Head of Retail & Insurance Financial Control and Reporting Bristol, England
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
Bristol, England
109285 - 128570 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Monday 02 October 2023
Salary Range
£109,285 - £128,570Agile Working Options
Job Description Summary
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Head of Retail & Insurance Financial Control and Reporting
SALARY: £109,285 - £128,570
LOCATION(S): Bristol
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site
About this opportunity
This exciting role offers the opportunity to lead, build and motivate a team of c.55 finance professionals, in the Retail & Insurance Financial Control and Reporting Team, partnering with Retail and Insurance Finance to deliver a robust control environment which gives confidence in reporting to your stakeholders.
You’ll join us in Group Finance Support (part of Group Finance Support & Finance Data & Analytics Office), a key function within the Finance community of LBG. We’re a team of c.300 colleagues, with responsibilities including financial reporting and control, people and culture initiatives and strategy implementation.
The team are at the start of a significant Transformation journey and you will be part of influencing, designing and implementing Finance Transformation over the next 5 years, both within Group Finance Support and beyond!
Key Accountabilities:
- Drive and positively influence key internal and external partners including Divisional Finance Directors, Risk Partners and our external auditors
- Provide challenge, insight and decision support to the Retail and Insurance Finance teams to improve business controls and performance
- Responsible for ensuring robust risk management processes, including SOX and RCSA, are embedded within the team, and provide a ‘no-surprises’, high quality Financial Control environment
- Own and be accountable in driving resolution of issues at pace, collaborating effectively across teams to get the best solution for LBG
- Lead the team to support Transformation, including leading and influencing the design and delivery into the key areas of activity
- Build, lead and develop a successful professional, resilient and driven Finance team.
- As a key member of the Leadership team, drive the cultural change to ensure that the team is well placed to deliver for now and for the future
About us:
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:
- Qualified finance professional with significant post qualification experience in control and management and statutory reporting
- Strong Risk and Control understanding, including LBG RSCA and SOX framework; with an awareness of the key risks facing LBG Finance
- Leader with drive, energy and a growth mindset, who leads by example
- Excellent communicator, able to influence and articulate complex issues at all levels across LBG, building strong diverse working relationships across different parts of the Group.
- Strategic thinker, with a passion for creating and driving future transformation and continuous improvement within Finance.
- Attract, inspire and lead a successful, diverse professional team actively managing performance to realise potential and retain talent.
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.
