Commercial Banking Finance Business Partner

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JOB TITLE: Commercial Banking Finance Business Partner

LOCATION(S): London

SALARY: £73,521 - £81,690

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in our London Office

About this opportunity

We have an opportunity for an experienced Finance Business Partner to join us in London. Our Business and Commercial Bank (BCB) serves the financial needs of small and medium sized businesses, and Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) serves the needs of large clients who have a strong link to the UK, both driven by the Groups purpose of Helping Britain Proposer and ensuring Sustainability and Strategic objectives are delivered.

The Commercial Bank (CB) portfolio Business partnering team sits within the wider CB Finance Business partnering community of c.40 Finance Business partners.

In this role you'll partner Senior stakeholders across the BCB & CIB business and finance, providing financial support to the Cash Management & Payments and Ringfenced Bank FX products, across all financial lines, working within a large and diverse business partnering community, supported by a senior manager.

Day to day you'll be;

• Building trusted relationships across business and finance.
• Building and leading regular and ad hoc financial performance updates, interpreting financials and challenging the business.
• Supporting the business in making strategic decisions around pricing, proposition and Investment.
• Using your curiosity to understand performance and build new analysis to help drive this forward.
• Forecasting and Planning to help set the direction of the business providing challenge to ensure we meet our financial commitments
• Collaborating with the wider FBP community to support key meetings such as the BCB Growth Forum and CIB Finance Resource Meeting.
• Building an in-depth knowledge on how a bank makes money, including Income, Costs, Capital and Funding & liquidity providing expert advice to the business.

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 with demonstrable post qualified experience working in financial services.
• Experience in Business partnering and challenging / influencing Senior Stakeholders to drive business performance forwards.
• Experience in Financial Forecasting and Planning.
• Understanding of Funds Transfer Pricing, and the linkage between Balances, PnL.
• Ability to interpret performance and clearly communicate key stories and messages to the business.
• Agility and strong prioritisation skills to manage the demands of the business.
• A curiosity to learn about the business, performance and our processes to deliver insight, control and courage to challenge.
• A constant desire to improve the way we do things and strive to change.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, and build 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 ourrecruitment 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.