Job description
End Date
Thursday 21 September 2023
Salary Range
£0 - £0Agile Working Options
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Assistant Finance Manager
SALARY: £41,292 - £45,880
LOCATION: Edinburgh
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
Are you resourceful and passionate about solving problems? Do you challenge the status quo and have a desire to improve processes?
We in Finance at Lloyds Banking Group are opening our next chapter. We’re hiring forward-thinking people that want to maximise their impact. We’re looking for those that proactively drive their development, have the ambition to succeed and wish to invest in their career.
The role sits in the Group Cost & Investment team within Group Finance and the responsibilities for the role will include:
The role sits in the Group Cost & Investment team within Group Finance and the responsibilities for the role will include:
- Undertaking financial control reconciliations in order to ensure the balance sheet is fully substantiated.
- Preparing journals to ensure that the final ledger position reflects an accurate position of the financials each month end.
- Producing Management Information Packs for key stakeholders to support their understanding of their numbers each month.
- Answering various ad hoc queries from key stakeholders including external audit, internal risk and Finance Business Partners.
- Supporting and developing more junior colleagues.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.
What you’ll need
- You'll be a finance professional who is either fully qualified or studying towards their qualification.
- Ability to prioritise effectively in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong analytical skills and the passion to contribute to the success of the function are something we'd genuinely want to see in any applicant.
- A desire to improve existing processes, systems, and procedures through continuously challenging what we do and how we do it.
- You’ll need to be delivery driven and show a passion for producing quality work at pace.
- You’ll work in a highly collaborative way to ensure the correct reporting and assist in the analysis and explanation behind the numbers.
And any experience of these would be really useful
- Working within the Financial Services industry.
- Experience of Microsoft 365 suite, specifically Excel
- Experience of using Finance Systems and software would be an advantage, or a proven ability to learn new systems in a short timescale.
- A self-starter, who is organised and has good attention to detail.
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
- 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous
- Parental leave policies
Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.
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.