Senior Manager Invoice & Expenses Edinburgh, Scotland
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
Edinburgh, Scotland
67896 - 84870 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Thursday 25 May 2023
Salary Range
£67,896 - £84,870Agile Working Options
Job Description Summary
Are you ready to lead a team of dedicated colleagues to achieve great things?Group Finance Support are looking for secondment cover for a Senior Manager to lead the Invoicing & Expenses team based in Edinburgh. Responsible for the payment of over 20,000 invoices per month and owning the Group-wide colleague expenses process, you'll lead a team of around 30 colleagues to make timely and accurate payments to both suppliers and colleagues.
You'll be Helping Britain Prosper by ensuring our suppliers are paid promptly whilst protecting the bank with your operational risk knowledge and skills. The Invoicing & Expenses team processed over £5bn in payments last year and supported 27,000 colleagues who made an expense claim! This high profile role will give you exposure to senior colleagues in a number of business areas across the Group.
Job Description
Please note - This is a 12 month contract
What you'll be working on:
You'll lead and develop a large team (approx. 30 colleagues) and as a Senior Manager, you'll role model strong financial control behaviours; you'll be leading a team through coaching, feedback and mentoring. As part of the wider Group Finance Support management team, you'll be setting, tracking and delivering longer term strategic goals with a clear responsibility to drive improvements.
- Leading the operations of the team including managing capacity, ensuring daily/monthly deadlines are met, managing reconciliation issues and reporting deadlines are met
- Leading on issue management, communicating and facilitating resolution
- Providing SME knowledge and collaborating with the Value Streams/Platforms to support requirements & delivery of change programmes
- Establishing effective relationships with stakeholders including presenting at senior level meetings
- Operational risk oversight
- Leading a development focused team and demonstrating continuous learning and self-development.
You'll have oversight of the daily operational activity of the team ensuring risks are understood and that controls are effective.
We have a regulatory responsibility to publicly report our supplier payment metrics on a semi-annual basis and you'll lead this process from start to finish covering the data capture through to the Director approvals.
On top of this, there's an opportunity to actively develop and maintain a wide range of key, effective working relationships with business areas.
Who we're looking for:
- Must have strong leadership skills and be capable of leading a mixed grade department
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Highly organised, able to demonstrate excellent customer and relationship management
- Ability to positively influence others by demonstrating core values and behaviours
- Good understanding of operational risk
- A background in accounts payable would be desirable but not crucial.
So what can we offer you in return?
We're dedicated to giving you opportunities and support to develop you both professionally and personally to optimise your potential! As a new colleague to the team, you’ll join us on our journey to build a 21st century bank that reflects modern Britain and craft an inclusive culture where all colleagues feel encouraged and valued. We're also passionate about diversity and equal opportunity with industry recognition across gender, ethnicity, disability, LGBTQ+ and families. And, being disability positive, reasonable adjustments can be accommodated in our Recruitment process, just let us know.
We work in hybrid ways which involves spending at least two days per week or 40% of their time at one of our office sites.
You'll also receive;
- A competitive salary.
- A discretionary bonus.
- Private medical insurance.
- Pension contributions up to a maximum of 15% of your salary.
- Share plans.
- 30 days paid holiday each year, plus Bank Holidays.
If you're excited by this role please apply as we'd love to hear from you.
Together we’ll 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.
