other Change teams to ensure that Financial Control matters are considered in Transformation, including managing the ongoing change impact on source system reconciliations;
- Developing personal capabilities using existing formal and informal training opportunities;
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:
- Accountancy qualification/part qualified accountant or qualified by experience
- Strong excel skills and a curious mindset that will drive process improvements;
- Passion for Financial control;
- LBG Systems knowledge;
- Strong stakeholder management;
- Team player
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 underrepresented 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%
- A discretionary annual performance related bonus scheme
- 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.
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.
