Finance Manager (FTC) Edinburgh, Scotland
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
Edinburgh, Scotland
61641 - 68490 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Friday 15 September 2023
Salary Range
£61,641 - £68,490Agile Working Options
Job Description Summary
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Finance Manager (FTC)
SALARY: £61,641 - £68,490
LOCATION(S): Edinburgh
HOURS: Full Time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site
About this opportunity
An exciting opportunity to join our Cost Transfer Charging (CTC) Costs team within Group Change Management, as a Finance Manager. Our team are responsible for allocating the Group’s costs to the income generating divisions, (Retail, Commercial Banking and Insurance). The CTC process is an integral part of the Group’s reporting, and its impact is far reaching across the group.
As a Finance Manager within our team, you'll take ownership and accountability for:
- Providing support to Finance and COO partners:
- Delivering reporting, valuable analysis, cost drivers insight and expertise
- Articulating the story behind cost movements to senior partners
- Allocating the Group’s indirect costs to divisions in an accurate, fair and transparent manner
- Actively assist and empower our junior colleagues to assist in the creation of a hard-working and engaged team to achieve objectives and deliver above expectations
In addition, your key responsibilities will include undertaking all CTC Controls activities including but not limited to:
- Producing monthly reporting, including variance analysis and ability to ‘tell the story’
- Engaging senior partners, including Divisional Finance and COO teams
- Applying strong financial control across reporting, incl. system controls in TM1 & GDRS
- Driving forward the Finance ‘Keeping It Simple’ agenda – the CTC team is constantly looking to improve and automate processes
- Keeping up to date with business changes and restructures and ensure that the CTC allocation methodology reflects underlying costs and drivers
- Processing and reviewing large volumes of data and turn into meaningful analysis
- Leading or mentoring a small number of colleagues
About us:
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:
- Qualified accountant or qualified by experience.
- Having positive relationship leadership skills, with the ability to build networks, challenge, influence and agree actions at a senior level.
- Having strong intellectual and analytical ability, with attention to detail to ensure very high standards of information integrity
- Having ability to ensure robust and accurate processes are put in place, controlled, and continuously improved
- Having knowledge of and interest in the overall Group cost strategy and the themes that are shaping it
- Having strong understanding of market and banking/financial services industry environment (commercial awareness)
- Having robust knowledge of Finance systems used, Excel, PowerPoint and TM1
- Having excellent interpersonal and relationship management skills
- Having self-motivation & a proactive approach, bringing innovation to problem solving
- Continuously promote a culture of process improvement within the 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
- 30 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.
