controller Edinburgh, Scotland
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
Edinburgh, Scotland
28400 - 26980 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Friday 11 August 2023Salary Range
£26,980 - £28,400Agile Working Options
Job Description Summary
A full time role in our Product Control team ...Job Description
Lloyds Banking Group is the UK’s largest Digital, Retail and Commercial Bank with a focus on Helping Britain Recover. Our Finance teams sit at the heart of the organisation. Group Finance Support (GFS) is a team of c600 colleagues within the Finance Division (c2600) with responsibility for the core platforms, processes, financial reporting and controls for Finance. It also supports the Finance through provision of Divisional responsibilities, People & Culture initiatives, Systems & Data capabilities and Strategy development.
Product Control
The Product Control team is a control function responsible for the production of the daily/weekly P&L across the suite of Commercial Banking and Treasury products. This includes providing analysis of the P&L at the appropriate level of granularity and ensuring appropriate controls are in place around the completeness, accuracy and presentation of reserves.
Product Control is a team culture and you're expected to work effectively as part of the wider team, helping even out workload, collaborating to solve problems and sharing knowledge. There are always new issues to investigate and resolve, starting every single day with a desire to learn and improve is critical for success in role.
This is an exciting opportunity for a Band C role within Product Control. The successful candidate will become a member of the Trading Book team, an agile and supportive team with a desire to further all of its colleagues development goals, via learning opportunities, knowledge sharing and cross training. The successful candidate will be actively involved in managing the day to day operation of the team, particularly the daily P&L and monthly deliverables and adhoc project work.
Overview of the role
- May have or be keen to commence studying towards a professional finance qualification
- Have keen interest in markets
- Develop an understanding of relevant business systems, along with practical understanding of financial systems and processes
- Ability to use and manipulate spread sheets, produce formatted charts and use sophisticated formulae and pivot tables
- Customer focus in line with SLA
- Develop or have an awareness of market and industry environment (commercial awareness)
- Ability to plan, coordinate and prioritise workload
- Good interpersonal skills
- Presentation skills
- Ability to implement change
Capabilities
- Hard working
- Team player
- Enthusiastic
- Keen to learn
Who we are looking for
- Actively demonstrate core Lloyds Banking Group values and behaviours
- Support the implementation of robust processes aligned to business objectives, recommending improvements where appropriate. Minimising operational risks using judgement to determine where issues require partner concern
- Establish and build relationships with partners to support the provision of quality and timely information and analysis to advise business decisions
- Participate in Resource Sharing, demonstrating collaboration and teamwork across the department, support and drive continuous improvement in behaviours and processes
And in return:
Offering you both opportunity and profile - we'll provide you with a diverse, energising and lively environment that focuses on equal opportunity and real career progression. We'll take your personal and professional development very seriously and enable you to make a genuine difference to millions throughout your career with us.
Lloyds Banking Group is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve, and to building an inclusive environment where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit.
We're an equal opportunity employer and deeply value diversity within our organisation. We’re adopting collaborative, agile ways of working, to help us deliver the best outcomes for our colleagues, customers and businesses.
We've gained industry recognition including Stonewall Top 100 Employer, Top 30 Employer for Working Families, Gold Standard 2014 from the Business Disability Forum and Top 50 Employer for Women.
So if you have the skills we’re looking for, we’d love to hear from you!
Together we make it possible!
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.
