Assistant Finance Manager (Fixed Term Contract) Edinburgh, Scotland
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
Edinburgh, Scotland
41292 - 45880 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Wednesday 30 August 2023
Salary Range
£0 - £0Agile Working Options
Job Description Summary
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Assistant Finance Manager
LOCATION(S): Edinburgh
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site
About this opportunity
This role is a 12 month opportunity to support the Commercial Banking Financial Control team in Group Finance Support responsible for the financial control activity, reconciliation and basis of substantiation of data on a monthly basis.
You'll join us in Group Finance Support (GFS), a team of c600 colleagues within the Finance Division, providing centralised support and expertise to the rest of Finance and the Business.
Our ethos of Building The Best Team in Finance promotes a positive and empowered culture where you’ll enjoy a diverse, innovative and exciting place to work!
We’re looking for someone who can:
- Support the operations of the team including, ensuring regular deadlines are met, managing reconciliation issues and working with the wider Financial Control team to ensure that process work efficiently and in a controlled manner;
- Contribute to the month end process, including the monthly balance sheet reconciliation and substantiation process, including Integrity certification and the assurance of the ledger at month end;
- Take ownership of control issues or balance sheet breaks, ensuring that these are owned and remediating action plans are in place;
- Collaborate closely with a large number of internal teams including stakeholders in other GFS teams. In addition there will be extensive liaison with Divisional Business and Operations teams, Finance Platform colleagues and external auditors;
- Supervise, support and coach junior colleagues in their operational tasks and wider development
- Work 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;
- Develop personal capabilities using existing formal and informal training opportunities;
- Proactively identifying improvements to existing processes, systems and procedures, including the running of debrief meetings and driving continuous improvement initiatives;
Why Lloyds Banking Group
If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.
What you’ll need:
- Ideally you'll have an accountancy qualification (ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) or have alternatively gained a similar level of expertise acquired through experience in a finance function
- Process and Controls expertise with a passion for Financial control and questioning mindset;
- Strong background of delivery and driving continuous improvement against a constantly evolving landscape.
- Bring a problem-solving approach with excellent analytical and investigative skills.
- Works collaboratively with a diverse group of stakeholders, utilising well-developed relationship skills.
- Good communicator, excellent organisational ability and able to operate independently or as part of a team.
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 bonus award, subject to Group performance
- 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
Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.
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.
